Archive
- Olympic Village
- The Unconditional State of Search
- Simon Starling - Blue Boat Black
- European Couples and Others*
- Russell Crotty and Jonnie Wilkes
- Four Projects, Four Talks
- New York Public Access Experience
- Young Parents
- JOYJOY
- Hong Kong Island
- Hong Kong Island
- Life/Live
- Life/Live
Olympic Village
15 November - 13 December 1997
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Padraig Timoney, Alan Michael, Joanne McGonigal and Roddie Mathieson show in the second leg of an exchange between Transmission and Three Month Gallery in Liverpool.
Transmission members Sophie Macpherson and Roger Hiorns exhibited in Liverpool along with Yiannis Grigoriadis from 3-26 October.
The Unconditional State of Search
11 October - 01 November 1997
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Corey McCorkle (New York City) exhibits along with Peter Zimmermann (Cologne) and Brits Dean Hughes and Peter Walsh. Zen Ikebana flower arrangements by Vera Ferguson tie lifestyle-ism to transcendence.
Simon Starling - Blue Boat Black
06 September - 04 October 1997
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First solo show in Scotlans by Glasgow-based artist Simon Starling.
+ Transmission took part in 'Connected" an artist-run space survey at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland. Paul Carter and Anne-Marie Copestake made new work for the exhibition space. Video footage of the installation and opening of 'Blue Boat Black' was also shown.
European Couples and Others*
13 July - 02 August 1997
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The annual members' open show, with over 200 exhibiting including guests invited by members. The theme was dedication - each work being dedicated to a person, event, idea or object.
Russell Crotty and Jonnie Wilkes
07 June - 05 July 1997
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Local artist Jonnie Wilkes exhibited new sculptural installation work alongside the giant star-atlas book works of California's Russell Crotty.
Four Projects, Four Talks
19 April - 31 May 1997
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19-26/04: Nicolas Floc'h - sculptures and video documentation of Floc'h's 'Écriture Productive' - land/sea art concerned with language; 01-08/05: Beåta Veszely - "You are cordially invited for a cup of tea in a stable on Sunday 4th May between 3-5pm". Event to accompany three video projections in the gallery, recorded in three Scottish racehorse stables; 13-20/05: Liam Gallick - 'Another Shop in Tottenham Court Road' - set construction for the production of a short documentary. Volunteers were filmed reading from the artist's books Erasmus is Late and Ibuka!, as the third part of a series of documentaries produced in different cities; 24-31/05: Clara Ursitti - 'The Smell of Fear Part 1 and 2: Judy Garland' - a scent portrait of the late Judy Garland, created with the help of Dr George Dodd.
+ in the basement: 01-20/05/97: 'Diva(s)' - project bt Robin Bagnall and George Toth, preview performance with String Quartet
+ Transmission also took part in the Glasgow Art Fair, exhibiting and selling work by various members.
New York Public Access Experience
25 March - 12 April 1997
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Hundreds of hours of clips, shows and interviews from New York's public access cable TV stations organised by Alex Bag, Patterson Beckwith and Sam Soghor.
+ in the basement: 'Non Stop Body Rock' - Dave Beech, Dave Burrows, Sue Webster & Tim Noble, Curated by Graham Ramsay.
Young Parents
22 March - 31 March 1997
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Transmission participated in an exhibition in Manchester of artists and artist-run spaces with City Racing (London), Three Month Gallery (Liverpool) and hosted by The Annual Programme and Castlefield Gallery. Transmission's contribution was curated by Tom O'Sullivan and Joanne Tatham from proposals by Transmission members and included Amanda Bindley, Jamie Burroughs, Alex Frost, Steve Hollingsworth, Eva Rothschild, Tom O'Sullivan, Joanne Tatham, Beåta Veszely, Toby Webster, David Wilkinson and Caroline Woodley.
JOYJOY
17 February - 15 March 1997
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Gitte Villesen, David Burrows, Gary Perkins, Stuart Purdy, Karen Reynolds, Peter Kapos and Paul McCarthy exhibited work in this show which presented innocence as the harbinger of deception.
+Videos in the basement - Ren and Stimpy, Manga, Throbbing Gristle live at Oundle School for boys; 27/02: Screening of Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising and John Waters' Female Trouble; 08/03: Martin McGowen discusses Paul McCarthy's work in the context of 'JOYJOY'; 13/03: Screening of Scorpio Rising and Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter.
Hong Kong Island
11 January - 08 February 1997
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A group show based around propositions of unrealisable projects by Alan Currall, Chris Evans, Claire Barclay, Kevin Kelly, Billy Clark, Aoise Farren, Kate Gray, David Wilkinson, Andrew Miller and Simon Polli
+ Preview night; 'Blueprints and pipe dreams' - David Michael Clarke gives a rapid-fire slide presentation with help from the Duchess of York, Damon Hill, Douglas Gordon and the Spice Girls; 18/01: 'Unrealisable Hope' - Stefano Pasquini holds a slide talk and discussion on his work, utopian projects and 'Hong Kong Island'; 01/02: 'Finding Things Out' - Billy Clark expands on his investigative work presented in the exhibition; 08/02 Metropolis: Screening of the film by Fritz Lang.
Hong Kong Island
11 January - 08 January 1997
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A group show based around propositions of unrealisable projects by Alan Currall, Chris Evans, Claire Barclay, Bevin Kelly, Billy Clark, Aoise Farren, Kate Gray, David Wilkinson, Andrew Miller and Simon Polli. The poster was designed by Brendan Sowersby and there was an accompanying archive with proposals and projects by international artists, architects, writers and radicals.
"The impossible dreams of ten artists are being showcased in 'Hong Kong Island', an exhibition at Transmission. Their responses to the question of what constitutes an unrealisable project are found in the political, personal and psychological realms...
Kate Gray is offering you all unconditional love on 0141 552 1577. I advise all male 'members' to ring this number now--it may prove a more rewarding experience than lavishing your own unconditional love on 22 strangers every Saturday. Alan Currall's video documents his parents' instructions on how to survive when the ship literally goes down. In a rare instance of useful parental advice, Mr Currall senior details how to drink the blood of a captured seagull. Beat that.
Elsewhere, Billy Clark takes you about as close as you'll ever get to the front door of Number 10 Downing Street, while Simon Polli exhibits a drawing of a block of flats on wheels--the council could consider this to help solve urban decay. The other pipe dreamers, Chris Evans, Kevin Kelly, Aoise Farren, David Wilkinson, Claire Barclay and Andy Miller, have all doodled away admirably, and with the addition of the unabomber's manifesto, this is a rich stew.
Now I've been in their dreams, so they can be in mine. Waking up in a cold sweat, I saw an exhibition of all the rejected proposals for art shows in Scotland last year. Now that would be interesting, but that's another story..." John Beagles (The List, 24 January--6 February 1997, p. 62)
Life/Live
05 October - 05 January 1997
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Transmission participate in an exhibition concerning artist-run spaces in Britain at the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The artists showing were Richard Wright, Martin Boyce, Susan Tompkins, Heather Allen and Roderick Buchanan. The Show toured to Lisbon in January 1997.
Life/Live
05 October - 05 January 1997
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Transmission participate in an exhibition concerning artist-run spaces in Britain at the Musée d' Art Modern de la Ville de Paris. The artists showing were Richard Wrtight, Martin Boyce, Susan Tompkins, Heather Allen and Roderick Buchanan. The show toured to Lisbon in January 1997.
