The Common Guild is collaborating with The Glasgow School of Art to present a Friday Event with artist Corin Sworn as part of the School of Fine Art’s long-running lecture series.
Corin Sworn works with performance, video, distributed narrative, and installation, using storytelling, material encounters and interactive technologies as tools of enquiry. Sworn is interested in the art gallery as a communicative apparatus, and as a site for opening investigation into technological devices. In her installations, apparently nascent technologies, from robot ‘vision’ systems to cloud computing, become framing devices through which to think, reflect and imagine.
Previous projects have employed “to-do” lists and artificial sweeteners; depicted chemical interactions as colour fields; and have explored the history of the camera as a technology that separated knowledge from the body.
Sworn is currently working with The Common Guild on the investigative performance series ‘Moving in Relation’ (2021-present). This series brings together collaborators working in movement, sound and academic thought to research material encounters with algorithmic thought, datafication and its influence on physical bodies.
Corin Sworn’s exhibitions include: Cumulo with URRA Buenos Aires (2022); OCAT Shenzhen (2021) Edinburgh Art Festival (2019); Gallery Arsenal, Poland (2016); Toronto Film Festival (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Italy (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, UK (2015); Langen Foundation, Germany (2015); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2014); Scotland+Venice at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Art Now, Tate Britain (2011).
Sworn was awarded the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2014 and a Leverhulme Prize in 2016. She is Professor of Contemporary Art at Northumbria University and works with Kendall Koppe Gallery.
The Friday Event is a visiting speaker series presented by the School of Fine Art (SoFA) at The Glasgow School of Art. With a long illustrious past and a bright future, the series hosts artists, writers, curators, academics, students and other cultural figures, welcoming and broadening dialogue and knowledge of local and international fields. Happening on campus and online, the Friday Event is always open to all.
Project Details
The Friday Event takes place on Friday 10 March at 11am – 12.30pm in person at the Reid Lecture Theatre and online.
Location
Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ
Tickets
Friday Events are open to all. Non-GSA attendees should book a free ticket below.
Attend Online
The Friday Event will be streamed online.