self made cavalcade
self-made cavalcade is a group show comprising of work by emerging artists from glasgow, edinburgh and munich. celebrating a veritable carnival of creativity in these three inextricably-linked cities, this exhibition aims to examine performative artwork and artists’ networks in the wider social scene.
the selected artists create work which explores this social culture in some form - combining music, performance, video, sound, sculptural props, photography and drawing in an inter-textual and interactive format.
the work is variously theatrical and satirical in examining the function and dysfunction of excess and its possibilities as a visual quality. often calling into question the autonomy of any single defining practise in the artist’s armoury of skills, the work plays with the concept of what it is to be an artist and the multi-faceted roles one can explore though this.
self-made cavalcade features carefully selected works which refer to the concept of the exhibition and to the locale of the gallery space itself. events, remnants of performances-passed (which serve the dual purpose of prop and of documentation) and those of a ‘performance’ which is yet to occur join other video works, sculptural props and drawings, enabling the performative element of the show to function beyond the performances themselves.
we aim to highlight the strong social heritage in these cities where artists, musicians and performers often collaborate and generate cross-disciplinary praxis.
kate andrews and louise briggs
2009
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