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7 - 16 June 2019 FESTIVAL GUIDE
Introduction Useful
Festival Key Information
Booking:
All of the Look Again Festival talks, events and
workshops are FREE. but some may require you
Welcome to Look Again Festival 2019. At the W OR M we are delighted to show new to book a place. please visit: www.eventbrite.
work from Macedonia, exploring culture, politics com or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com and
In this, our fifth year, we have asked our and ‘in-betweenness’. The Anatomy Rooms family friendly indoors search for your chosen event.
commissioned artists to think about the theme opens its doors to show work by residents, as wheelchair
of New Narratives, emboldening them to enter well as collective Tendency Towards in the new outside Contact:
access
new territory and respond to our fast changing project room, while in the dissection room you open for late If you have any queries or would like more info
world. As always Look Again presents ambitious can find the largest Aberdeen Etsy Summer toilets please contact us via social media or email:
night launch
creative projects that think carefully about place Showcase to date. @lookagainfest
and catalyse collaboration, participation and lookagain@rgu.ac.uk
experiences that allow us to look at our city with Aberdeen Market becomes a temporary gallery
fresh eyes. with a new project by Steve Smith and Ian Grosz Travel:
documenting the fragile micro-community within First Bus - no. 1/2 (every 10mins)
For her first project in Scotland, Morag its walls, and Craig Barrowman returns with a Aberdeen City Centre - RGU, Gray’s School of Art
Myerscough’s new work puts Aberdeen at Mobile Ploposal Machine that will pop up across
the centre of her family narrative, creating an the city. Also, make sure you visit Gray’s School
outpouring of love for the city, with wonderful of Art for the annual Degree Show, opening on
new poetry by Jo Gilbert. John Walter’s
extraordinary virtual reality work in Marischal
the 15th. Festival Info Late Night Launch
Quad rewrites his maximalist approach in This year’s Look Again Festival lasts longer
dizzying, digital form. Writer Shane Strachan and extends further than ever before, showing See the city through fresh eyes and join us for
combines film, poetry, performance and fashion, Aberdeen at its engagingly creative best. A huge a late night viewing of our festival programme
to re-invent his own work and that of designer thanks to all those taking part and who have across the city on 6 June.
Bill Gibb, while Jacqueline Donachie’s ‘Temple’ supported us so generously.
enjoys a new context in the centre of the city. Exhibitions and public artworks will be open
The Look Again Team from 6.30 - 8.30pm as part of our launch night
Seed Fund, a central part of our programme, and stick around for the launch party from 9pm
supports new work by artists with strong at Brewdog, Castlegate.
connections to the north east. Zloto, Studio We would like to thank all those who have helped
N_Name, Artists’ Tuck Shop and Kirsty Russell to make the festival possible, in particular our
reflect on borders, openness and precarity, while funders Creative Scotland, Aberdeen City Council
encouraging some seriously playful interactions. and Robert Gordon University. Supermundane (aka Rob Lowe), Super Aberdeen - Look Again
Festival 2018 Launch Party
The recently re-opened Music Hall is an Find out more information about Look Again on
important part of Look Again this year, hosting the website and our social media channels:
This year’s festival lasts longer and extends
the launch, a new work by Design and Code that
further than ever before, and everything is FREE!
will animate the digital screen, and exhibitions by www.lookagainaberdeen.co.uk
Betty Fraser Myerscough, Morag Myerscough’s #lookagain2019 // @lookagainfest
Weekend one and Weekend two are packed
mother and Supermundane (aka Rob Lowe).
full of activity, with all our installations and
exhibitions open to the public, talks and
performances taking place and opportunities
galore to encounter brilliant mobile artworks
that are moving around the city.
Look Again Team Thank you Midweek we have events at the Belmont
Filmhouse Kino Bar, including talks with Look Put on your dancing shoes and join us to
Sally Reaper, Co-Director Again artists, our Creative Chit-Chat night and celebrate the launch of Look Again Festival
Hilary Nicoll, Co-Director To our Look Again 2019 don’t miss the launch of Etsy Aberdeen Summer 2019!
Claire Bruce, Look Again Producer artists & designers, Showcase at The Anatomy Rooms. Exhibitions
Libby Curtis, Look Again Chair volunteers, interns, advisors, funders, at The Music Hall, W OR M, Aberdeen Market 6 June
Laura Reilly, Look Again Assistant Producer art partners, venues, local businesses, Village and in the Castlegate are open all week 21.00 - 00.00
Anthea Saludades, Social Media Co-ordinator RGU staff & students, individuals, during festival hours. Brewdog Castlegate (downstairs)
Meghan Dorran, Design & Event Intern family & friends. 1-5 Union Street // AB11 5BU
1 2
Weekend ONE
Festival Launch Night // p.2 I Know It’s Over // p.20
The Fourth Wall // p.5 In Between States // p.21
Love at First Sight // p.7 LOVEAND... // p.22
The Bill Gibb Line // p.9 Am I Using Material Or Is Material Using Me? // p.23
Trading Faces // p.11 This Pernicious Nuisance // p.23
Artists’ Tuck Shop // p.13 Talk - Morag Myerscough + Jo Gilbert + Eliza Williams // p.25
Caro&Karo Taxi // p.13 Talk - John Walter + Eliza Williams // p.25
The Radical Caterpillars // p.14 Talk - Jacqueline Donachie + Artists’ Tuck Shop +
Threshold(s) // p.14 Craig Barrowman // p.25
The Temple of Jackie // p.15 Talk - Jon Blackwood + Zloto + Ivana Sidzimovska // p.25
Glisk // p.16 Spoken Word + Comedy + Music // p.26
Aberdeen Follies // p.17 Look Inside Collective - Workshop // p.27
Mobile Ploposal Machine // p.19 (UN)WELL // p.27
Betty Fraser Myerscough // p.20 Listen Again - fringe festival // p.27
Midweek
day night
Love at First Sight // p.7 Talk - Shane Strachan + Josie Steed // p.25
Trading Faces // p.11 Look Again Creative Chit-Chat // p.26
Glisk // p.16 Talk - Steve Smith + Olivia Wilson // p.25
Betty Fraser Myerscough // p.20 Etsy Aberdeen - Summer Showcase Launch Night // p.24
I Know It’s Over // p.20 Gray’s Degree Show - Opening Night // p.29
In Between States // p.21
Weekend TWO
Festival Locations
The Fourth Wall // p.5 Betty Fraser Myerscough // p.20
Love at First Sight // p.7 I Know it’s Over // p.20
The Bill Gibb Line // p.9 In Between States // p.21
Trading Faces // p.11 LOVEAND... // p.22
Artists’ Tuck Shop // p.13 Etsy Aberdeen - Summer Showcase // p.24
Caro&Karo Taxi // p.13 Spoken Word + Comedy + Music // p.26
The Radical Caterpillars // p.14 Gray’s: 20 Years On // p.26
Threshold(s) // p.14 (UN)WELL // p.27
The Temple of Jackie // p.15 Listen Again - fringe festival // p.27
Glisk // p.16 The Anatomy Rooms - Open House Weekender // p.28
Aberdeen Follies // p.17 The Antomy Rooms - Workshops // p.28
Mobile Ploposal Machine // p.19 Gray’s Degree Show // p.29
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The Fourth Wall
John Walter
The Fourth Wall by John Walter is a 360° immersive that Virtual Reality provides and the way that all John Walter is a visual artist based in
video exhibited in Virtual Reality. His first VR work, dimensions of the virtual space are interrogated as London. He curated Shonky: The Aesthetics
it builds on his experience of working in video, pictorial rather than through the more familiar gaming of Awkwardness for Hayward Gallery Touring
animation, computer-aided design, collage, painting or narrative interface. Exhibitions, which travelled from The MAC in
and sculpture but abbreviates these approaches into Belfast to DCA Dundee and Bury Art Museum.
a completely new kind of maximalist aesthetic by The Fourth Wall innovates how VR is exhibited. His project Alien Sex Club (2015) was featured
compressing and hybridising them. Walter has customised cable-free Oculus Go as part of Somewhere in Between at The
headsets by mounting masks on them transforming Wellcome Collection, London (2018) and
The extraordinary Marischal College is the setting for viewers into performers as well. Chaperones wear as part of Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender
The Fourth Wall. It features within the composition, colourful tabards that feature images from the VR and and Identity at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
recurring as a leitmotif that changes scale and vinyl hotspots to demarcate zones for the VR to take (2017). His diverse artistic practice includes
character over time much like a melody varies within place – bridging the gap between the fictional world collaborating with scientists including Prof
a song. Alongside historical references such as the of the VR and the real world outside of it. Walter says Greg Towers (UCL) on CAPSID (2018), which
obelisk that once stood in the quad, and Aberdeen as of The Fourth Wall “I’ve left it raw to make it more used the molecular workings of HIV to
the site of a typhoid outbreak in the 1960s, traced to visceral and more like being inside a video, a painting address broader social and cultural questions.
Fray Bentos corned beef, images and slogans from or a collage. Video wipes, fades and transitions wrap
John’s repertoire are conjoined in a complex adaptive around you. You fly over Marischal Collage quad one www.johnwalter.net
system of saturated colour that creates a dizzying minute and the next you’re in it. Rapid shifts in scale and @john___walter
immersive experience of the site. texture that might be familiar on a screen are unusual
and fresh when experienced in VR.”
New songs, such as Heirloom Carrot, written and
performed by the artist link the diverse images
7-9 + 14-16 June Artist Talk - John Walter in
and ideas within the VR composition together
10.00 - 17.00 conversation with Eliza Williams,
and reflect on Walter’s ongoing interest in how
Age 8+ Editor at Creative Review
evolutionary virology can be used to think about
the spread of cultural forms such as the paisley Marischal College Quad Fri 7 June 17.30 (see page 25)
pattern. The experience of watching The Fourth Broad Street // AB10 1AB
Wall is hallucinatory, both because of the immersion
5 6
Love at First Sight Love at First Sight
Morag Myerscough
Iss wis nae chunce encounter, us
meetin at the Mercat Cross
baith in the throes o creative flows
music an fabric drawn igither
by the swirlin universe
een look fae you
turnt ma warld
game ower
fae at moment
ma hert’s fate wis sealed
an I kent in ma depths
ivry path aa could ivver tak
wid lead tae you
ma hame
ma north
ma athin.
Jo Gilbert
‘I want people to fall back in love with their own pavilion, part-stage, that encircles the Mercat Morag has been working with Northeast-based poet
place, go out and look at it as if it’s the first time Cross in the historic Castlegate, animating it with Jo Gilbert, who has written new poems in Doric
they have been there’ her signature super colourful work. that are incorporated into the structure. Jo also
collaborated with Aberdeen Multi Cultural Centre 7 - 16 June
Obsessed with ‘Belonging’, Morag Myerscough Love at First Sight puts Aberdeen firmly at the and these new works are powerfully emotional in 10.00 – 17:00
is fascinated by how colour, pattern and words centre of Myerscough’s family narrative. The their outpouring of love for the city.
can change urban environments and people’s journey north east has been an emotional Mercat Cross, Castlegate
perceptions of spaces into places. Her strong visual re-connection with the city where her parents In and around Love at First Sight you will also AB11 5BQ
approach is instantly recognisable, elevating every first met, in a chance encounter on the stairs of encounter a range of performances from the local
context in which it is placed and creating a sense an Aberdeen boarding house. This new work Aberdeen spoken word, comedy and music scenes,
of joy and belonging for all those who encounter it. references that pivotal moment and highlights curated by Jo Gilbert.
the traditional role of the Mercat Cross as a Artist Talk - Morag Myerscough
She often draws on shared cultural history and meeting point and place of exchange. Jo Gilbert is a writer and spoken word artist from + Jo Gilbert in conversation with
heritage, creating specific local responses for each Aberdeen. Jo won the StAnza slam 2018, the Eliza Williams, Editor at Creative
distinct audience that will see and experience the Love At First Sight has been hand painted by the all women poetry slam in 2017 and opened for Review.
work; creating community and building identity. community and we are indebted to the 30 hard American poet Neil Hilborn at the Lemon Tree. Her
working volunteers, without whom this project work has been published in Northwords Now and Thu 6 June 18.00 (see page 25)
For her first project in Scotland, Morag presents could not have been realised. the FWS new voices anthology 2018. Jo is currently
Love at First Sight, a large scale structure; part @moragmyerscough working on her first poetry collection.
7 8
The Bill Gibb Line
Shane Strachan
The Bill Gibb Line is a spoken-word film and
exhibition of new narratives across poetry and
fashion inspired by the life and work of the
Northeast-born fashion designer who was world
renowned in the 1970s.
It will centre around six new poems by writer-
performer Shane Strachan, each inspired by a
different fashion show across Gibb’s illustrious
and tumultuous career from the late 60s to the
mid-80s.
Supported by filmmaker Graeme Roger of
Wildbird, the film will feature a spoken word
performance by Shane along with new garments
created by 3rd-year Fashion and Textiles
students at Gray’s School of Art, all influenced by
Gibb’s diverse designs.
The exhibition will also feature the poems
digitally printed on textiles in the space,
alongside a new dress design by Gray’s students
Beth Coventry and Catherine Macdonald inspired
by drawings and pattern cuttings held at Robert
Gordon’s Art & Heritage Collections for Gibb’s
final 1985 fashion show, ‘The Bronze Age’.
Originally from Bill Gibb’s hometown of
Fraserburgh, Shane Strachan is a writer and
performer based in Aberdeen. His work for both
page and stage is concerned with the Northeast’s
relationship with the wider world, including his
work-in-progress novel inspired by Gibb’s life
and work for which he was awarded a Robert
Louis Stevenson Fellowship. He holds a PhD in
Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen.
www.shanestrachan.com
7-9 + 14-16 June
10.00 - 17.00
Look Again Project Space
32 St Andrew Street
AB25 1JA
6 June 19.00
Live Poetry performance
Look Again Project Space
9 10
Trading Faces -
Images and Stories from a Changing City
Steve Smith and Ian Grosz
Trading Faces aims to highlight the often-
overlooked space of Aberdeen Market Village
through the experience of traders who give the
space its own unique sense of place.
The Exhibition comprises large format Portrait
Images combined with an Audio Installation to
engage exhibition goers with the oral histories of the
market as a place of work and community. The work
itself sits within a social documentary framework that
will inform, educate, and enlighten exhibition goers.
The portraits and audio together create a sense of
discovery and surprise as personal and community
history is revealed within the extant market space
and its network of trade stalls and eating areas.
The exhibition aims to create an experience that 7 - 16 June
engages people with a city in transition, highlight 10.00 - 17.00
the challenges facing traders, and to celebrate the (closed Sundays)
space and the people that make up what the market
is today. Aberdeen Market Village
AB11 5NX
www.tradingfaces.org
11 12
Seed Fund The Radical Caterpillars
Studio N_Name
The year is 2019, and the city formerly known as
Look Again’s Seed Fund has supported new commissions by Artists’ Tuck Shop, Zloto, Studio N_Name and
Aberdeen is now recognised as Aberdabeedoo.
Kirsty Russell, all creative practitioners with strong links to the North East.
Frustrated with a string of bad decisions with great
consequences for their futures, young people
Using the theme of ‘New Narratives’ as a starting point, each creative practice has developed a project that
have seized power as part of a nationwide uprising
carefully considers public engagement, with outputs that range from film and sound, to interactive installation
that has seen the majority of the United Kingdom,
and artisan food.
including Westminster, fall into the control of our new
Government, the Radical Caterpillars, aged 3-16.
Freedom of movement is encouraged and humans
are openly invited to interact in a peaceful and
Artists’ Tuck Shop respectful manner despite the danger posed by the
Adult Resistance.
The Artists’ Tuck Shop is a mobile tuck shop trolley
serving up yummy snacks and nifty artworks made
All visitors are politely requested to report to a
by artists. It provides a platform for emerging/early
checkpoint to have their passports issued & stamped.
career artists to experiment with creating functional
These are also the pick up points for the new
artworks and delicious goodies with which to engage
Government Manifesto, which doubles as a colouring
more directly with the general public and generate
book, and visitors of all ages are encouraged to read
income from their creative practice. The tuck shop
and enjoy.
seeks to not only open up questions around the
sustainability of artistic careers and the financial
Studio N_Name have collaborated with Skene Square
vulnerability of artists, but to provide potential Artists: David McDiarmid / Jon Nicolson / Stuart Noble / 7-9 + 15-16 June
and Manor Park schools to produce slogans for
answers and solutions. Emma Rogers / Rachel Rogers / David Blyth / Shae Myles 10.00 - 17.00
propaganda posters, and contribute to the manifesto
for the Radical Caterpillars.
Seven artists have been commissioned to make new 7-9 + 15-16 June The Green // AB11 6PE
artworks and snacks to be stocked and sold on the 10.00 – 17.00
Artists’ Tuck Shop trolley, popping up at multiple
venues throughout Look Again. The project will help Travelling across Aberdeen City Centre:
the artists involved sustain their practices going Look Again Project Space / Bon Accord
forward while keeping you fuelled to explore the rest & St Nicholas / Marischal College /
of the festival. W OR M / The Anatomy Rooms Threshold(s)
Kirsty Russell
Kirsty Russell has produced a large-scale mat that
Caro&Karo Taxi will be installed in the city centre. The mat will
act as a threshold, welcoming visitors in to public
Zloto space in the city. It is an invitation to spend time,
and rest during the festival.
Caro&Karo Taxi is a multimedia project of a socially-
engaged nature, which consists of three main
Kirsty is concerned with support. Through her work
elements: an iconic classic car, video-works and
she offers a visual language to consider that which
interaction.
underpins and maintains. Her practice extends
into places of care, education and artist practice –
The project’s main character, the Polonez car which will
where she makes space, encourages and balances.
be presented under the nickname Caro, is a legendary
icon of European moto-nostalgia, irrational romanticism
Support Structures: a reading group:
and unfulfilled promises of prosperity. For this project it
On 16 June 11.00-12.00, Kirsty will host a reading
will become a pretext to discuss new perspectives on 7-9 + 15-16 June group on Threshold(s), a mat that has been
Scotland’s shifting relationships with Europe. 10.00 - 17.00 commissioned through the Seed Fund. This reading
Age 12+ group aims to grow a conversation surrounding 7-9 + 15-16 June
Sneaked to the UK right before Brexit, especially for 10.00 - 17.00
Flag down Caro from George Street support.
Look Again Festival Caro will be turned into a mobile
video gallery. Having obtained an interesting revamp, (outside Bon Accord // AB25 1HZ) and Aberdeen Town House
hop in for an alternative journey across Everyone is welcome to join, the selected
Caro will become a colourful adornment for the streets Broad Street // AB10 1AR
Aberdeen and the Festival. text will be shared here prior to the session:
of the granite City.
supportstructuresreadinggroup.tumblr.com
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The Temple of Jackie Glisk
Jacqueline Donachie Design and Code
Donachie is interested in the structures, platforms exhibited at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh Aberdeen based creative agency Design and Jo Gilbert’s poetry for Love at First Sight will
and spaces (both actual and conceptual) in 2017. Code bring their unique mix of creative and also feature, with the project creating a call and
and through which we construct and support technical expertise to the Music Hall screen with response in Doric along Union Street.
ourselves in the world. Using sculpture, Jacqueline Donachie is an award-winning Scottish a celebration of Doric dialect, synonymous with
installation, photography, film and drawing, her artist who has recently had solo shows at the our sense of identity in the Northeast. Take part and share your Doric phrases online at:
work is rooted in an exploration of individual, Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and the Gallery glisk.app
family and collective identity. of Modern Art in Glasgow. She lives and works in Glisk is a Doric word meaning ‘passing glance’
Glasgow. and now a new app that invites the public to www.designandcode.com
The Temple of Jackie is a converted mobile upload favourite Doric words and phrases - the
camping trailer, that has been used to play www.jacquelinedonachie.co.uk more obscure the better!
honky-tonk and country music, serve soup and
show films, and as a stand-alone sculpture. The Visit glisk.app to take part and share your love
light structure and cantilever design, easy to fold for the Northeast, or log on to vote for the phrase
up and tow, has a level of adaption and mobility you like the best. Winning texts will be brought
that appeals to the artist. to life on the big screen as animations that
deserve much more than a passing glance;
During Look Again Festival The Temple of Jackie see if you can spot yours!
will be animated by local DJ’s throughout
Weekend One + Weekend Two, including 2Day 7-9 + 15-16 June As well as input from the public, Design
Radio as part of Listen Again (see page 27). and Code have collaborated with Morag
Myerscough, using patterns from her Love at 7 - 30 June
10.00 – 17.00
First commissioned in 2011 by Radar at First Sight work in the Castlegate as inspiration.
Loughborough University, and was most recently The Music Hall
Broad Street // AB10 1AB
Union Street // AB10 1QS
15 16
Aberdeen Follies
Colourdeen and The LivingRoom are the results of a brief developed by Look Again that asked final year
Architecture and Architectural Technology students of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and
Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, to design and build temporary structures, or ‘Follies’, that
the public can interact with. These works have had research and development input from children at
Kaimhill Primary School and Bridge of Don Academy to help shape the final designs. The project has been
Supervised by Dr. Theo Dounas.
The LivingRoom
The LivingRoom provides a place
for human interaction, exchange of
stories/narratives, and a ‘public living
room’ within the city, where everyone
can feel at home.
Colourdeen Within The LivingRoom you are
invited to recycle your books,
swapping your pre-loved paperbacks,
Aberdeen is often perceived as a monotonous, and perhaps starting conversations
cloudy and rainy place, earning it the title of and meeting new friends.
‘Grey City’ or ‘Granite City’. What people may not
know is that Aberdeen is also the ‘Floral Capital of The LivingRoom literally embodies
Scotland’, awarded the Britain in Bloom Best City the Look Again Festival theme of
Award multiple times. Coloured flower displays ‘New Narratives’ through the action
sing out against greyscale tones, and plenty of of exchange and in aspects of the
colour can be found in the buildings themselves design. It is PEOPLE who create new
from the original stone or due to weathering. narratives; we are just giving them the
tools to do it.
This pavilion has been developed in appreciation
of the rain and the hidden colours of the city.
Hanging fabric and dense colour references 7 - 9 June
the elements, with the tones and silhouettes of 10.00 - 17.00
the local vernacular interpreting the different
seasons, times of day and other aspects of the Marischal Square
city. Broad Street // AB10 1BA
17 18Mobile Ploposal Machine
Betty Fraser Myerscough
Craig Barrowman
Look Again is delighted to show a working as a part-time lecturer
selection of work by Betty Fraser at Canterbury College of Art and
Myerscough. A skilled and prolific Chelsea School of Art and Design.
embroidery and textile artist, Fraser She continued to work as a textile
(Myerscough) taught for some artist producing wall hangings
time in the 1950’s at Gray’s School and pictures for exhibitions,
of Art before moving to London to both solo and in groups, and
continue her practice and settle produced commissions, selling
and raise a family. It was while work to Education Authorities, the
living in Aberdeen that she met Embroiderers Guild, Glasgow Art
her husband-to-be, the musician Gallery and to private collectors in
Henry Myerscough, a story which the UK, Europe and USA. She died
has inspired the installation Love in 2017.
at First Sight at the historic Mercat
Cross in the Castlegate by her
daughter Morag Myerscough.
Born in Scotland, she studied
7 - 30 June
at the Glasgow School of Art,
10.00 - 17.00
before working for 4 years at J P
Coats, Glasgow. She left industry
The Music Hall // AB10 1QS
to lead embroidery and weaving
Upper Gallery
at Gray’s, before moving south,
I know It’s Over
Rob Lowe (aka Supermundane)
The Mobile Ploposal Machine will roam the city communication and perception, particularly in
streets looking for people to generate ideas for community engagement and the politics of public This exhibition is another the lyrics of my favourite songs
spectacular new works of public art in Aberdeen. space. He has used mobile interactive sculpture in opportunity to enjoy the work of have memories (good and bad)
Using the self-contained, solar-powered, pop-up public projects to engage people in collaboratively Rob Lowe (aka Supermundane) attached to them.’ These images
creative workshop hidden within the giant head examining and exposing the power structures which following the installation of his were all made before giving them
of Aberdeen’s pre-eminent architect, Archibald govern behaviour in our shared places. wonderful Super Aberdeen public the lyrics and have no real link
Simpson, folk of all ages will be helped to create art work at Look Again last year. but whenever words and images
www.craigbarrowman.co.uk
scale models of their ideas from a range of are brought together something
traditional, hands-on materials. These models will be For I Know It’s Over, he has new is created. The words change
photographed and digitally manipulated to create considered the songs we think how the images are viewed and
posters which visualise the sculptures in various of when something concludes. connections (that are purely
locations around the city. ‘All things come to an end, coincidental) appear.
some abruptly, without warning, www.supermundane.com
This project aims to engage citizens in the process of others, seemingly infinite, their
developing new personal narratives in public spaces. ending so far ahead it is hard to 7 - 30 June
These intuitive, playful, temporary interventions even imagine,’ he says. Inspired 10.00 - 17.00
could perhaps function as a response to the by a Smiths’ song I Know It’s
seemingly opaque and arbitrary powers that shape Over connects his illustration The Music Hall // AB10 1QS
our cities. 7-9 + 14-16 June to his interest in music, image Lower Gallery
10.00 - 17.00 titled with a lyric that means ------------------------------
Craig Barrowman is a multimedia artist working something to him. ‘Music has Super Aberdeen 2018
with sculpture and performance to explore always been important to me and Catherine Street // AB25 1EU
Travelling across Aberdeen City Centre
19 20In Between States Tendency Towards Presents:
New Art from North Macedonia LOVEAND...
move awareness
between touch
Love
points in the
body as a way to
reduce anxiety.
Using touch
points is a great
And
meditation
technique for
anyone looking
for an alternative
The idea of “in-betweenness”, or liminality, is very How does the sense of political and social limbo to focusing on
Centring around a desk-like structure enmeshed Throughout the festival run, a series of
. . .
breathing.
topical in contemporary art practices, but has a experienced in North Macedonia map onto in a pod, LOVEAND... is Tendency Towards’ first performative interactions and gestures within
particular relevance in the cultural and political conditions in Scotland, and vice-versa? What sort of large-scale exhibition commission as a group. the environment will promote a slow-down and
ecologies of both Scotland and North Macedonia. meaningful dialogue can be had from countries and Bringing together a constellation of enquiries sharing approach to the site of productive labour.
As controversy surrounds North Macedonia’s peoples at opposite corners of Europe? into the apparatus and habits of hyper-capitalist
projected entry to the European Union and NATO working environments, the committee have Tendency Towards is an Aberdeen based
under its new name, so a similar seismic political The chosen three Macedonian artists will work sought to inverse the functionality of office artist-led initiative comprising of artists Yvette
change awaits Scotland, which was projected to within these parameters in installation, video and furnishings to create an intimate space in which Bathgate, Jessica Barrie, Donald Butler, Paula
leave the EU at the end of March 2019, despite sound. The exhibition will be accompanied by a to contemplate co-working labour realities Buskevica, Mary Gordon and Jake Shepherd.
having voted overwhelmingly to remain part of the full colour catalogue with critical essays by Jon through the vocabulary of self-improvement. Since 2017 they have operated a programme of
European project. Blackwood (curator) and Holly Knox Yeoman, as exhibitions, workshops and public events to support
well as features on each of the chosen artists. Blending together material and object experimental arts practices, most recently engaging
What is the relationship between art, activism and considerations alongside moving-image, texts in research around emotional labour within
Image: Ivana Sidzimovska, Liminal States, 2017. Photograph:
politics? How does the uncertainty of “in-between- Bozho Gagovski
and found material from disparate sources of collective arts practices, producing as a cohort.
ness” play out in contemporary practices already self-care content, ranging from podcasts, beauty
buffeted by precarity, shrinking public funds and 7 June - 6 July bloggers, texts, mindfulness apps, LOVEAND...
declining audiences and attention spans? What Artists: 10.00 - 17.00 marks a new mode of production for the initiative 7-9 + 14-16 June
strategies can be used by artists to address these (Closed Sunday/Monday) through a collapsing of artistic production 10.00 - 17.00
concerns through their work? How and in what way Ana JOVANOVSKA alongside curatorial practice. The intention
does the hauntological presence of a more unified Ana LAZAREVSKA W OR M here is to utilise the trappings of information- The Anatomy Rooms
past, play out in the fractured post-digital present? Ivana SIDŽIMOVSKA Castlegate // AB11 5BQ production to generate a meditation around the Queen Street // AB10 1AP
experiences of contemporary work-habits.
21 22Am I Using Material Or Is Etsy Aberdeen -
Material Using Me? Summer Showcase
Artists Elliott Cookson, Hannah
Gibson and Marcus Murison
present a group exhibition of
new work with a focus on source
materials.
The importance of source material
to an artist’s practice can go
unrecognised when exhibitions are
met by the viewer. This exhibition
explores this idea through a
common link - photography - the
starting point for these artists from
which their diverse approaches
emerge.
// We are TAR //
This exhibition is part of a series of
events and showcases happening
7 - 9 June at The Anatomy Rooms this year,
12.00-16.00 highlighting the work of our studio
residents!
The Anatomy Rooms
Queen Street // AB10 1AP
This Pernicious Nuisance
Jess Wilson-Leigh This Pernicious Nuisance
draws on the ever-changing
and deteriorating state of our
climate as we venture into The The ever-popular Aberdeen Etsy Market is friends, while encouraging connections and
Anthropocene; the geological returning for a special Summer Showcase as collaborative work. They run workshops, talks,
epoch defined by humanity, which part of Look Again. The curated design fair pop-ups, & casual meet-ups, as well as the
scientists have declared we are will showcase the best of Aberdeen City and hugely successful UK-wide Etsy Made Local
now living in. The ongoing project Shire talent, celebrating top quality makers, market.
is a personal response to the collectors and artisans from the region. It will
impact it has on the planet and the also house an installation communally created @AberdeenEtsyTeam
anxieties of living within this time of by the Aberdeen Etsy Team.
uncertainty. This new work acts as
a playful solution to the impending This is a great opportunity to meet the makers,
ecological disaster we may face, support local creatives and buy quality
suggesting an alternative to the products ranging from illustration, art, ceramics, Launch Night:
hostile and turbulent climate jewellery, textiles and cosmetics to homewares. 13 June 18.00-20.00
outside by recreating and imitating
an outside space, inside. Aberdeen Etsy Team are a not-for-profit Open:
creative community that supports Etsy sellers 14 - 15 June 10.00-17.00
7 - 9 June 12.00-16.00
// We are TAR // at any age and stage of their careers - from 16 June 11.00-17.00
15 June 12.00-18.00
This exhibition is part of a series of business start-up to long-term shop owners.
events and showcases happening The aim of the group is to bring the creative The Anatomy Rooms
The Anatomy Rooms
at The Anatomy Rooms this year, community in Aberdeen together, facilitating Queen Street // AB10 1AP
Queen Street // AB10 1AP
highlighting the work of our studio a platform for networking and making new
residents!
23 24Spoken Word / Comedy / Music
Talks / Events / Workshops
Poet, Jo Gilbert has curated a range of the FWS new voices anthology
performances from the local Aberdeen 2018. Jo is currently working
spoken word, comedy and music scenes on her first poetry collection.
to take place in and around Morag
Morag Myerscough + John Walter + Myerscough’s Love at First Sight
installation during Look Again Festival.
Jo Gilbert + Eliza Williams 8-9 + 15-16 June
Eliza Williams Jo Gilbert is a writer and spoken word 14.00 - 16.00
artist from Aberdeen. Jo won the StAnza
slam 2018, the all women poetry slam in Mercat Cross
Commissioned artist Morag Myerscough (Love Commissioned artist John Walter (The Fourth 2017 and opened for American poet Neil Castlegate //
at First Sight) and poet Jo Gilbert in conversation Wall) in conversation with Eliza Williams, Editor Hilborn at the Lemon Tree. Her work has AB11 5BQ
with Eliza Williams, Editor at Creative Review at Creative Review magazine - talking about the been published in Northwords Now and
magazine - talking about collaboration. issues surrounding Virtual Reality and painting.
FREE - Booking required via FREE - Booking required via Look Again
Aberdeen Box Office Aberdeen Box Office Creative Chit-Chat
6 June 18.00-19.00 7 June 17.30-18.30 Look Again Creative Speakers:
The Music Hall The Music Hall Chit-Chat is a night of fast
(Big Sky Studio) (Tutti Studio) paced, inspiring creative Ica Headlum // Creative Me Podcast
CREATIVE presentations, aimed at STACK Artist Collective
chit-chat NEW highlighting the breadth of Jon Reid + Mary Butterworth // Kekun Studio
NARRATIVES Lesley Ann Rose // Aberdeen Performing Arts
talent here in the Northeast.
Tim Courtney // Film maker + Musician
Jacqueline Donachie + Jon Blackwood + 11th Zoë Daniel // Journalist
Craig Barrowman + Ivana Sidžimovska + June
2019
We’ll hear from a range of
speakers connected to the
Phil Astley // Aberdeen City Archives
Artists’ Tuck Shop Zloto creative industries, who
will use a super-fast, fun,
Tuesday 11 June
Jacqueline Donachie (The Temple of Jackie) will Dr. Jon Blackwood, Curator, in conversation with relaxed presentation format
7pm -10pm 19.00 - 22.00
lead a discussion with commissioned artists Craig Ivana Sidžimovska (In Between States) and Zloto TICKETS FREE
VIA EVENTBRITE
to talk about what they do
and why they do it.
Belmont Filmhouse,
Barrowman (Mobile Ploposal Unit) and Artists’ (Caro&Karo Taxi). Kino Bar
#LOOKAGAIN2019 Belmont Filmhouse
Tuck Shop exploring common themes across (Kino Bar)
their areas of practice. 49 Belmont Street //
AB10 1JS
8 June 17.30-18.30 9 June 17.30-18.30
Belmont Filmhouse Belmont Filmhouse
(Kino Bar) (Kino Bar)
Gray’s: 20 Years On In summer 1999, a particularly This event is organised by Gray’s
close year group of Gray’s alumni, in partnership with Look
School of Art students Again Festival.
Shane Strachan + Steve Smith + graduated and stayed in
Josie Steed Olivia Wilson touch. They vowed to meet #Grays20
up to mark their 20th year
anniversary and that time has
Commissioned artist Shane Strachan (The Bill Commissioned photographer, Steve Smith will now come!
Gibb Line) in conversation with Josie Steed, discuss a film produced about Trading Faces
Course Leader of Fashion & Textile Design at with Young Film Maker Olivia Wilson. Join us to hear lightning talks
from a range of Gray’s 1999 15 June
Gray’s School of Art. 15.00 - 17.00
alumni speakers, who will give
fast and fun presentations
to share more about their Belmont Filmhouse
10 June 17.30-18.30 12 June 17.30-18.30 (Kino Bar)
creative practice and what
Belmont Filmhouse Belmont Filmhouse 49 Belmont Street //
they’ve been doing over the
(Kino Bar) (Kino Bar) AB10 1JS
last two decades, from Y2K to
present.
25 26LOOKINSIDE Collective Open House Weekender + Workshops
Workshop at The Anatomy Rooms
Join the LOOKINSIDE Collective at workshops
to engage with the public on the theme of ‘New
Narratives’, reinventing familiar surroundings. The The studio residents at The Anatomy Rooms will
LOOKINSIDE collective will demonstrate the process Open House Weekender open their doors to visitors. Come along to meet
they utilise in generating their designs as a starting the artists and designers and gain an insight into
point for the workshops. their working processes!
The attendees will explore the area around Marischal Some work will be available to buy, and from 6pm
College to gather shapes/images and drawings to please join us for drinks and music - BYOB in the
develop into personal out comes through simple project room - all welcome!
printing, collage and 3D working.
The Anatomy Rooms was established in 2015 by arts
8 + 9 June FREE - booking required via Eventbrite organisation All In Ideas and is an arts and creative
suitable for families/young people/adults. industries facility offering space and support to a
2 workshops per day broad range of creative practitioners and projects
times: 11.00-13.00 // 14.00-16.00 Look Inside Collective: whilst working closely with partners.
Gabrielle Reith // Mags Gray //
The Anatomy Rooms Aubin Stewart //Anne Marquiss 15 June
Queen Street // AB10 1AP 12.00 - 18.00
18.00 onwards - drinks + music + BYOB
The Anatomy Rooms // Queen Street // AB10 1AP * all welcome *
www.anatomyrooms.org
(Un)Well Scotland has a long tradition of
Norma D Hunter healing wells, “Clootie wells” as they
are better known and associated Workshops
“Wishing trees”. These were trees,
next to the wells, where the strips
Puppet Extravaganza Colourful Characters Vibrant Suncatcher
of material from the clothing of
the afflicted were hung to dry after
Join textile artist/designer Enter the creative world of Fused glass artist, Jane Ronie
being dipped in the healing waters
Elaine Grant for a puppet MissE. You will be guided will guide you through the
of the well. It was thought that as
making extravaganza! Explore through the process of process of making a beautiful
they rotted the illness or disability of
with colour, texture, pattern, creating your very own suncatcher by shaping and
the individual would fade with the 7 - 16 June form and scale as you create colourful textile character by overlaying coloured acetate
disintegrating material. The Denburn 10.00 -17:00 your very own character textile artist/designer Elaine on acrylic - fused glass
Spa Wellhead no longer offers up a
puppets. Grant. without the sharp bits!
healing drink but for the Look Again Denburn Spa
Festival the wishing tree can be Wellhead, *All materials will be provided *All materials will be provided *All materials will be provided
harvested for small words of wisdom Spa Street // and no experience is and no experience is and no experience is
to quench the thirst for balance in life. AB25 1PU necessary. necessary. necessary.
Age: 5+ Age: 8 - adult Age: 7 - adult
*All children must be *All children must be *All children must be
Listen Again accompanied by an adult accompanied by an adult. accompanied by an adult.
Maximum of 8 children per Unaccompanied adults are Unaccompanied adults are
workshop (plus their adult!) also welcome! Maximum of also welcome! Maximum of
Listen Again is a new fringe festival, curated by
Jack Murray-Brown, running alongside Look www.creativemisse.co.uk 8 participants per workshop 8 participants per workshop
7 - 16 June (excluding accompanying (excluding accompanying
Again Festival. Various times adults) adults)
The festival is focussed on contemporary / Pick up a
experimental music and club culture. Featuring www.creativemisse.co.uk www.janeronieglass.co.uk
Listen Again
performances, live coding and workshops, programme
discussions, radio and club nights. from one of 15 June 10.00 - 11.30
the Look Again 15 June 10.00 - 12.00 16 June 10.30 - 12.00 +
For more information and to see the full line up 16 June 13.30 - 15.30 16 June - 10.30-12.30
venues 13.30 - 15.00
visit the website: www.listenagainfestival.co.uk
27 28Gray’s School of Art
Degree Show 2019
This annual show is an important rite of passage for Degrees and qualifications have a reassuring ring
all of us. It marks another creative journey that the of certainty to them; it gives us confidence that we
School, its staff, and students have taken over the have achieved a ‘standard’. This is only the start
year. Importantly, it marks the end of one creative for our graduates for the world they enter into is
journey for our final year students, and marks the one of increasing uncertainty. Our students are
starting point of another yet to be navigated. indeed exposed to capacities such as a tolerance
to uncertainty and managing complexity and
This year we have welcomed the Look Again ambiguity – what we know as 21st century skills.
Festival into Gray’s School of Art as the initiative We are equipping them for life.
has transitioned to become Look Again Aberdeen.
This is a year round programme that leads on In this world, degrees and creative talent are
developing the creative industries in the Northeast, most definitely not enough. To survive and thrive,
not only through the annual festival, but by today’s creatives require entrepreneurial talent,
opening the new city centre Look Again Project resilience, and industry knowledge. At Gray’s we
Space, running the popular Creative PechaKucha are trying to take this to another level. Working
Nights, and launching creative enterprise support alongside our Look Again team, we are building
programmes, including the exciting new Creative creative pathways and a stronger creative
Accelerator, in partnership with Robert Gordon industries footprint for our city, its people, and our
University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group. graduates to benefit from.
This creates fantastic opportunities for our students We look forward to welcoming you to the Gray’s
to gain valuable work experience, building new Degree Show 2019 as part of your visit to Look
skills, knowledge and confidence that will equip Again Festival - come and see the city through
them well in their creative careers. It also promotes fresh eyes.
the Northeast as an increasingly viable location
from which to operate as a creative practitioner, Libby Curtis
helping us attain our goal to attract and retain Head of Gray’s School of Art
talent and building our connectivity beyond the
region.
15 - 22 June
// Free //
Open to Public:
Weekdays 10.00 - 20.00
Weekends 10.00 - 17.00
Private View:
Friday 14 June 19.00 - 22.00
Gray’s School of Art
Garthdee Road // AB10 7QD
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