WHATS COMING UP…
#1996 30TH BIRTHDAY
Generator Projects turns 30!
#1996 brings a week of workshops and events towards a continually evolving exhibition, drawing on our three decades of archive. In light of the recent blows to the Scottish Arts sector, developing our 30th Birthday programme has given us space to reflect on labour, institutional memory and the precarious running of an artist-run initiative. Whether you're new to Generator or ex-committee, friend of Generator or long-time visitor - we'd love to see you on any day of the week! A detailed programme overview will follow shortly ... Keep your eyes peeled let's take this as an opportunity to come together and uplift artist-run organisations!
This is What You’ll Loose:
An exhibition of student, staff, and alumni of Art & Philosophy at University of Dundee in protest of the proposed cuts. Part of our takeover programme organised by @uodstudentsagainstcuts
Recently
Everything for everybody
First presented at Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture for the 2025 Kyiv Biennial.
Everything for Everybody unites contemporary artworks exploring the politics and practices of archiving by Katya Buchatska, Lia Dostlieva, Sophia Gera and Kamila Yanar, Yana Kononova, Elias Parvulesco, Adrian Pepe, Clemens Poole, Selma Selman, Tako Taal and Ola Yeriemieieva, alongside two photographic archives from the UK and Ukraine: Franki Raffles (University of St Andrews), and Mykola Bilokon (Pokrovsk Historical Museum).
How do archives come into being? Who has access to their contents and who controls their meaning? How do archives form unique testimonies of places that have vanished or been destroyed? The backdrop to these questions is the reality of war, in which the Pokrovsk Historical Museum was evacuated. The city itself is now occupied by the Russian army. The title
‘Everything for Everybody’ – a phrase taken from Raffles’s archive – offers both promise and provocation: whose stories are we archiving now, and for whom? Rather than offering definitive answers, we aim to open a space in which diverse artistic practices exploring archival materials, family histories, and documentary practice intersect. We look beyond Ukraine’s borders to other contexts and geographies dealing with loss, the remnants of colonial pasts, and violent legacies. What new archives of solidarity can we build now, and what obstacles exist to their construction?
Curated by Victoria Donovan, Natasha Chychasova, Kateryna Rusetska & Catherine Spencer.
Supported by @uabritish @uniofstandrews @ccastandrews @glopostcentre
