The WIP #24: Broken Balance Beam

The Week in Photos (8-14 June 2023)

Here is my contribution to GI: a broken and abandoned balance beam that looks like a stretching cat, illustrating how tired I am by dashing around to different places.

I also would like to do a series of people’s small faces in their glasses. A society of the spectacle wearers.

After parkrun, went to see Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s film in Kinning Park, one of the highlights of GI, taking in genetics, Kabbalah, rebirth and death …

Although the discussion they did on Monday weirdly focused on the pros and cons of building muscle.

A lot of the work art in GI is durational or an installation-based so it was a delightful surprise to see a white cube with things on the wall in the Pentagon studios. Here are the artists: Ayla, Toby and Jonathan.

I was struck by their folded arms, as I was by Jack’s interlinked fingers at Queen’s Park Glasshouse.

On Wednesday I went to the 20th birthday party of media co-op, with whom I am proud to have worked on a number of projects. Thank god they only showed clips as otherwise there wouldn’t have been a dry eye in Kelvinhall. They make incredible films about social issues, bringing empathy to everything they do. You can now see all their films in the National Library of Scotland archive.

After, I went back to The Revelator, Stephen Skrynka’s wall of death which has a festival of rejects this month. Here he is with Marianne Dissard before her intense performance about the state of England.

If it wasn’t enough to cycle around seeing art, I also got a call to help on a conference bike going around the city. We mainly talked about how bad it was for a festival of cycling to be sponsored by a car company.

All this activity has left me feeling depleted so happy to be going on holiday in England … oh.