Following from an initial announcement in December, Glasgow International, the Scottish biennial festival of contemporary art, has announced the full programme for its 11th edition. The event will take place from 5 to 21 June under the new direction of Helen Nisbet.
The festival will explore ‘artistic experimentation, personal and ancestral memory, intergenerational kinship and resonances that cross cultures, and trace the textures and rhythms of different lands and waters.’
It will include new work by Kate Cooper, Tanoa Sasraku, Luke Fowler, Renèe Helèna Browne, Mandy McIntosh and Aqsa Arif, and presentations by Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Jericho Mars, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rae-Yen Song, Anya Paintsil, James Gladwell, Joanna Piotrowska and more.
Alongside the festival projects, the biennial will host the second iteration of ‘Gatherings’: a series of free events. It will also launch a new initiative, Special Projects, aimed at celebrating organisations embedded within specific local communities in Glasgow. The inaugural participants are Fire Stories, a multimedia project in Easterhouse, and A Very Human Thing To Do, a collaborative arts and social action project organised with young people in Pollokshields.
The full programme can be found online.
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