RSA Lower Galleries
In collaboration with The Society of Scottish Artists
Following the success of Body Parts 2004 & 2005, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Society of Scottish Artists have once again come together to produce Body Parts 3 – a long weekend celebrating the diversity of performance art in the UK today.
Through open submission & rigorous selection, Body Parts reflects the growing interest and participation in performance art amongst visual artists. The brainchild of SSA President, artist Kate Downie and RSA Exhibitions Officer Colin Greenslade, Body Parts seeks to encompass, entertain & educate audiences right across the geographical and social strata.
From seasoned performers to burgeoning talent, this year’s performance collaboration is host to 11 artists/artist groups.
All the participating artists display a kind of discipline beyond dance or theatre. “They take conceptual leaps of the imagination & make physical those emotional places you wouldn’t dare go yourself. Come, see, experience – be guaranteed not to like everything but to be changed by something. We fit no moulds, yet, beyond the stony exterior of the city’s institutional architecture, happy madness lies.” Kate Downie, SSA President.
‘From the outside it is easy to assume that the RSA building is a museum of historic art. It often comes as a surprise to the casual visitor that the contemporary and avant garde are alive and kicking in the extensive galleries at the Royal Scottish Academy.” Colin R Greenslade, Exhibitions Coordinator, Royal Scottish Academy
Body Parts is an independent festival, funded and curated by RSA and SSA artists. The SSA & RSA are two of the biggest and most influential artists’ collectives in Scotland as well as being amongst the earliest existent in Scotland with a combined history of some 300 years. Both societies seek to support and develop opportunities for the creation and presentation of new work in Scotland by artists at all stages of their careers.
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS
Friday 23 February 2007
6 –9pm Darren Farquhar, Even a Heathen, RSA Sculpture Court
Leah Lovett & Sandy Grierson, The Suit, RSA Sculpture Court
Saturday 24 February 2007
12pm Natalie Taylor and Jane Gardner, Garden Suite, RSA Lower Lobby Gallery
1pm Michelle Horacek, Still/Desire, RSA Finlay Room
2pm Karen Strang, Psychohousewife, RSA Lower Lobby Gallery
3pm Anthony Schrag, Mistake of Vision (Test 3), RSA
4pm prof-lofi and p keenan, Sonic Field, RSA Upper Galleries
Sunday 25 February 2007
1 – 5pm Lisa Keiko Kirton, Under Our Feet – Farewell to Scotland, RSA Lower Lobby
1pm Alberta Whittle, Subversive Anthropology, RSA Lower Galleries
2pm Jefford Horrigan, Past Lives, RSA Finlay Room
3pm Colette Sadler, DdumY, RSA Finlay Room
