Colme Cille’s Spiral Convocation

CCA, Glasgow School of Art, Atlas and Glasgow University are part of a unique partnership and project that is part of the Derry-Londonderry City of Culture programme.

Colme Cille’s Spiral is a series of contemporary art and literature commissions and dialogues rethinking the legacy of sixth century Irish monk Colm Cille (St Columba), which in its entirety unfolds across Ireland and the UK, starting and ending in Derry~Londonderry for City of Culture 2013. The Glasgow School of Art leads on Scotland’s ‘Knot’ that forms the spiral.

This public event, along with an exhibition in Mackintosh Museum at Glasgow School of Art (12 October - 1 November) will share the outcomes of a group of scholars and artists following their short summer residency on Raasay, an island off Skye, where they have worked together to engage with the ‘extreme past’. The project title, convocation, means ‘a calling together’. Colme Cille’s Spiral is a Difference Exchange project in partnership with the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, Kings College London.

Please see colmcillespiral.net for further information on the project. Convocation has been funded by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures Programme.