Marvin Gaye Chetwynd - Uptight upright upside down – includes a new commission at CCA Glasgow
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, The Elixia App, Episode One, Praxes at Bergen Assembly, Bergen, 29 April 2016. Photo: Thor Brodreskift. Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. |
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd - Uptight upright upside down
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Info
Fri 11 November – Sat 24 December 2016 / Sun 1 January – Sun 8 January 2017 Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm // Sun: 12noon-6pm // Performances: Saturdays, 12noon-5pm // Free
Preview: Fri 11 Nov, 7pm-9pm // Performances: 7.30pm & 8.30pm Artist talk with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Fri 2 Dec, 7pm, Free but ticketed
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CCA Glasgow
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
G2 3JD
Scotland
For her first full solo show in Scotland, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd revisits and extends some of her earlier works, transforming the exhibition spaces in CCA into a set.
Proposing ideas and sharing information on what might liberate people, in an interactive live cinematic proposal, Uptight upright upside down attempts not to shape the world, but rather to offer a visual extension to it. The artist describes her work as 'impatiently made', often re-using cheap materials that are easy to process and to use by the many performers she invites to play a role in her work. Chetwynd draws on models of family organisation and models of mixed economies, while demonstrating a willingness to abandon the idea of autonomy as an artist. The notion of play and the importance of playful imagination are also given serious consideration.
A new chapter of Chetwynd's Hermitos Children will be developed throughout Uptight upright upside down. Hermitos Children began in 2008; the CCA commission will be the third chapter in the series. Combining staged cinematic episodes with action filmed in front of a live audience, these filmed sequences will be layered over a set constructed in the gallery, animating it and bringing a sense of live chaos and exuberance to those otherwise static structures. The characters from the film will visit CCA for a live performance on the opening night of the exhibition. The film will be created and edited during the run of Uptight upright upside down, and will be installed towards the end of the exhibition.
Giant sculpture-like costumes will be constructed and animated in CCA's largest gallery, all previously worn by the characters in Chetwynd's works. The walls in this space will feature Chetwynd's representations of Shunga, a Japanese erotic art tradition which thrived for centuries and which involved almost all of Japan's greatest artists.
Large-scale versions of original collage fanzines which have been produced as programmes for previous Marvin Gaye Chetwynd performances from 2000 to 2016 will also be on display.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a talk with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd on Friday 2 December.
