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8/3/2012

Germans, Speak German!

Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA, Glasgow

Germans, Speak German!

curated by Mother Tongue

Featuring works by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, John Akomfrah and Meriç Algün Ringborg, Germans, Speak German! will present an exploration of current migration issues, such as the border zone, the state of nationalism in Europe today and the personal endurance of physical uncertainty in light of increasing levels of bureaucracy.

The exhibition will focus on those who have remained (voluntarily or otherwise) in their home country, taking the German notion of heimat as an initial reference point. An indefinable and largely untranslatable concept, heimat is concerned with the homeland, a world within another, which binds a person to a specific place by birth, childhood, lineage and language.

Germans, Speak German! has been curated by Mother Tongue, a research-led curatorial project initiated in 2009 by Tiffany Boyle and Jessica Carden, in response to individual periods of investigation in northern Scandinavia and West Africa.

Opening: Friday 9 March, 6 - 8pm

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Mono Lake

Featuring Super 8 film footage and Instamatic slide images of artists Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt as they visited California's Mono Lake in July 1968, this piece was edited by Holt in 2004. Mono Lake candidly captures the young artists as they explore the haunting landscape of one of the oldest and most distinctive lakes in North America.

The film is a document of a unique natural environment, a 'home movie' of the artists' road trip, and an intimate view of three seminal figures in the earth art movement as they interact with the Western landscapes that are so central to their work.

Robert Smithson is recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Among his most important and well known works are Spiral Jetty (1970), a monumental earthwork located in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and Partially Buried Woodshed (1970) at Kent State University in Ohio. Robert Smithson died in 1973.

A pioneer of earthworks and public art, Nancy Holt has also worked in sculpture, installation, film, video and photography for over three decades. She is best known for her large-scale environmental sculptural works, including Sun Tunnels in northern Utah and Dark Star Park in Arlington, Virginia. Nancy Holt lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.

Text used with permission by Electronic Arts Intermix. From EAI Online Catalogue: www.eai.org

Press contact:
Clare Harris 07957 652701 press@cca-glasgow.com

Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admission free

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