TheDrouth
4th June 2021
Nile Koetting, Evacuation Picnic Over the last few years Tokyo and Berlin based artist Nile Koetting has been working with an immersive scenography and installation in which choreography is exchanged between […]
4th June 2021
ニューNormal? New ノーマル? In a world adapting to a global pandemic, we are positioned as passive spectators to a screen. In this collaborative performance, artists Mio Harada, Shoko Imai, and […]
4th June 2021
Shizuka Yokomizo, Artist Talk In a pre-recorded video, the artist will talk about her past works focusing on the experience of living in another culture – being displaced and encountering […]
4th June 2021
A meeting of Japanese and Scottish artists programmed as part of Glasgow International 2021 (15th – 18th June 2021) ‘Neighbouring’ is a 4-day on-line workshop programmed as a part of Glasgow […]
2nd June 2021
The analysis of the political landscape of Scotland post-election 2021 that it's been worth waiting for. Owen Dudley Edwards looks at the results and the likely legacies, and puts them in the context of such a deep time and broad space as you won't be able to read elsewhere. It's a reading which is considered and generous in its appreciations, even if forthright in its partisanship.
26th May 2021
Comic Pranksters or Guerilla Interventionists? Why would anyone from a Scheme (or an ESTATE as they pump it up down there) scheme to burn a million quid? Neil Cooper lets loose on Jimmy Cauty's installation ESTATE and all the music and art and film around it which is coming your way...
19th May 2021
In advance of our own Neighbouring project (15-18 June @ GI), one of our Scottish Japanese collaborators, Naoko Mabon, writes here of the work of Scottish artist Ilana Halperin in Japan. Halperin's mineral investigations open us up to the urgency of our understanding of and identity with the geological in the age of Anthropocene.
11th May 2021
On 17th May the British Film Institute (BFI) released a 3 Disc Blu-ray box set to celebrate fifty years since the first transmission of the BBC's 'Play for Today'. David Archibald has written an accompanying essay for the two Peter McDougall plays which appear in volume 2 of the set. Archibald's piece is a retrospective on a way of life and the art it produced -in special arrangement with the BFI we bring the essay to The Drouth readers' attention.
Mining the Moral Economy: Ewan Gibbs on Coal and Deindustrialisation by Johnny Rodger