A spot of voodoo jazz at Glasgow's Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre
Hundreds of carved figures and pieces of old scrap perform an incredible choreography to haunting music and synchronised light, telling the funny and tragic stories of the human spirit as it struggles against the relentless circles of life and death.
Places to see in ( Glasgow - UK )
Places to see in ( Glasgow - UK )
Glasgow is a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland's western Lowlands. It's famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture, a rich legacy of the city's 18th–20th-century prosperity due to trade and shipbuilding. Today it's a national cultural hub, home to institutions including the Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and National Theatre of Scotland, as well as acclaimed museums and a thriving music scene.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, and third largest in the United Kingdom. Historically part of Lanarkshire, it is now one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Inhabitants of the city are referred to as Glaswegians.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burgh, and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, Glasgow became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies.
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the Second City of the British Empire for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, although many cities argue the title was theirs.
Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and is also well known in the sporting world for the football rivalry of the Old Firm between Celtic and Rangers. Glasgow is also known for Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city.
Glasgow has a large urban transport system, mostly managed by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT). The city has many bus services; since bus deregulation almost all are provided by private operators though SPT part-funds some services. The principal bus operators within the city are: First Glasgow, McGill's Buses, Stagecoach West Scotland and Glasgow Citybus. The main bus terminal in the city is Buchanan bus station.
Glasgow has the most extensive urban rail network in the UK outside of London with rail services travelling to a large part of the West of Scotland.
Alot to see in ( Glasgow - UK ) such as :
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Riverside Museum
Glasgow Science Centre
Burrell Collection
People's Palace, Glasgow
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasgow Green
Glasgow Necropolis
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
House for an Art Lover
George Square
Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery
Kelvingrove Park
Gallery of Modern Art
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Ibrox Stadium
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
Celtic Park
Scotland Street School Museum
Glasgow Cathedral
The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Provand's Lordship
Pollok House
Scottish Football Museum
Holmwood House
Glasgow Tower
Centre for Contemporary Arts
Tollcross, Glasgow
M&D's
Mugdock Country Park
Rouken Glen
Glasgow Central Mosque
Govan Old Parish Church
McLellan Galleries
Pollok Country Park
Bellahouston Park
Willow Tearooms
Mitchell Library
Victoria Park, Glasgow
Mackintosh House
Tenement House
The Tall Ship at Riverside
Glasgow University Library
Linn Park
Wonder World Soft Play
Alexandra Park, Glasgow
Cathkin Braes Country Park
( Glasgow - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Glasgow . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Glasgow - UK
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Jock's Joke [Sharmanka Sessions]
Video and audio from Olifant Collective's collaboration with Glasgow's Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, in which the band created and performed a musical score to accompany Eduard Bersudsky's unique Kinetic Sculptures.The band created songs and soundscapes inspired by the individual kinemats.
Jock's Jokes:
(1993)
This is the first kinemat built by Eduard in Scotland. He discovered new materials – the beautiful remnants of British industrial design. Most of it came from the Scottish Borders chimney sweep Jock Redburn. This work is dedicated to Jock and the addiction we share – the love for old scrap. [sharmanka.com]
Lyrics:
[Olifant Collective]
In and out of loving he would wilt inside,
So he'd have another drink, another step outside,
His castle and his courtyard and his kind sized mind,
Where the sheets are all the colours of a sickly child off school.
Give another inch and you can wrench a smile,
Bearing mouldy teeth and a breath of bile,
A skin with bloody botches, and a yellowy stye,
A crooked silly walk where every step's a mile.
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Music and video arrangement by Olifant Collective, footage of Sharmanka the property of Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre:
103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD
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Lizelle Bisschoff on the highlights of the Africa in Motion film festival
At the African Film Festival, Cordoba (FCAT): Lizelle Bisschoff, Chair of the Africa in Motion film festival in Edinburgh and Glasgow talks about the highlights of the forthcoming 2012 event.
The Urge For Going - Songs in Many Tongues, Glasgow 2014
Songs in Many Tongues took place at Glasgow's Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre on 3rd June 2014. The idea to have an evening of melodies from around the world transpired in response to previous events highlighting the joys of poetry in many different languages: even if one did not understand all that was being said, the beauty of each linguistic song still carried a great deal of meaning to the audience. To those who organised those poetry happenings - Marzanna Antoniak, Anna Strzalkowska and John Cavanagh - it seemed only logical to expand the concept to feature music from different geographical and cultural backgrounds... The Urge For Going, originally by Joni Mitchell, was sung by one of our friends.
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Glasgow's St Andrew's Day Torchlight Parade
A short video produced by Aura, shot and edited on iPhone 8, during the parade to send to press, demonstrating the quality of the event, community spirit and the impact as it snaked through the west end of Glasgow from Maryhill along to Finnieston.
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Torchlight parade 2018
St Andrews Day parade, Glasgow West End. Credit: Laura Sutherland / West End Festival
kinetic theatre angelic
short promotional video of Angelic, performed by Kinetic theatre
Master and Margarita
A genuine Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre upload.
Tower of Babel
A genuine Sharmanka upload
Sputnik
We did this project last year - it was seen by 80,000 people at street festivals in Britain.
A genuine Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre upload.
PhantasieMechanik Opening (with bells)
Sunset. February 22, 2008. Get a bell and ring it everyday for a year at sunrise and sunset. This installment:This evening was the opening of the PhantasieMechanik at phaeno, the science museum in Wolfsburg ( found one visitor just hanging around the entrance when it was time to ring the bells and he was happy to participate.
We've been here at phaeno all week setting up for the show. It's a great show. Norman (normantuck.com) has several pieces in it. There is an incredible collection of small mechanical sculptures from Great Britain called the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. (
Arthur Ganson has selections from his work ( and there is a wonderfully romantic and theatrical installation from Russian artists living in Glasgow called Sharmanka Theatre. ( Sculptor Eduard Bersudsky and theatre maker Tatyana Jakovskaya established Sharmanka in 1988. They were joined by lighting designer and technical director Sergey Jakovsky in 1992.
Anyone near Wolfsburg, Germany between now and the end of June should come to phaeno. It's a great interactive museum and it's right across from the AutoStadt and giant Volkswagen factory.
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Squash-inspired performance work takes over art museum
(21 Mar 2018) LEADIN:
A unique installation artwork, featuring performers with squash (gourd) inspired costumes, is set to take over a London art museum for six months.
London-born Anthea Hamilton is calling the shots at Tate Britain, showcasing a new artwork in response to its sprawling gallery.
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Meet 'The Squash.'
Turner Prize-nominated artist Anthea Hamilton has transformed the heart of London's Tate Britain art museum into an elaborate stage.
At its centre is these performers, dressed in colourful squash-inspired costumes.
Hamilton has also installed over 7,000 white tiles across the museum's sprawling Duveens Gallery, acting as podiums for a number of works from its collection, including sculptures by British artist Henry Moore.
The works were selected for their organic form.
The gallery has changed in numerous ways and as well as physically changing how the gallery looks and feels, says curator Linsey Young.
There's what I've been calling like a psychic transformation, it feels emotionally different to be in this space now.
Tate says the work was inspired by a found photograph Hamilton discovered, the original source of the image had been lost.
The artist worked with fashion house LOEWE to design seven costumes for the performers, they all incorporate the colours and shapes of different varieties of squash and pumpkin.
The performers are free to select their costume each day.
The most important thing in the whole installation is the performer, says Young.
And she's described the artworks from the collection as being the set design.
And that's not to be disrespectful, but they're here to enhance the experience of the performer as they're in this space.
We talked about it at installation as this being the Squash's or performer's house. When you're on this tiled floor, you're in their environment and those Tate collection works inhabit that environment with them.
Hamilton is known for her bold, often humorous works that incorporate references to art, design, fashion and popular culture.
Art critic Estelle Lovatt believes there's a strong feminist message running through 'The Squash' too.
It's really unusual this exhibition, because it's taking the role of the artist and making it applicable to women, she says.
Here we're in a space that looks as though it's a white space inside a home, maybe a kitchen, maybe a bathroom, and it's placing art in it, which is the magic of it really, to show that art is all around us. Be it in the gallery or at home.
The work is being staged as part of the annual Tate Britain Commission.
Every year, a contemporary British artist is invited to create a new artwork in response to Tate's echoing Duveen Galleries.
These performers will be busy. The work is set to be on display from 10am till 6pm every day and will run till 7 October 2018.
This is a wonderful collaboration between sculpture, performance, contemporary art, art of the past, says Lovatt.
There has always been performance, before we looked at movies on our telephone, our mobile phone, we used to go to Shakespeare's Globe, we used to see plays, Greek tragedies in the theatre, so this is bringing all that history back to today. And that will help us understand our future.
'The Squash' opens at London's Tate Britain art museum tomorrow (22 March).
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Scotland Creates: Museum nan Eilean - Do you dare visit?
This film was made by Ruairidh Macleod and Zoee Macinnes, young volunteers at Museum nan Eilean, as part of the Scotland Creates project.
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Creative Scotland, Scotland Creates gives young people aged 16-24 years old the chance to work with five partner museums and other creative organisations. One of the aims of the project is to encourage young people to use technology to connect, collaborate and get creative. So we asked volunteers from each of the five partners to create a short film to promote their museum to other young people.
Find out more about the project at nms.ac.uk/scotlandcreates
Music: ‘Ghost Story’ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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