GLASGOW OPEN HOUSE ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
YARD 89 Hill Street ‘Yard’ is a structural installation by artists Hannah Brackston and Daniele Sambo, occupying the front garden of a tenement building. This transient structure takes the form of a micro botanical glasshouse which grows out from the front of the occupants’ l at into the garden beyond, which the two artists have described as ‘parasite architecture’. Open: Sat 2 & Sun 3 May, noon–4pm (also visible from the street in daylight). STRUCTURAL PROPOSITION ≥ SENSIBLE REASONING The Shipping Container Bothy, The Walled Garden, Sawmillfi eld Street Collette Rayner and Robyn Benson explore the tension between the proposition, representation and the actual. Both artists have created work that focuses on the success and failure of the Diagram and Model in demonstrating ideas and forms. A careful balance between creating for ownership, demonstrating craftsmanship and asserting knowledge in three dimensional design is explored. Open: Sat 2– Mon 4 May, noon–6pm.
SIMSTIM 1/2, 46 Bentinck Street Sam Dransi eld, Christopher MacInnes, Stephanie Mann and Aymeric Tarrade have created an interactive installation which dismantles and reorders the sculptural fragments of a bedroom. The show will exist in a perpetual state of rearrangement, adjustment and amendment via online open-source curation to explore issues surrounding virtual realities and the ways they affect our engagement with physical realities. Open: Sat 2–Mon 4 May, noon–6pm. THE KEN DOLLS 230 Kenmure Street The Ken Dolls plays with the theme of domestic consumption through painting, i lm and performance. Using the domestic nature of their home, artists Rosie Roberts, Rachel Frances Sharpe and Andrew Houston will subvert the traditional tea party or cocktail evening to create a Brechtian performance, i lled with a variety of unsettling backdrops and archetypal characters that exist only as pictorial or sculptural motifs. Open: Sat 2 May, 7–9pm; Sun 3 & Mon 4 May, 11am–5pm.
Glasgow Open House takes place from Fri 1–Mon 4 May
114 THE LIST 2 Apr–4 Jun 2015