SONGS FOR WORK
An exhibition of new work by artist and writer Beth Dynowski which looks at personal histories of working life.
Artists:
Beth Dynowski
Written with and performed by
Saoirse Amira Anis, Dan Cox and Rowan Heggie
Exhibition Running Time:
April 16th and 17th 11am - 5pm
April 23rd and 24th 11am - 5pm
Songs for Work is an exhibition of new work by artist and writer Beth Dynowski, written with and performed by Saoirse Amira Anis, Dan Cox and Rowan Heggie. The show uses poetry, performance, sculpture, audio and publishing to explore how we shape and are shaped by our socio-economic conditions.
The show centres on a performance which takes place over two weekends, the performers will be working and resting within the space throughout that time. The collaborative writing the four have undertaken, installed as print and audio, weaves together narratives of intimate relationship breakdown and repair within the context of capitalism. It explores how material conditions are experienced, felt and lived through by individuals, families, and communities, and how the body holds this.
Beth Dynowski is an artist and writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. She makes sculpture, performances, projects and texts. Her most recent work uses hybrid forms of poetry and performance alongside public projects that explore how individuals, relationships and communities shape and are shaped by capitalism and the commons. She co-founded projects including Free Association Glasgow, The Pipe Factory, Temporary Art School and several public lecture series. Her writing has been published by Gutter, Dancing Girl Press, Adjacent Pineapple and The White Review.
Saoirse Amira Anis is a Dundee-based artist and curator whose practice prioritises radical care, informality and empathy. Saoirse’s work is informed primarily by Black queer literature, her personal ancestry, and her own body as it moves through the world. She considers the ways in which the body holds ancestral and lived memories particularly in relation to feelings of guilt, shame and inadequacy. Saoirse thinks of her practice as a personal therapeutic process and aims to ensure that her creative undertakings are acts of self-care. She considers the beneficial ways in which we can share our vulnerabilities with others in order to reap the personal and political benefits of care and nurture.
Dan Cox is a Glasgow based performance artist from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Dan’s work is heavily situated within his own cultural understanding of love and how this not only relates aesthetically to the dramatic, geographical landscapes in which he grew up, but also to the tough, stubborn social landscapes that were a constant throughout his upbringing in West Yorkshire. Dan is currently developing his own work that explores time and the material properties it holds when being explored by working-class artists.
Rowan Heggie is a performer, writer, and visual artist. They graduated in Acting & Performance from Dundee & Angus College and are now based in Dundee, delivering workshops on menstrual health and period stigma. They have performed spoken word and poetry at the UK Asexuality Conference, Generator Projects, and Aberdeen University’s WayWORD Festival. Rowan also crafts in a genre they like to call “passive-aggressive art” using collage, sculpture, and vast quantities of glitter. They currently illustrate for Forest Secrets, an interactive folklore expedition on Patreon.