Ann Bowman, Luke Collins, Derek Lodge
17 February–5 April 2008
gallery open Tuesday – Saturday
ARTIST TALKS BY LUKE COLLINS AND DEREK LODGE - 27 MARCH 7PM
Three distinct practices and vocabularies explore wayward narratives and creative unease to generate work that calls into question audience demands and the responsibility of the entertainer. An amalgamation of disparate texts, plundered theatrical tropes and cathartic humour set a terrain for wild and inventive negotiation. Transmission Gallery has invited Ann Bowman, Luke Collin and Derek Lodge to produce new work to be shown across both gallery spaces at 45 and 48 King Street.
Ann Bowman will be showing new video and drawing work based loosely on Lenny Bruce’s stage and written version of his own obscenity trial (1961 San Franscisco “Bruce V. the people”) due to onstage use of the word “cocksucker”, the character Frank T. J. Mackey played by Tom Cruise in the 1999 film “Magnolia”, as well as the actor himself, performance anxiety, and private interviews.
Luke Collins has designed and built a set and developed a series of characters and will step behind the camera for the first time. A small cast and crew work with and play out the conflicts and resolutions produced between the contrasting themes of ‘control’, ‘excess’ and ‘rhetoric’. The set becomes a container forcing these irreconcilable tones to share a space.
The video piece produced by Derek, begins by examining his own working methods and the difficulty he experiences when beginning a project. After a failed attempt to make something research based and academic he has instead been guided by random influences. Charlie Chaplin, Kurt Vonnegut, You Tube How-To videos, and his former self, via incomplete college sketch book notes, lead him down a path where he encounters a new alphabet, glow-in-the-dark tomatoes and God.
Ann Bowman: Ann graduated from the Painting department at Glasgow School of Art in 2005. She currently lives and works in Denver.
Luke Collins: Luke Collins graduated in 2007 from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art. He works across sculpture, video and performance. Collins has exhibited widely and worked on several collaborative projects. He is currently writing an essay about the 1991 film Point Break.
Derek Lodge: Derek studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, graduating in 2000. Based in Dundee, he works with video, music, performance, dialogue and collaborative practice. He is part of the Scottish artists’ collective Ganghut and recently completed a residencies at Cove Park and Yorkshire ArtSpace in Sheffield where he developed a distinctive style of ‘musical documentary’ in collaboration with some rather specialised Sheffield clubs such as The Sir Cliff Richard Meeting House of Sheffield and Sheffield City Morris Dancers.
