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Images: At This Place 2023 // Look again x WAHS 2023 // Look Again Festival 2018 - 2019

// What’s On //

 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Look Again x
Aberdeen Performing Arts

Look Again X Aberdeen Performing Arts are committed to spotlighting and supporting LGBTQIA+ creatives through a new cabaret event. This collaboration aims to amplify the presence of queer artists in cultural programming in the city. Creative practitioners are invited to respond to selected objects from the RGU Art & Heritage Collections by using them as inspiration to propose new performance works for the cabaret, those objects can be considered individually or as a set. We welcome applications from performers of all backgrounds and creative disciplines including (but not limited to) visual artists, musicians, poets, drag and cabaret performers and dancers.  If this is your first time applying for a commission, we'd love to hear from you!

* Deadline for applications *
// 14 April 2024 //

Click below for more information and to download the full brief.


 

ENGAGE
At Gray’s School of Art

Engage is a new creative development programme designed at Gray’s School of Art and delivered in their purpose-built studios and workshops by experienced practitioners and alumni of the school

It is designed to support both beginners interests in art and design, alongside continued professional development for those seeking to enhance their skillsets and expertise. 

Courses include Portfolio Building, evening classes and a series of Art weekenders.

To find out more about ENGAGE and sign up to workshops - please click below:


 

 

// Look Back at Look Again //

 
Look and Learn

Look & Learn
2016

Look and Learn was a professional development programme co-designed and delivered by Look Again and Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council. This new approach to professional development for emerging visual art and design talent in Aberdeen City and Shire was supported by Robert Gordon University and Youth Arts Collective North East (YACNE), as part of Creative Scotland’s ‘Time to Shine’ initiative.

The Intended outcomes were increased skills, knowledge and confidence, and there was an aspiration from the outset that the selected young creative would continue to practice as a collective in Aberdeen, addressing recognised issues of creative talent retention in the region.

Lead Artist: Jason Nelson

STACK Artist Collective:
Laura Reilly // Claire Paul // Claire Burnett // Grant Anderson // Jess Connor // Donald Butler


Emily Speed_Facades Fronts 2018_photo by Grant Anderson

// Facades/Fronts //
Emily Speed
2018

Facades/Fronts was a commission for Look Again by Artist Emily Speed working in Partnership with Citymoves Dance Agency. Speed developed the work with choreographer Jack Webb and a group of 13 young female dancers, producing a live performance during Look Again Festival, costumes and a film.

The work took the Year of Young People as a starting point and drew upon the architecture of Aberdeen, using architectural façade as a metaphor for exploring the forming of one’s own identity, particularly as a woman. The dancers performed together, their bodies contrasting with the imposing granite forms that have historically housed patriarchal civic activity.

Dancers: Carly Campbell, Xenoa Campbell-Ledgister, Iseabail Duncan, Katie McFarlane, Melissa Heywood, Bethany Ransom, Isla Reid, Ella Skinner, Neila Stephens, Katie Taylor, Kirsty Tennion, Kirsten Walker.

www.emilyspeed.co.uk

Flag Up

Flag Up Aberdeen
2018

Flag Up Aberdeen was devised by a group six design practitioners, brought together through a micro-residency programme under the mentorship of Look Again and Marc Cairns from Pidgin Perfect. The project spoke to people all across Aberdeen to find out what it means to like here; what they are proud of and what they dream of for the city. The group gathered these voices and turned them into a series of flags which were located in the city centre, encouraging people to pause and reflect on this ongoing discussion.

Practitioners:
Steven Affleck // Madeleine Edwards // Isla Goldie // Shirin Karbor // Ruth Kirby Organ // Becky Orlinski

www.flagupaberdeen.co.uk


Love at First Sight 2019

// Love at First Sight //
Morag Myerscough
2019

For her first project in Scotland, Morag presented Love at First Sight, a large scale structure; part pavilion, part-stage, that encircled the Mercat Cross in the historic Castlegate, animating it with her signature super colourful work. Love at First Sight puts Aberdeen firmly at the centre of Myerscough’s family narrative. The journey north east was an emotional re-connection with the city where her parents first met, in a chance encounter on the stairs of an Aberdeen boarding house. This new work referenced that pivotal moment and highlighted the traditional role of the Mercat Cross as a meeting point and place of exchange.

Love At First Sight was hand painted by the community and we were, and still are, indebted to the 30 hard working volunteers, without whom this project could not have been realised.

Morag worked with Northeast-based poet Jo Gilbert, who wrote new Doric poems which were incorporated into the structure and curated a series of performances from the local Aberdeen spoken word, comedy and music scenes. Jo also collaborated with Aberdeen Multi Cultural Centre and these new works were powerfully emotional in their outpouring of love for the city.

www.moragmyerscough.com


Super Monday Club

Super Monday Club
2018

Super Monday Club was a series of workshops designed by STACK Artist Collective for Look Again Festival and Denis Law’s Streetsport, to add art activities to the sports already provided by the highly successful Cruyff Court located at Catherine Street Community Centre.

Super Monday Club workshops were organised by:
Claire Burnett // Claire Paul // Grant Anderson // Grant Anderson


John Walter_The Fourth Wall 2019_photo by Grant Anderson

// The Fourth Wall //
John Walter
2019

The Fourth Wall by John Walter was a 360° immersive video exhibited in Virtual Reality. His first VR work, it built on his experience of working in video, animation, computer-aided design, collage, painting and sculpture but abbreviated these approaches into a completely new kind of maximalist aesthetic by compressing and hybridising them.

The setting for The Fourth Wall was the extraordinary Marischal College. It featured within the composition, recurring as a leitmotif that changes scale and character over time much like a melody varies within a song. Alongside historical references such as the obelisk that once stood in the quad, and Aberdeen as the site of a typhoid outbreak in the 1960s, traced to Fray Bentos corned beef, images and slogans from John’s repertoire were conjoined in a complex adaptive system of saturated colour that created a dizzying immersive experience of the site.

www.johnwalter.net


 

A full round up of Look Again Festival 2019, which ran from 7-16 June in Aberdeen. Filming and editing by Grant Anderson and Kieran McCarroll.

 
 
 
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