V&A Dundee Design in Motion, The Travelling Gallery, 13 February - 21 June, Venues across Scotland, wwwvandadundee.org.
Free (Opens in Dundee and ends at Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Design-wise, It really is all happening in Dundee. Not only is it to play host to a new V&A museum, it has also just been named the UK's first Unesco City of Design.
An on-going row over building costs for the waterfront museum may have taken attention away from the actual end-result, so now, to remind us what's it's all about, we have a travelling exhibition which is about to hit the road.
Design in Motion is a touring exhibition showcasing the work of seven leading designers working with digital technology within the realms of games, product, jewellery, fashion, textiles and built heritage.
The tour - in a specially adapted gallery-bus - will launch in Dundee this Friday before embarking on a 17-week journey visiting 78 venues including secondary schools and art colleges, museums, community centres and libraries. Its final stop will be outside London's Victoria and Albert Museum in June.
Design in Motion will take in rural locations such as Harris, Campbeltown, Elgin and Galashiels, alongside more urban sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen.
The exhibition has been brought to life by designer, Gabrielle Underwood, and features work by Geoffrey Mann, Sophia George, Anarkik3D, Sara Robertson and Sarah Taylor, Lynne MacLachlan, the Digital Design Studio and leading fashion designer, Holly Fulton.
Underwood curated the exhibition with an advisory group contributing suggestions for content through a series of dedicated Pinterest boards, highlighting the use of social media as a vital contemporary tool in design circles.
V&A Dundee has worked with Dundee-based developers eeGeo to develop an new mobile app, The Design Scotland app, free to download for iOS and Android from Friday. The app uses 3D mapping technology to virtually track the tour and highlight stories of Scotland's design heritage across the last 300 years.
Users will be encouraged to pin their favourite Scottish designers, design icons and objects to the map, sharing their own thoughts, ideas and stories of Scottish creativity.
JACK SMITH: Theater and Performance Works, The Modern Institute, 14-20, Osborne Street, Glasgow, G1 5QN, 0141 248 3711; www.themoderninstitute.com Until 7 March
Ohio-born underground filmmaker and performance artist, Jack Smith, who died at the age of 56 from AIDS, in 1989, was a central figure in the cultural history of downtown New York film, performance and art.
He began producing work in the late 1950s and became one of the most accomplished and influential artists working in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Inspired by 1960s subcultures of New York, underground film and experimental performance, Smith created a fantastical world fiction around his disgust at contemporary American consumer culture and a fascination with faux-Hollywood. He also threw Orientalist exoticism into this mix.
Through his own artistic and personal exploits, Smith developed an eccentric and captivating persona. Over the course of three decades, he transformed downtown New York into a theatrical environment for his adventures into film and photography.
This fascinating exhibition at The Modern Institute in Glasgow, draws on Smith's performance works and presents film, photographic stills, theatre props and ephemera from many of his performances. It is a follow-on from last year's Theater and Performance Works, exhibition, held at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in Brussels.
The show in Belgium took its original inspiration from the major group exhibition, Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980, (curated by Jay Sanders), which was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2013, and was the first survey of Smith's performance and theater works of the 1970s.
The Modern Institute is working with LUX Scotland to host an offsite screening event of Smith's 1963-65 film Normal Love, with an introduction by Isla Leaver-Yap. The screening will take place on 19 February between 7pm and 10pm, at a top floor location in Glasgow's Argyll Arcade. Check www.themoderninstitute.com for more details.
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