Being Present: video festival in with Tramway, Glasgow

OGR presents “Being Present” a video festival developed in collaboration with Tramway (Glasgow) featuring videos by Urara Tsuchiya, LAPS, Poisonous Relationship, Claricia Parinussa & Rowdy SS, Christian Noelle Charles e FRAN.K, accompanied by a selection of videos curated by the David Dale Gallery and Studio.

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FRAN.K, Living in the Space Between, 2020
‘Living in the space between’ is a 4 hour durational work originally created for Tramway TV via Zoom. A meeting of bodies on the dancefloor in a continual dance mimicking our fleeting interactions in clubs, this show explores the experience of clubbing in the absence of having a live space. Over 3 duets and a journey through a 4 hour soundtrack this is an ode to the Glasgows Queer club scene and a celebration for all these spaces, dancers and music genres gave me.  

Guest Dancers; (In order of appearance): David Ronan, Bronze, Rosana Cade / Photography & Live Stream – Daniel Hughes / Fashions & Styling – Asia Apolonia / Music editing by Simon Howard – DJ RyanAir / Lighting Design – Jared Hutsby / Image Make Up – Sorcha Clelland

FRAN.K is a mixed- race, non-binary performance artist working with choreography, persona and visual art in club spaces. Through the mediums of durational based art and cabaret, their work interrogates identity, time, intimacy and dance as a form of healing. Their interests also lie in the intersection of fashion, technology and dance, creating highly striking live art dance work. I believe in the importance of connection and the shared experience of dance we have in club spaces. Clubs as a space of sanctuary and protection for queer communities and how dancing and celebrating  can be used as a transformative tool and one for healing.

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Urara Tsuchiya, Give us a Meow, 2019
Film by Urara Tsuchiya and Ben Toms, performed by Urara Tsuchiya ‘Give Us A Meow’ is set in a remote country cottage and shows the artist dancing alone in a variety of self-made costumes, in what appears to be an entranced or captivated state. 

edited by Adam Aftanas/ Music by Jack Brennan, Costume by Urara and Zephyr Liddell.

Urara Tsuchiya (b. 1979 in Japan) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Urara Tsuchiya works mainly with performance, video, and live events, often incorporating soft sculpture, costumes, ceramics and home cooking. These function as props to set up an alternate environment for out of the ordinary behaviours to take place. 

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Christian Noelle Charles
CC TIME – Popping Kareoke; CC TIME – Procrastination time; CC TIME – This Is Your Bad Side; CC TIME – Top Hat, 2017
TOP HAT is a video project, a personal portrait exploring the ideas of performance using the Top Hat as the subject. Using 1930s aesthetic references. 
 Films are juxtaposed with the artists to share a distant dream and an unravelling stage of thoughts demonstrated through the layers within the video. While the video unravels it reveals the audience’s thoughts to bring conversations about race and gender. 

FEEL THE MUSIC is an ongoing series of works created habitually by artist Christian Noelle Charles (CC) since 2015, that feature her dancing and lip-synching to music. Through these works CC explores self-love in a contemporary world, taking inspiration from pop culture, modern performance techniques and personal experiences to look at the ‘selfie’ as a millennial form of portraiture, taking in character development, black female representation, and the act of performing to the camera as a form of radical self-love. 

Christian Noelle Charles is a Black Female Artist currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. A Syracuse, New York native, Christian’s work is an exploration of female representation and self-love in a contemporary world. 

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Claricia Parinussa e Rowdy SS, (this) silence is also deafening. and sometimes there are no words for that,2020 

Claricia Parinussa e Rowdy SS
(this) silence is also deafening. and sometimes there are no words for that 
…it’s whether the suspension can acknowledge the ‘being’ in and of itself, in this position, before having a decision, or been reduced; to spin this way or that way. 

Sometimes it’s making new. Shifting [the narrative] if only in retrospect, precisely in retrospect; it’s (still) important. 

A live collaboration between Rowdy SS and Claricia Parinussa through Tramway’s spaces, captured in a single take by Paradax Period. Commissioned by Tramway for Continuum. 

because if we can all make ourselves anew, all the time, start again, make new decisions, we can never undo but we can redo, do again, with knowledge, do again, with context, apologise, take space, heal, reform, raise again, rise again, of this vibration. 

and these things were always there; we were always there, and remain, and aren’t yet; and we aren’t yet, and will be. Ingrained, now too. 
 
and even now it’s not empty; it speaks louder than usual. 

Concept & performance: Rowdy SS & Claricia Parinussa / Sound: Rowdy SS / Movement: Claricia Parinussa / Film: Paradax Period / Camera assistant: Thierry Fotso / Producer: Zoë Charlery – ID.Y / Lighting and cabling: Sam Burnley / Sound technician: Sam Randerson

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David Dale Gallery, (Caitlin Merrett King and Max Slaven) Curated Program:
Ashanti Harris, Doll Thomas, 2019
Winnie Herbstein, Studwork, 2018
Stasis, Faux Pas, 2018

David Dale will work with 3 artists to curate a program for OGR based on the last two years of their program.

Established in 2009, David Dale Gallery and Studios is a space that promotes pioneering contemporary visual art through the commissioning and year round programming of new work and projects by early career international and UK based artists. Maintaining a commitment to providing opportunities and supporting the development of artists, curators and writers, David Dale Gallery and Studios intend to encourage professional development, education and community participation whilst delivering our core aim of presenting outstanding contemporary visual art. Additionally, the organisation operates an affordable artist studios facility, for the production and development of new work by emerging artists. 

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Poisonous Relationship, Ash Land, 2020
‘ASH LAND’ is the first music video from LITTLE CALF, the latest album by Poisonous Relationship. It’s a song about hometowns, regrettable affections, and glory.
Poisonous Relationship is the musical project of Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe, who sings, writes, produces, and directs. LITTLE CALF, released in July 2020, is their fourth album: inspired by diverse niches of UK garage, by the spartan disco remixes of John Morales, and by the textures of British folk music, the album weds delicate songwriting to production that swings, lurches, and flares to make idiosyncratic dance music. 
Over the past ten years Poisonous Relationship has released four albums and six EPs, made remixes for Holly Johnson, Alexis Penney, and The 2 Bears, and produced tracks for Cakes Da Killa, Big Momma, and Karnage. Their discography is available for download at poisonousrelationship.bandcamp.com. 

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LAPS, Who me?
‘Who Me?’ is the title track from Glasgow duo Cass Ezeji and Alicia Matthews a.k.a Ladies As Pimps, (LAPS), debut EP.  Full of Spirited percussion and bass smothered in tape delay, the song and album beat through Dub, RnB, House, and way beyond, mashing absurdity with dread. Recorded at Green Door studios in Glasgow (where the two met) and layered with the analogue production techniques ‘Who me?’ is one of the most focused and vital club singles to recently emerge from the Glasgow underground, with their unique and thoroughly danceable fusion of dub, house, and trip-hop.  

“WHO ME?” performed by LAPS
Written and produced by Alicia Matthews and Cass Ezeji
Video directed by: Kristina McCormick (DIET CLINIC)
Under exclusive license to MIC Records and in North America DFA Record