New Order I Other Spaces, Kelvin Hall Ballroom, Argyle Street, Glasgow, 2 — 12 August 2018
As part of Festival 2018 — the cultural programme accompanying the inaugural Glasgow 2018 European Championships — Horsecross Arts announces multi-site solo presentation New Order I Other Spaces by London-based artist Jo Longhurst. Co-curated by Tiffany Boyle and Iliyana Nedkova, the project explores the gymnastic body across photography, moving image and installation, presented simultaneously in Glasgow and Perth. New commissions produced in collaboration with gymnasts of all ages and responding to archival research take form in new moving image work, and responses to the life and work of dancer, choreographer and teacher Margaret Morris.
New Order I Other Spaces engages with ideas of perfection, gender, gesture, and inter-generational understandings of movement. Performative interventions were staged as part of both the Kelvin Hall and Threshold artspace opening previews.
Works exhibited: A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs under Perspex; Cross, double-faced fabric banner; Pinnacle, 11 tessellating photographs; Peak, photograph in box frame; Space-Force Construction No. 1 (United States of America), Space-Force Construction No. 2 (China), Space-Force Construction No. 3 (India), 6 photographs in sculptural structures; What is to be done, performance intervention with 22 gymnasts, leotards, cangas, geometric mats; Double portrait (after MM), archive image on silk organza, powder-coated steel; Semana da Raça, reproduction of archive photograph in box frame; Untitled, open-frame sculptural structures; Untitled (cangas), bodyscans and pure colours on cotton voile, Momentum (toward a fiscal crisis), 6 flags.