Laura McLean Ferris and Glasgow Sculpture Studios #nostalgia

#nostalgia is a performance conceived by Laura McLean Ferris, featuring the work of Ed Atkins, Nina Beier, Juliette Bonneviot, David Raymond Conroy, David Horvitz, Leslie Kulesh, Katja Novitskova, Heather Phillipson, Cally Spooner and Kate Steciw.

The performance lifts its structure from Hollis Frampton’s (1936-84) seminal film (nostalgia) (1971), in which selected photographs from Frampton’s archive burned on a hotplate one by one, while a voiceover delivered texts about the images long before they are seen, challenging the viewer’s powers of memory.

For this new performance, the artists have been asked to write a personal monologue in response to an original stock image – a form of speculative commercial photography always created with a future market in mind. Filling such deliberately empty images with their personal subjectivities, these artists' monologues will be performed live in front of a film featuring the photographs, as though the speakers were performing a form of image-based karaoke.

This performance is produced by Glasgow Sculpture Studios.