23 May
2022
Time:
17:30–18:30
Location:
Zoom
Themes:

SoFA Monday Talks

GSA Sustainability and SoFA present a new artist and curator talk series for Semester 2. The short lunchtime talks will be held Mondays at 13:00 over zoom and are open to all departments.

This series platforms a variety of voices both from Glasgow and abroad and takes the lead from student speaker suggestions. Talks will cover topics ranging from migration, decolonisation and embodied histories of land, healing and resistance, as well as blockchain and the post-digital.

Throughout this multimedia programme a variety of practices will be explored including artist moving image, photography, generative art, sound, installation, collage, dance, creative DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) and performance.

From Monday 24 January to 23 May.

23 May 5.30pm, Rhea Myers, via Zoom

Rhea Myers takes the idea of ‘readymades’ and converts digital objects into publicly available source files, as a means of questioning creative production, valuation and authenticity. ‘Certificate of Inauthenticity’ uses the digital token as a means of questioning the fetishisation of ownership that NFT culture is fostering in the art market. Rhea has been creating art using advanced digital blockchain technologies since 2013. Her work is informed by a sophisticated understanding both of programming and advanced computation and of the cultural place of digital creativity and a tech-optimist discourse.

9 May 5.30pm Barnes Lecture Theatre: No booking required, but we will restrict numbers to 50% capacity, 50 people.

GSA Sustainability and SoFA Fine Art Photography present the last month of artist talks for Semester 2. We are pleased to present our first IRL talk, with the rescheduled presentation by Tako Taal.

Tako Taal

Originally from Wales, Tako Taal is an artist and programmer based in Glasgow. At stake in her artistic practice are the psychic structures of colonial relations, and the question of how vivid they remain in the present. Taal’s practice often considers the paradoxes of black subjectivities, and her artistic practice evokes cited, spectral and physical bodies to undermine history, destabilise images and disrupt ideas around identity.

Taal has recently shown at Dundee Contemporary Arts in her first solo show at a major UK institution entitled, At the shore, everything touches. The exhibition comprised a new video and sound installation and explores the changing nature of Taal’s family home village in The Gambia – Juffureh.

Previous Talks

25 April
Lunga Ntila
Join each Monday at 1pm via this Zoom link

One of South Africa’s brightest emerging fine artists, the art world, the media and fans are all drawn to Lunga Ntila’s delicate and distorted view of the world.

14 March
Anne Duffau

Anne Duffau is a curator, cultural producer and founder of nomadic arts platform A —- Z, which aims to challenge preconceived ideas on race, gender identities and historical power relationships. Last year Duffau collaborated on the series Transmissions with Tai Shani and Hana Noorali. Duffau was a member of audiovisual electronic group Patten who released with Warp Records and is currently a Senior Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.

7 March
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler is a Glasgow based artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician. Fowler is a Derrick Jarmen Awardee and Turner Prize Nominee. Luke’s work reimagines conventional approaches to biographical and documentary filmmaking and has included subjects such as RD Laing and Cornelius Cardew. Fowler’s work also includes experimental sound making, live performance and sound sculpture. He has exhibited internationally and is represented by Modern Institute, Glasgow.

28 February
Anna Martine Whitehead
Embodied epistemologies of black queer time

14 February
No talk – GSA closed

7 February
Sofia Garcia
Generative art, blockchain, sustainability

31 January
Sarah Khan

Sarah Khan is an artist and writer whose practice spans moving image, text, sound and performance. Drawing on her lived experience, theory and collective memory, she explores the ways in which displacement and liminality are projected upon the ‘othered’ body. She is interested in the constant shift and disruption of space that exists between the periphery and centre and how this is navigated in environments that uphold homogeneity. In both her daily life and practice, she is committed to undoing Western constructs of binary logic and relearning through a decolonial praxis
Sarah is a co-founder of the collective Baesianz which centres artists of Asian heritage from all around the world through publishing, radio shows, artist talks and film screenings.

24 January
Iman Tajik

Iman Tajik is an Iranian artist and photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. His work is anchored in a strong social interest and demonstrates an effort to make work that is a critical tool connected to international movements for social change. Tajik’s work addresses issues of contemporary conditions of life with a particular focus on migration and globalisation – thereby bridging the gap between art and activism, to create work as a form of socio-political currency, addressing power structures.

Image: Luke Fowler, 7 March