self-made cavalcade - Edinburgh Festival Guide

A group show comprising of work by emerging artists from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Munich in addition to our own work as artist/writer/curators; the aim being to explore the nuances of meaning in ascribing oneself to any one of these three interdependent identities and to examine artists networks in the wider social scene.

The selected artists create work which explores this social culture in some form - combining music, performance, video, sound, sculptural props and drawing in an inter-textual and interactive format.

The work is variously theatrical and satirical in examining the function and dysfunction of excess and its possibilities as a visual quality. Often calling into question the autonomy of any single defining practise in the artist’s armoury of skills, the work plays with the concept of what it is to be an artist and the multi-faceted roles one can explore though this.

The exhibition will feature a programme of performances and screenings throughout its duration; these will refer to the concept of the exhibition and to the locale of the gallery space itself. Remnants of these performances, which may serve the dual purpose of prop and of documentation, will join other video works, sculptural props and drawings, enabling the performative element of the show to function beyond the performances themselves.

We aim to highlight the strong social heritage in these cities where artists, musicians and performers often collaborate and generate cross-disciplinary praxis.