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  • Rosebank’s Spirits and Derks’ Canvas: Review

    Rosebank’s Spirits and Derks’ Canvas: Review

    In childhood, I passed its brick carcass. Subconsciously noting its strange presence with its still standing stature — an unusual phenomenon. It was as if the building knew it would return, it was not destined for demolition like many other unfortunate buildings in Falkirk. I would walk past it without much thought, it wasn’t even… Read more

  • [synonym] session: My fierce aunt bianca

    [synonym] session: My fierce aunt bianca

    Curator of FEMME, Brooke Hailey Hoffert, welcomed us to an exhibition forged through collaborative efforts with artist and filmmaker María José Maldonado presenting ‘My Fierce Aunt Bianca’, at Strangefield, Glasgow.   Housed behind a black curtain, Hoffert starts the session off with advising us to first watch the incredibly informative short documentary aptly titled ‘My… Read more

  • Peilin Shi: critical review

    Peilin Shi: critical review

    Opening our eyes to the world of storytelling, Peilin Shi invited us along to two events demonstrating her ability to tell narratives across multiple disciplines. Her stories encapsulate her life in the present as well as in the ancestral, tracing her Hakka lineage through spoken word, song and sound. Starting with her performance at the… Read more

  • [synonym] session X Maria Soroniati

    [synonym] session X Maria Soroniati

    On Saturday 5 July, we hit the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, to facilitate the last of the Summer Programme [synonym] sessions with guest host artist — Maria Soroniati. Our writing cohort were immersed in Ciara Phillips’ Undoing It as they discussed the themes of life and death, investigating the in between highlighting its equal… Read more

  • Inside the Modern Temple: Critical Review

    Inside the Modern Temple: Critical Review

    Inside the Modern Temple investigated the vast language of humans concerning ideologies and fairytales told and retold throughout time. The works range from different styles and mediums: digital print to installation to oil painting to photographs (one of the two works was photographic documentation of a performance). As Edinburgh-based artist Zefeng Li spoke about each… Read more

  • [synonym] session x SONIC INTERVENTIONS

    [synonym] session x SONIC INTERVENTIONS

    As always, we invited peers who were intrigued by art and the context that it can pose. In this session, we focused on the aspect of sound and its place in geography, war, and art. Engaging with our memory of space and our connection with sound physiologically. In this session, we set off to the… Read more