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WIDT, Sue Tompkins, Special Guest
WIDT are an audiovisual collaboration of two sisters from Warsaw, Antonina Nowacka and Bogumia Piotrowska. Oneiric visions guided by abstract, operatic vocals floating in the jungle of psychedelic visuals, created in real time from scratch. A unique trip into the land of forgotten, avoided and as yet unexperienced.
Sue Tompkins has been involved in the Glasgow-based post-punk band Life Without Buildings and has realised performances with the group Elisabeth CO. She presently works with solo or duo performances and drawings. Her object-collage based works can contain fur, magazine cut-outs, plastic bottles, ribbons, felt-tip pen drawings and more recently text drawings made with a typewriter, in which words slip and slide across the page with the staccato rhythm of her performances. Tompkins talks about her work in terms of editing, layering, arranging and configuring. The patterns that repeat, the overlapping of words and phrases appear as accusations, statements, commentaries, requests. The depiction of phrases from songs that are whirling in Tompkins mind, or quotes from film or mass media play an important role in her text drawings. Her selections of material are made at a subjective level that lends a density to her performances and gives them permanence through rhythm and repetition. Sarah Lowndes defines Tompkins production as being informed by the absent real and the romantic other. Apart from this, her works recall the futurist poetry and surrealist performances that took place in cafés and bars in the early 20th century. Her reactionary practice recalls autonomy. Her drawings ask for and state autonomy autonomy from Tompkins side to bring together these phrases and words, emotions and thoughts and autonomy from the audiences side to recall, think, evaluate, digest and reject to digest.
Our special guest this evening will be announced from the start of September.
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LocationThe Old Hairdressers (View)
27 Renfield Lane
Glasgow G2 6PH
United Kingdom
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