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  • Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS : Review

    Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS : Review

    Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS, an experimental festival to be engaged with using not only the eyes but our ears. From 11 to 15  June 2025, two curatorial platforms Time Based (Olha Bekenshtein) and Arts & Parts (Martel Ollerenshaw) invited us to observe and absorb the phenomenon that is sound. By attending all programmes within the… Read more

  • [synonym] session x Alasdair Watson: Third Space

    [synonym] session x Alasdair Watson: Third Space

    What is a Third Space? When and how do you breach this space? How temporal; ethereal; lucid; real; nostalgic is this space? On May 17th we were presented to this site of thought and contemplation. Our guest host Alasdair Watson took the writing enthusiasts and ourselves on a tour of spaces and places that relate… Read more

  • Response: Fallow Land

    Response: Fallow Land

    Curated by Art Walk Porty Fallow Land is an exhibition comprised of five artists, having completed six month residencies that combine interdisciplinary place-centred projects that span across the exploration of post-agricultural lands. From Portobello in Edinburgh, Jedburgh a town in the Scottish Borders, to small holdings around Western Syria. The artists included are Henna Asikainen,… Read more

  • SAY NO!: Review

    SAY NO!: Review

    I watch as the low ceiling becomes translucent, I can see the blurred entities above me muffling and shuffling unaware of my presence beneath them. I watch, eyelashes flicker like a reel, recording their silent steps, their inaudible exchange of words and handheld objects. I could scream, but not here, not to them. Instead, I… Read more

  • [synonym] session #7: Embodiment.

    [synonym] session #7: Embodiment.

    Walker&Bromwich are artists that have been on both of our radars for some time… it is actually how both myself and A-J met, through The Encampment of Eternal Hope exhibited at wasps’s The Briggait, Glasgow, during COP26. What an experience that was! Two weeks full of discussions, workshops and “possible dialogues” along with indigenous ceremonies;… Read more

  • [synonym] session #6: Our archives/ou-archives

    [synonym] session #6: Our archives/ou-archives

    What better way to start off our second year of [synonym] sessions than to go to the location it first debuted – Tramway, Glasgow! Maud Sulter’s You are my kindred spirit is a living archive, harbouring photographs, film, collages, and sound; a collaboration of disparate mediums that fills the enormous concrete space. The themes are… Read more