Grafting: CCA Glasgow, Intermedia/The Pipe Factory

Grafting (Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow hosted by The Pipe Factory)

Room with white pillars, the floor is plywood. Along the length of the wall is a black and white floor to ceiling print containing multiple photographic images and large raspberries. Rectangular metal and wood sculptures hang on the wall. Jamie Kane

A printed wallpaper in black and white in the centre is a close-up of someone looking to the right. On top are two rectangular metal and wood sculptures with dried flowers between. Jamie Kane

An old factory building with arches windows, white pillars and plywood floor. There is a wooden bench and an audio system. Jamie Kane

A rectangular stainless steel and plywood sculpture with dried flowers pressed between. Jamie Kane

Grafting: Digital print on Blueback billboard paper, 4-Channel Audio, Dried Supermarket Flowers, Stainless Steel, Stained Plywood, Fixings

Audio 15m looped

The exhibition comprised of a 4-channel audio work, digitally printed mural and series of sculptures, formed an intimate network of people, things and places. In the audio work, myself and my parents tell stories of ephemeral moments where time, place, human and non-human coalesce. These relationships were framed through reference to the horticultural technique of grafting. Initially the work stemmed from Lori Gruen’s notion of Entangled Empathy, a relational attention between self, other and situation in order to create emotive/cognitive means of improving and understanding a situation. As well as Stanley Cavell’s claim that an equality between people and things can exist in cinema, as the camera perceives both as equal. These lines of thought developed into a mural comprising of multiple images, a ‘film’ in which the element of time was removed making it exist in a perpetual present.

Thanks to Adam Campbell, June Bryson, Ian Kane and everyone at CCA