10 July 2010 to 24 July 2010
Tue - Sat: 11am - 6pm
CCA : Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
G2 3JD
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Europe
p: +44 (0)141 352 4900
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f: +44 (0)141 332 3226
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This Land Is Your Land Saturday 10 July - Saturday 24 July 2010
This Land is Your Land is an annual two-week exhibition project exploring the connections between nature and art.
In its second year, the project will feature Naheed Raza’s film Silk, screening on a loop in CCA 1. The film depicts the reeling of the Golden Orb Weaver, a spider unique for the golden hue of the web it weaves. CCA 2 will screen John Smith’s The Kiss, Margaret Tait’s Garden Pieces and Anna Lucas’ Uña de Gato.
In CCA 3, a series of events, workshops, talks, exhibitions and one off screenings will be held. Drawing on the theme of Naheed Raza’s Silk, spinning workshops will allow visitors to the gallery the opportunity to try the traditional craft of spinning. Four cookery workshops will be delivered by CCA’s head chef and the North Glasgow Food Initiative, helping people to learn how to cook delicious meals with healthy produce.
Window farms will be developed at sessions throughout the fortnight, allowing people to drop in and make their own hydroponics. These will be displayed in the CCA Sauchiehall Street windows and on a frame in CCA 3. A composting workshop will be delivered by Beth Duffy of the Community Recycling Network for Scotland, and planting workshops will teach people how to plant and allow them to take away their own to grow at home. Kabloom’s Darren Wilson and Jennifer Claire will run a seed bombing workshop with an afternoon ‘bombing’ event by the Clyde, and a trip to Charles Jenck’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation will take place on Saturday 24 July, with a bus running from CCA. The trip costs £10 per person and tickets are available from CCA box office on 0141 352 4900).
A bee talk with artist Rebecca Chesney will talk about the great threat to bees and how their disappearance would have a catastrophic effect on nature and humans. Artists Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope will present a talk on their community garden project in London, What Will the Harvest Be? And a youth group from Maryhill will be creating a film during the first week of the project to be screened on Friday 16 July.
Polytechnics’ installation Shredder will be on display in CCA 3. Originally commissioned by the Feral Trade Café, it shreds outdated computer manuals, mixing the paper with coffee grounds to create a useful organic matter used to cultivate café products. Sneha Solanki and Dominic Smith from Polytechnic will also present a talk and demonstration and Friends of the Earth will run a ‘Swap-o-rama’, a chance to get rid of items you don’t want and pick up something you do in an effort to reduce waste and encourage re-use to save valuable resources.
Voice artist Wounded Knee and analogue synthesizer collective 7VWWVW will perform a unique tribute to Tom Weir on Wednesday 21 July, during which an original score will be played live to footage of outstanding moments of Weir’s Way.
Finally, Glasgow School of Art’s Architecture department will showcase its work for the GROW sight on West Princes St. This is the second year the department has been involved in This Land is Your Land and CCA will be working with it again next year on the CCA Westhorn allotments building project.
Full details of all events will be posted here soon. All events are free apart from the trip to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation
