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  • Seven Soniferous Hours: A Response to RAISE THE ALARM

    Seven Soniferous Hours: A Response to RAISE THE ALARM

    “The ear is a faithful collector of all sounds that can be gathered within its limits of frequency and amplitude. Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.” Raise the Alarm, a soniferous experience giving opportunity to the viewer to peer beyond the human perspective and Read more

  • [synonym] session #4: listening to memories

    [synonym] session #4: listening to memories

    After a much needed break in May, Gallery Bagging’s co-editor Eliza brought in a whopper of an exercise for June’s [synonym] session #4. Beginning with our journey towards the POC-run Listen Gallery on Hunter Street, Glasgow, we followed Tennant’s chimneys towards this quaint little building sporting a rectangular encapsulated graffiti tag hovered by this session’s Read more

  • [synonym] session #3: Imagines

    [synonym] session #3: Imagines

    April’s session focused on the exhibition ‘Leaves Turn Inside You’ by artist Charlie Hodgson at the David Dale Gallery, Glasgow. In this workshop we aimed for our prompts to become a suggestive tool to encourage participants to freely question and speculate the narratives of the work, the subtleness of the story that is being told Read more

  • response: It Boils Down to Nerves | Emily Coulson’s ‘In the Ending of Nerves’ 

    response: It Boils Down to Nerves | Emily Coulson’s ‘In the Ending of Nerves’ 

    A 22-minute walk from the Glasgow Queen Street station existed the brief exhibition In the Ending of Nerves. A curated display consisting of porcelain magic, decal imagery, and objects with histories. It demonstrated the intersection between memory and suffering; self-inflicted pleasure and pain generated through metaphors as a means to translate chronic illness and, in Read more

  • [Synonym] Session #2: Ten_tacles/drils

    [Synonym] Session #2: Ten_tacles/drils

    This month’s [synonym] session at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow explored ‘Life Bestowing Cadaverous Soooooooooooooooooooooooot’ a research exhibition and live programme by Rae-Yen Song. Inviting the viewer to engage with ideas of speculating on the potentials of world-building through a multitude of sensory artworks, prototypes, experiments, artefacts, models, and research practices. With this in Read more

  • Studio Chats with Niamh J McFarlane: Paint it like a Polaroid Picture

    Studio Chats with Niamh J McFarlane: Paint it like a Polaroid Picture

    Days go by, one after the other, memories of yesterday’s dinner vanish alongside moments that our cranial philosophy deems forgettable. So, she logs and remembers, using the captured moment to fill her mind with the shimmering water whose ripples are convexed by the solar light; remembering how she made that high-pitched squeak at the end Read more