* POSTPONED FOLLOWING MAJOR INCIDENT AT MACKINTOSH BUILDING ON 15/6/18 *
Prabhakar Pachpute
Reid Ground Floor Corridor
Part of Political Animal programme CCA/GSA
Curated by Viviana Checchia
Book by Johnny Rodger
22 June - 19 August 2018
Preview: 21 June, 5 - 7pm - POSTPONED
This summer’s exhibition at The Glasgow School of Art Reid Ground Floor Corridor, will focus on the bestial, existential and instinctual side of our political and civic life. The space will be transformed into an assembly platform created by a single artist, Prabhakar Pachpute, and inspired by the literary work of Johnny Rodger. For the past few years, Johnny Rodger has been using the form of the modern prose poem fable in order to come at the question of the ‘contemporary’ through the very different angle of literary form. There is now a collection of twenty of these modern fables. They are assembled together in the book which accompanies the show, also titled Political Animal.
For the occasion of this exhibition, Prabhakar Pachpute presents a new series of work commissioned by GSA, CCA, The Drouth, Leverhulme International Network of Contemporary Studies and Prince Claus Fund, to accompany the publishing of the book Political Animal. The exhibition consists of 10 drawings by Pachpute as well as a series of spatial interventions including large scale drawings across the walls of the interior of the Reid Building. The work is at the same time conceptually based on Johnny Rodger’s writing and site responsive to Glasgow and the Reid Gallery.
This show will be part of an event presented with the same title, Political Animal, and focused on the phenomenon of the Contemporary City. Glasgow School of Art and the Centre for the Contemporary Arts (CCA) have invited a collection of international artists, writers, performers, academics, musicians and activists from all over the globe to come together on the 22nd & 23rd of June 2018.
Supported by Esmee Fairbairn, CCA, The Drouth, The Glasgow School of Art, Leverhulme International Network of Contemporary Studies and Prince Claus Fund.
