Ever walked into a crowded room and all the pictures on the wall simultaneously turned to look at you? Big Friendly Show includes a homemade mobile sauna, wobbly tabled carrot cake giveaway, a spicy version of the game Twister (real spices), doughnut interactive audio works, a fountain more than worthy of the venue's name, unforgettable lavatory experiences, opera-volume (unmiked!) singing poetry recitals and another surprise musical setting devised by Franz Ferdinand. The Chateau, 45 Bridge Street, Glasgow (1 minute from Bridge Street Underground or 7 minutes walk from Central Station) 6pm onwards Friday 28th February
Admission Free Big Friendly Show Jakob Anckarsv�rd Silo Design Steven Dickie Ola Gustafsson Andy Knowles Barbara Krull Aya Iguchi Kristian K�rner Robb Mitchell Ursula Nistrup Raul Ortega Matias Ring + Julia Schnabel plus (launch event) Franz Ferdinand & Yvon Bonenfant It is said that the hospitality of Bedouin people is such that a visitor � especially a stranger, may stay and be fed for two days before the host is permitted to ask what the visitor is doing there. Most galleries are a bit like that too, but without the overnight facilities. Barbara Krull Reliably described as the "most honest person I�ve ever met". An ever present fixture at Lynsey Well�s knitting circle. Krull has shown at Havana Biennale, Cuba and lots of galleries with really long names in Germany like the Kunst und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn). Kristian K�rner has a well developed practice - designing and recreating not-quite-so-everyday tools and activities from cray fishing to sedan chairs. The Chateau hots up for Big Friendly Show with Kristian�s demonstrations of his handmade mobile sauna. Steven Dickie has become known all manner of arts related radio transmissions from domestic barbecues in Glasgow to weeklong citywide such as Tweeter Voice-Over with Catalyst Arts, Belfast and AgiTATE, The Blitz Festival, Manchester. He recently built upon previous forays into live video editing for gigs involving major acts like Gilles Peterson, The Scratch Perverts and The Mad Professor to produce a interactive video installation for Eartours at CCA, Glasgow. For Big Friendly Show, Stevie is exhibiting a major new interactive audio work funded by a Glasgow City Council Visual Arts Award. Ola Gustafsson is a Scottish trained artist living in Sweden. Ola is curating Frequency Malmoe, at Stockholm Art Fair 2003. In recent years Ola�s exhibitions include Sums of Parts, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and with Protoacademy in Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and the 4th Gwangiu Biennale in South Korea. Andy Knowles is a final year Environmental Art student at Glasgow School of Art. He has shown with Switchspace and Emerged, Glasgow and P.E. presents in Berlin and has forthcoming exhibitions at the Podium Gallery, Glasgow plus The Haunted Swing at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. Aya Iguchi studied in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Rotterdam. She recently completed the prestigious: UNIDEE residency at Fondazione Pistolleto, Biella, Italy. Aya�s practice is concerned with utilizing an actual space or place, making it into something else or giving it another function. Challenging the identity of the space/place/objects. Aya�s curatorial projects include Haiku Installation (London Guildhall University and Glasgow) and Spacing To Let, Rotterdam. Raul Ortega A Mexican born artist living in Glasgow. Studied at Hunter College, NYC and National Centre for the Arts in Mexico City.His most recent shows include New Contemporaries 2002, A Night of 1000 drawings at Artists Space, New York and as a victor in Majority Rules! (Part 2) at Free Gallery, Glasgow. Matias Ring & Julia Schnabel are both Edinburgh based artists from Norway and Germany respectively. They collaborated on a performance/sculpture hybrid project with Protoacademy at Rraum02/Ideoblast, Frankfurt. Matias was selected for New Contemporaries 2001. More recent shows incIude ID Gallery, Stockholm, Stills Gallery and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and Fresh Art, London. Julia has produced performance work for both galleries and public places around Europe. Ursula Nistrup - Danish born artist studied Fine Art Photography and now Master of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. Exhibtions in previous 12 months include two-person shows with Switchspace and Intermedia Gallery Glasgow and completion of the Gil-society residency in Akureyri,Iceland. Current practice is exploring unusual connections between light & sound. Jakob Anckarsv�rd - Prior to Glasgow School of Art, studied at Royal Academy, Stockholm, Gerlesborg School of Art and University Of Lund. Recent shows include BP-Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, New Constructions, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Galleri Svenska Bilder, and Gula Rummet (both Stockholm). Silo Design (Simon Harlow). If bicycles could talk, and if they never shut up they would look like Simon Harlow. Simon has designed and produced furniture and fittings for many of the best looking bars and venues around Glasgow including The Arches, Spy Bar, The Art House Hotel and Massiff. The refurbishment of the Chateau continues apace with Silo�s permanent installation of a suite of innovative and extensively tested unisex toilets. They are made from 100% recycled materials, so come and bless them. AND FOR THE OPENING NIGHT EVENT ONLY: FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY FROM 6PM Kind of Franz Ferdinand + special surprise guests. The new scottish gentry as you�ve never-not-seen them before. Yvon Bonenfant Yvon Bonenfant is a performance artist from Montreal, Canada who specialises in using his voice and body in a visceral fashion. Cross-trained in psychocorporal (body-based) psychotherapy and experimental music, and with a substantial history of live-art collaborative performance that crosses the boundaries between theatre, dance and music, he has worked with Tunnel Works Collective, Geraldine Morita, and in self-produced settings, as well as with experimental musicians Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and composer Neely Bruce. He currently teaches movement and body awareness as well as physical theatre and performance art at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle. Brief impromptu opera-volume (unmiked!) singing poetry recitals. HOT AND COLD DRINKS and cakes Now 8 times as many toilets as a certain former jail... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
