Blurring the lines: an image from Euan Ogilvie’s The Bystander Effect
Arches Live returns to Glasgow tomorrow with the biggest ever festival yet, with two weeks of exciting events staged by emergent artists in theatre, visual and live art, sculpture and music.
Running from Tuesday September 20 until Saturday October 1, this year’s festival will see no less than 30 performances from up-and-coming talent.
There is a hugely varied body of work on offer, with shows ranging from visual storytelling to experimental exhibits and installations, and physical theatre.
Some of the weird and wonderful highlights this year include Thom Scullion’s Play(Station) which explores the positive aspects of gaming in the face of many negative press reports, and Thomas McCulloch’s show Humours (Infection), an intervention/installation in which a mass of oddly shaped sculptures take over the foyer.
A reading of Jamais Vu by the multi-award winning writer of Roadkill, Stef Smith - a story which follows one woman’s journey as she tries to stop the future that only she can see – is also set to be a big pull for the festival, as is Ross MacKay’s work in progress The Medium, in which a young medium plunges the depths of his own conscience.
The winner of the newly titled anCnoc Blackbox Graduate Visual Art Award, Glasgow School of Art graduate Euan Ogilvie, will also be exhibiting his work The Bystander Effect. Part-art-object and part-psychology-experiment, Euan tries to blur the lines between the performer and audience in this innovative work.
And I Don’t Want to Talk About It by ConFAB, a cross art-form solo performance mixing music, dance, voice-over, projection and dialogue investigating the complex interplay of politics, social and cultural norms and personal story, is also set to be a must-see.
Arches Live runs from September 20 until October 1 and full details about shows, times and prices are available from the Arches website www.thearches.co.uk or by calling the box office on 0141 565 1000.
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