The Consequence

Janie Nicoll and I have been working on this show for a couple of months now, the information is below: I was hoping to use this space as a way to generate more material for the work and start commencing dialogs with other artists on this material. I think that's quite naive, the catalog may be the way to do this, the catalog will include video material, texts and images that artists can use in their own work, we will see if this happens.

The Consequence
Janie Nicoll, Alex Hetherington
Intermedia Gallery, CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD United Kingdom
Opening on Friday 11th May 2007 7.00–9.00 p.m.
Saturday 12th–26th (not Sundays) 12.00–5.00 p.m.
Artists Talk: Thursday 24th May 2007, 7.30pm, tbc




The Consequence is a two person show developed through a collaborative process by the artists Janie Nicoll and Alex Hetherington resulting in works that collide together their individual approaches, works and practice. The work on show, including, video and sculpture, attempts to dismiss any single separate vision by synchronizing methods, edits, material.

Janie Nicoll presents site specific installation and sculpture works that adapt cultural references to deliberate on the terms of interpretation and ambiguity. She works with processes of translation, scale, materials and context which rigorously and visually depict contrasts in social circumstances and human interactions in urban and rural environments. Her work often confronts the signifiers of social breakdown and maladjustment, representations of menace and disillusionment, desire and anger using a variety of techniques including recording and rearranging graffiti, burnt-out cars and smashed and discarded glass.

Alex Hetherington screens video material referencing a number of sources including HOUSE/LIGHTS by the legendary New York-based Wooster Group and a series of short videos, imitating cinema trailers, promoting a remake of Fassbinder's Querelle, as well as video and sound material depicting a failed attempt at unifying the narratives of both. He also screens a video using Nicoll's texts We Are All Prostitutes. The Queen is Dead. The Emperor's New Clothes and other works framed into a tarot card reading lifted from and mimicking a scene in Fassbinder's original showing the actor Jeanne Moreau deliberating on a premonition of Querelle's downfall. Hetherington works here with the synchronization of imitation sequences that deal with readings of feminism, gender and sexuality in cinema and theatre transplanting notions of the spiritual feminine and lascivious masculine.

The Consequence delivers an account of the juxtaposition of these references, themes and approaches.

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Notes to editors

1. The Consequence has received generous support from the Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council and the Hope Scott Trust

2. Alex Hetherington's work includes HOUSE/LIGHTS (a revival) a performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, May 2007 and BLACK MODEL AGENCY, a Wooster Group fanzine. Recent screenings of video and film work include: Freshfest live art and video, Bracknell; winterwhite, Chicago; B-Sides, Oklahoma, curated by New Media Scotland, File Rio, Rio de Janeiro and in film programme screenings in New York, Portland, Atlanta, and New Delhi. Past residencies include Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Rutherglen Town Hall and with Force Entertainment, Sheffield. Recent writing has appeared in Independents Liverpool Biennial, MAP magazine and Stretcher, San Francisco.
http://www.alexhetherington.com

3. Janie Nicoll originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, and graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. Since then she has exhibited regularly in Scotland and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Redwire Open, Liverpool Biennale Independents; "Feelin' Jaggy" at Generator Projects, Dundee; "The Queen Is Dead", installation Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; "Rack and Ruin" at Low Salt Gallery; "Dead Space" at EmergeD VSF Gallery, Glasgow; "We Interrupt This Programme" at The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle; and The Changing Room, Stirling; "Scandal" at the Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester; "Let's Panic Later" at the Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany; "UK/NY" New British Video at MOMA, New York. She has undertaken residencies at Chatelherault Country Park, South Lanarkshire; Generator Projects Dundee; Shining Cliff, Derbyshire. Future exhibitions include a four person show at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, May 2007; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trondheim, Sweden, July 2007; and "Magazine 07", Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Festival Exhibition, August.


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i fell into a burning ring of fire*/each man kills the thing he loves*/i think now's the time i'm in a position to offer you some nice work with some nice dividends* klink/beep/ha ha

The Consequence, video, screen 4
A film about Janie Nicoll; Janie Nicoll's Querelle, Janie Nicoll as Johnny Cash and his burning ring of fire, Janie Nicoll as gay disco producer Patrick Cowley and Sylvester, do you wanna funk with me? Alex Hetherington signs Ring of Fire at 112% of the original. A sample of some music created for Spalding Gray underlines Cash's lament. I'm so sorry Spalding. Janie Nicoll's edited into The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and edited out again, I don't want her to be there/Janie Nicoll edited into Silent Running. Janie Nicoll's eyes on the record label for Menergy. James Bowman Lindsay's electric light for House/Lights by The Wooster Group. A gay riot after Harvey Milk is assassinated. I fell into a burning ring of fire and the Queen is Dead in Folsom Street/ download an image from the Tom of Finland archive and redraw it so that it's more acceptable. I was wrong. You don't have a brother. That negates everything and all the images then lose their meaning. I Love Janie Nicoll and peacock wallpaper.

House/Lights, video, screen 1
I want to be Kate Valk, so if they need an understudy I am ready. James Bowman Linday's electric light for House/Lights by The Wooster Group.

Querelle, video, screen 2
Each man kills the thing he loves. I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U, I love Alex Hetherington t-shirt and hat, using Querelle for a diagnosis of self-love. Vandalism on a bus shelter: If you are looking for a good time, meet me here Tuesdays at 6.30. Women only. With the Wo scored out; or Franco Nero's character in chalk looking for men with big cocks/ if you are prepared I can offer you some nice work with some nice dividends. Tarot reading. Calvin Klein. Karate throw with orange comme des garcons shoes; white pants from the Castro, laid onto the Harvey Milk memorial. some poses from supermodel ads and a quick flick gesture - you've made me the happiest girl alive. Cigar smokers.

untitled, video, screen 3
We are all prostitutes. Dead space. more graffiti and a failed attempt at making Querelle and Kate Valk fit together.