The Glasgow School of Art

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS WORKSHOP HAD TO BE CANCELLED.

Workshop: Bags upon Bags Upon Bags
Led by Josh Blackwell

Thursday 9 January 2014, 2-4pm
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

 “Futurist clothing will be:
-Dynamic
-Asymmetrical
-Nimble
-Simple and comfortable
-Joyful
-Illuminating
-Short-lived
-Variable”

This paraphrasing of Giacomo Balla’s 1914 “Male Futurist Dress Manifesto” will serve as a guideline for the workshop. Using plastic carrier bags, along with paint, scissors, and thread, we will construct a sculpture/garment/performative object. Work stations will be set up in the gallery, for ironing, painting, cutting, sewing, and assembling the bags, with an aim toward creating a large collaborative "collage" work made of the bags whose function and purpose will be determined by the group.

We will provide some materials but please bring some plastic bags with you and any acrylic paint and threads you would like to use. To book your place, please email exhibitions@gsa.ac.uk

Originally from New Orleans, Josh Blackwell (b.1972) is an artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA from Bennington College in Vermont and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He has participated in exhibitions at PS1/MoMA, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, and EAST international. In 2004-05 he received an International Fellowship from the Delfina Studio Trust in London, and has received two fellowships from Yaddo, (2004, 2006). He teaches in the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He has been represented by Kate MacGarry in London since 2004.

Josh will also give a talk on Friday 10 Januray 2014 11:30am in the Mackintosh lecture theatre.