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es where family members do a turn or a party piece through song or word this sparked ideas of creating a cross generational event where celebrating local talent of many sorts exploring made in easterhouse further we visited the musical group at kelvin college who are a group of young people who meet each tuesday and wednesday we were made feel very welcome by those attending and came across jack bestow a young musican in the group as a result jason spent some time recording with jack and the results can be found here i have been artist in residence at platform in easterhouse for nearly a year now working with groups from housing associations from the surrounding area our made in easterhouse exhibition is currently on until 27th november at platform the exhibition celebrates and elevates making in easterhouse the year long project is both a celebration of the ubiquity of human creativity and a material survey of its small scale intimate and place based manifestations deirdre has explored the theme of made in through a previous residency in timespan helmsdale over the course of the year through sewing bees informal maker gatherings and map making sessions made in easterhouse became a hub of community based making and the memories and lineages of craft knowledge contained within it it honours both the conviviality and the individuality of easterhouse s maker culture and the myriad forms it takes and has taken throughout the history of the area the exhibition includes examples of knitwear sewing dressmaking painting ceramics jam making and make do and mend knowhow each object is presented as an artifact of value many kinds of value and as a gesture of respect both for materials and the handmade and for the investment in place that they reflect text by ruth little in addition i have been collaborating with photographer colin tennant and am currently collaborating with jason singh this week throughout my residency i have been documenting all things made in easterhouse which includes hand crafted items but also snapshots of nature made in the area from 10th 20th october i am collaborating with jason to explore the micro of easterhousee in sound visuals and textile we will be blogging daily on our progress and discoveries you can find jasons blog here i am currently artist in residence at platform arts in easterhouse working with older groups across the housing associations in the area research into both past and present aspects of easterhouse is leading towards a range of digitally printed tablecloths for a spring tea dance at the venue social media is playing a large part in documenting creativity in the area through map_making instagram and twitter accounts and the hashtag madeineasterhouse the tablecloths will be in use at a tea dance on 1st april and part of an installation in collaboration with sound sculptor jason singh at outskirts festival 23rd april at platform arts photos by alan dimmick the kildas exhibition is now installed at glasgow school of art until 28th february i will be doing a lunch time talk on monday 22 february 2016 13 15 14 00 bourdon lecture theatre bourdon building 167 renfrew street glasgow g3 6rq in an illustrated talk deirdre nelson will present her journey to the kildas of scotland new zealand and australia and introduce the saints met along the way as a textile artist deirdre explored new ways of working through jewellery techniques her research processes and materials will be explored in a humourous talk of her 2014 commonwealth project all welcome no need to book the kildas will be on exhibit from 19th january to 4 february at the reid building glasgow school of art more information here the two names of the island group hirte and st kilda have aroused discussion and controversy for over 200 years and much studying of maps and books can be done to investigate their origins there are many myths surrounding the origins of the name st kilda but one fact is clear there is no saint kilda on a modern day pilgrimage in search of saint kilda i travelled to the st kildas of scotland australia and new zealand the resulting works reward and celebrate saints met along the way silver coins from scotland australia and new zealand have been repurposed into medals these are combined with wool from each st kilda region from soay and merino sheep and kildas sand embedded in bio resin the ongoing project links both past and present north and south and the people who inhabit the kildas the exhibition will travel to comar on the isle of mull glasgow school of art and barony centre west kilbride the kildas was part of the glasgow 2014 cultural programme the cultural programme is a partnership between the glasgow 2014 organising committee glasgow life and creative scotland this is a story of an archipelago named for a saint who didn t exist which became the prison of a woman whose funeral preceded her death who gave her name to a boat which sank after sailing to a nation that hadn t been born and whose first inhabitants it didn t acknowledge a ship of fools maybe a ship of storytellers the islands were named for the non existent saint the woman for the islands the boat for the woman and 2 suburbs in distant parts of the commonwealth were named for the boat these islands these suburbs these stories are spun from three of the six st kildas on earth each is a real place of stone and sea a place where indigenous languages shaped to their landscapes were eroded by a rising tide of english and each is simultaneously a fabrication misnamed for something that came before it a progressively receding echo of an error which carried a myth on currents that bore the scottish diaspora away from home during the clearances of the 19th century it s made by weavers of textile song and sound and the form it takes here tonight is just one of the many forms it s taken over thousands of years history is an unbroken current of material and energy flows and in those flows vortices sometimes form and these spinning cycles these kildas these loops in time have a structure which is complex ubiquitous beautiful temporary and true the world spins we spin migrating seabirds like the arctic tern loop the spinning world on st kilda men with loops or snares caught seabirds on the high cliffs and stacs loops of wool made socks and sweaters with patterns like tunes carried from island to island in gaelic bho ghlùin gu glùin from knee to knee knitted things pass like stories from person to person like fishing nets hand over hand constantly maintained mended adapted navigational lines linking place to place and bringing us home again the word yarn is connected to the old norse garn or gut there are 74 gaelic words for yarn and the winding of yarn human beings have been spinning yarn from fibre for 20 000 years spinning yarns from their guts for at least as long binding meaning into their lives by looping the past into the present the world within into the world beyond wherever we are on earth there s a st kilda behind us and a st kilda ahead mythical st kildas we have brought into being collaboratively through acts of place making stories extend us they strengthen and connect us they propel our migrations and loop us back into the places we ve left behind ruth little www thekildas com data sea sign and song sleeping starfish at the glad cafe 15th october work in progress event many thanks to everyone who came along to the glad cafe for sleeping starfish a work in progress event in collaboration with inge thomson kerri whiteside of flora and fauna scotland spoke to us about marine protection i presented recent work exploring bird data and knit and experimented with creating an animated backdrop for inges performance the projection played with ideas of graphs coastlines and knitting patterns inge thomson and fraser fifield performed beautiful new music all was bsl signed by karen forbes sleeping starfish is a work of environmental advocacy and a love song to an island and its waters and its people a couple of weeks ago deirdre steered me to a talk by the writer taiye selasi on identity and belonging how can i come from a country she asked how can a human being come from a concept fair isle is not a concept it s a place a place of elemental forces and ragged boundaries unprotected from fog wind and storm but equally uninsulated from the actual rhythms and processes of this world you can love the concept of a nation but you can only know a nation through its real places and people through embodied relationship through a sense of place through intimacy with its patterns my experience said taiye selasi is where i m from fair isle s patterns are changing there are new arrivals in its waters new absences from its stacs and skies but there is always a thread on fair isle that knits sea to land and land to mind and body in tradition in memory and in practice resilience that most coveted attribute in our times means adaptive capacity maintaining identity despite change it s a learned skill and it lies in relationship these makers and maintainers share their experience of island resilience so that tonight we can all be from fair isle ruth little 2015 listen in to bbc culture show 38 mins in surrounded by a relentless sea fair isle is an island of strong traditions and fierce beauty celebrating this and running in support of the island s bid for marine protected status two artists are knitting together waves of sound and yarn stories and starfish the project also celebrates creative generations of inges family through stories music and knit exploring coding and counting both inge and myself have been exploring the craft and ecology of fair isle inspired by the many aspects of data counting on fair isle i am counting birds and stitches and translating bird counts into knitting patterns the work is experimental at this stage but i hope to develop work which will become part of inges performance sleeping starfish will present a work in progress event as part of luminate festival 7 pm glad cafe inge thomson frazer fifield kerri whiteside deirdre nelson i am curently in fair isle and have spent the last two days with collaborator inge thomson although i have been to the island before it s been a real privilege to be on the isle with inge and to experience the island with her last year i had the opportunity to travel to fair isle with writer ruth little film maker andy crabb writer and actor peter cutts and photographer jennifer wilcox as part of the sea change project with capefarewell inspirations gathered on that trip have been blogged here this year i return to continue my research and refine ideas in a collaboration with inge thomson inge has been experimenting with translating the coding and pattern of fair isle knitting into sound and i have been very interested in the colour and softness of landscape ecology and waters of fair isle gut weed coating the edges of the rock graphs of bird sightings and sonagrams of seabirds are providing lots of ideas in digital print and stitch fair isle s maritime environment is very rich both at the natural environment and human community level the two aspects are inextricably linked and a threat to the first has serious implications for the second the fair isle community has witnessed an erosion of that richness and is concerned that without concerted action the resource will be devalued or lost fair isle has a wide range of maritime attributes and issues which are important and deserve urgent measures for these assets to be safeguarded the fair isle marine environment and tourism initiative fimeti was set up by the people of fair isle to help achieve this in 2012 the fair isle community presented a petition to the scottish parliament petitions committee asking for the council of europe diploma condition that fair isle waters should be designated a marine protected area be honoured and implemented the island is now being considered by the scottish government as a demonstration and research marine protected area mpa in 2014 we still await the outcome fimeti gunglesund inge thomson dips hydrophones into the water at gunglesund we will be presenting a work in progress event 15th october 2015 at the glad cafe in glasgow photograph by robin gillanders the costume is now complete for sing sign in collaboration with hanna tuulikki for the upcoming performance of sign sign in edinburgh arts festival 2015 inspired by a map of edinburgh hannas graphic drawing of the royal mile has been digitally printed onto tyvek to form a scroll down the front of the costume in addition collars and cuffs on loan from national trust of scotland have inspired exagerated tyvek collars these decorate felt baroque inspired coats flashes of gold and lace can be seen in pleats and cuffs the performance and installation sing sign a close duet is a vocal and gestural suite devised for the historic closes of edinburgh s royal mile in these confined medieval spaces two performers present a playful baroque scenario their face to face encounter is also relayed in a film installation at gladstone s land 30 july 30 august composed and choreographed in response to a street map dating from 1765 the street layout provides a visual score the music takes the form of a wordless hocket a musical device where the melody is split between two voices divided between the singers in accordance with the closes as they branch off from the arterial high street t he choreography spells out street names in a back and forth progression weaving together british sign language mimetic hand gesture and exaggerated body language reflecting on the nature of dialogue and bringing together the seemingly opposed forms of singing and signing tuulikki explores the diverse non sensical ways in which we experience the city immersed in sensory data and mediated by the language s we have access to sing sign is performed by daniel padden and hanna tuulikki and 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