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DARRAGH AMELIA 

Audio-visual practitioner Darragh Amelia interrogates power structures across film cultures. An obsession with memory underpins her work to preserve, produce and programme audio-visual content. She teams up with Alma Simba to present as a point of departure, a joint exploration of intimacy through the prism of belonging and landscape.

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KIM BOHIE 김보희

Korean and western painting traditions collide in Bohie’s creative practice. Her tranquil paintings prompt spiritual reflection and are inspired by her home island of Jeju, South Korea. A new series of paintings that explore the subtleties of landscape brings her to Glasgow.

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BOBBI CAMERON 

Based on the Scottish Isle Of Seil, Cameron works with sound installation, moving image and performance as a conduit for her Celtic shamanic practice. With her friend Owain Train McGilvary, Cameron exhibits two moving-image works anchored in forgotten pasts and imagined worlds.

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DELAINE LE BAS 

The personal and the political intertwine in Le Bas’ multi-disciplinary practice as she aligns her experiences as a Romani person with perspectives on nationhood, land, gender and discrimination. Her installation series Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding, combines psychology, mythology and archival ephemera. 

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ENZO CAMACHO & AMI LIEN 

Hailing from the Philippines and US, this artist duo scrutinise local practices of labour and capital through a post-colonial perspective. Their new work, Offerings For Escalante, is an experimental documentary that shares their long-term research about the island of Negros. 

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FARANG 

Mina Heydari-Waite creates a moving image and sculptural installation that traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran. Juxtaposing childhood footage with material about the British presence in the region, Farang reflects on family life against the wider socio-political agenda.  

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SANDRA GEORGE

The late George was a black social documentary photographer who captured community life in Scotland. Her black-and-white stills convey the value of accessibility, care and equality, both in the arts and in the workplace. 

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KEITH HARING
While the late Keith Haring is best known for his colourful graffiti motifs, a new exhibition dives into works that weren’t known to the mainstream media. Subway drawings, studio pieces and more reveal Haring’s interest in semiotics and language.   

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CINDY ISLAM 

A Sufi sound artist and performer, Islam wears a burqa to convey her anarchy. She confronts Islamophobia and rejects the paradoxical myth of cultural assimilation. Made in collaboration with Kyalo Searle-Mbullu, Listening For Love explores their multicultural experiences of sound.  

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JOSIE PERRY

Glasgow-based artist Perry predominantly works with drawing. In partnership with four artists, she presents Where a castle meets the sky, an exhibition that uses autobiography to explore queerness and chronic illness.  

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JOSIE KO

Sculptor KO works with unconventional methods and media to reimagine the black female body. She creates larger-than-life, glittery sculptures with irregular limbs that contradict western ideals. Teaming up with artist Kialy Tihngang, KO presents fir gorma, a research-led exhibition about black British history. 

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LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN 

The self-described ‘audio investigator’ weaves together urgent political narratives to create sonic live performances. Abu Hamdan presents three Live Audio Essays which incorporate percussion, footage and sound design, all specially designed to support the audience to listen deeply. 

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KALI MALONE 

Composer and sound artist Kali Malone has created a site-specific performance for Glasgow Cathedral. Her work animates the 12th-century building’s sonic, architectural and social history through experimental compositions. 

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NADIA ROSSI 

Based in Glasgow, Rossi embraces collaborative performance and play to create space for social and political reimagining. All Walls Will Fall, a project that she’s involved in, is inspired by the Palestinian Resistance. 

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YOKO ONO 

The Japanese avant-garde artist’s Wish Tree becomes a focal point of a new temporary orchard at the Glasgow Women’s Library. The garden has been grown for visitors to express grief and imagine peaceful futures.

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BELLADONNA PALOMA

Based in Shetland, Paloma describes herself as an artist, poet and trans witch. Working with Rabindranath X Bhose and Oren Shoesmith, Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies is a solstice ritual that explores what boglands can teach about deep time and the tyranny of productivity.  

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QUEEN’S PARK GLASSHOUSE 

Built at the turn of the 20th century, Queen’s Park Glasshouse is located in Shawlands. During June, the dome hosts group exhibition Unnatural* Urges featuring Laura Lulika, Hang Linton, Jack Murphy and Clay AD.

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ROSIE’S DISOBEDIENT PRESS

The small independent publisher reveals Teneu, a book of commissioned texts that probes the mythology of Glasgow city’s forgotten medieval mother, St Enoch. The publication interrogates the dominant mythological narratives and asserts St Enoch’s place in the city’s cultural fabric.

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JOEY SIMONS

Writer and artist Simons investigates the histories of land and housing in the north of Glasgow. His new body of work, Beyond The Forbidden Gate, addresses suppressed working-class histories and their relevance to contemporary social struggles. 

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TAKO TAAL 

Taal works with video, watercolour, installation and performance to destabilise historical records. After Kinte, her newly commissioned performance piece, takes place on five occasions throughout Glasgow International.

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UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 

Glasgow Uni participates in The Open Museum, an ongoing project which takes kits containing objects from Glasgow Museums collections out into the community. The objects become a catalyst for storytelling and creative activities.   

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VEGA FOUNDATION 

The artist collective cultivates new ideas and connections through encounters with artists’ film and video. The Vega Foundation joins forces with Assumption Studios and the Scottish Government’s EXPO fund to support the moving image exhibition, Anticipate, sublimate. 

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ANGEL WALKER

Artist, horticulturist and co-founder of the Rumpus Room, Walker works with children and young people on collaborative art projects. For Loose Tomatoes In The Backyard, Walker teams up with fellow artists and children to cultivate, build, write, make and become the caretakers of the Rumpus Garden Club. 

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XUAN GAO 

Dr Gao is a queer scientist, artist and film producer who additionally performs in artists’ moving images. He collaborates with Wei Zhang (among other queer East and South-east Asian creatives) to produce Wah Yen, a film that explores the perspective of a neurodivergent Chinese immigrant.

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YEWANDE YOYO ODUNUBI

The artist, researcher and cultural producer experiments with movement, performance, film and text (to name a few) to examine our relationship with the body. She contributes to Yoruba Sonic, a sound performance event that explores Yoruba systems of knowledge and anti-colonial methods of pedagogy. 

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FRANCESCA ZAPPIA

Along with her fellow co-curators Paria Goodarzi and Mia Gubbay, Italy’s Zappia presents Monuments For The Present. This open-ended project was created by members of the Maryhill Integration Network Art Group and invited dialogue around equality issues and public space.  

Glasgow International, various venues, Friday 7–Sunday 23 June, visit the Glasgow International website; main picture: Unnatural* Urges.