Mark Briggs

Mark Briggs, artist/video artist/can be/if/trying to locate a present... [email protected],

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A Speech Disfluency, Also Spelled A Speech Dysfluency. 2013

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https://gas-tower.com/2018/04/18/episode-11-whats-with-all-this-emotional-old-hair/

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http://glasgowinternational.org/events/anneke-kampman-katherine-macbride-2/

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gas-tower episode #9 - Grey Matter

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​During the Studio Projects Residency at Market Gallery, Amelia Bywater has developed loom loom loom, a speculative publishing project scoping out the indistinct spaces of writing, speaking and performing and their translation within the actual spaces of art and work. loom loom loom will exist as a series of events focusing on forms of writing that seep out of seemingly sealed off circuits of labour and capital, and carry with them the traces of this movement.

The Party is a new performance by Mark Briggs, and comes out of a dialogue between Briggs and Bywater; a performative unsettling of notions of identity and the performed self that is shaped and marked by the pressures of familial and social norms, and economic processes. This dialogue confronts the simultaneous release and bind of new forms of relational interaction given by social media technologies. The Party will exist somewhere within the experience and intimacy of reading and the performance of writing, akin to a written recital, a screenplay. The Party is a play of two characters meeting at a party, Chris and Russ. The two protagonists perform for each other, together they rub against each other’s characters and the gendered roles expected of them.

The event is produced with support from Market Gallery and hosted during Scott Rogers’s Creative Lab Residency at the CCA. Relationships between the works themselves and spaces of making/appearing public are being written into the project as it leaches off the social entanglements that surround and prop it up.  

The Party is the first event to come out of the Studio Projects Residency. The second event for loom loom loom will be held at Market Gallery on Thursday 3 November.

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The Party

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August 25th @ CCA Glasgow, 7:00pm

gas-tower.com presents Pizza, a media performance by Neil Bickerton.

In the shifting tides of web location in the disembodied and global age of digital communication, the conditions for understanding ideas of community have shifted from a specific geo-location to wherever it is you share a particular set of interests and allegiances; it could be argued that the word community takes on an entirely new meaning. Community exists on the particular websites, blogs and technologies. Identity is corralled into loose groupings of style, fashioned from commodities, technology and media. In the peer-to-peer network there is the confusion or collapse of identity because everyone constantly speaks in the first person, ‘I’ becomes an echo chamber of being, loneliness and loss of sincerity. Pizza satirizes the loss of idealist narratives and the alienation of ‘being’ online, abstracting notions of participation and performance from any material expression.

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Episode #4, Recipe for feedback (Storegga Slides) is a video and audio collage. The video is composed of footage from camera phone stills and dv video and is part documentation and part exploration of the working production process of the collaborating artists Rob Kennedy, Pete Dowling and Karena Nomi. Episode #4,  Recipe for feedback (Storegga Slides) presents a number of questions raised by their collective work, concerning relationships between rehearsal and ‘liveness’ while examining ways in which language and non verbal sound influence the structuring of our physical and social environments.