too much
(too little, too late)
Date
11.06
27.06.2021
Location
5 florence st.
glasgow
Event
exhibition
TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen, Nora Turato
Too Much (too little, too late) is a group show that features works by Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato. Presented in the former Victorian school at 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, Too Much is part of Glasgow International 2021 – Across The City Programme.
Originally Too Much has been conceived as a live platform activated by a series of performances to question the patriarchal representation of bodies, taking its title from a declaration by Turato regarding the labels “too-much” and “intense" easily attributed to women. The intent was reflecting upon performative practices of disobedience, where the norms are exceeded and new possibilities for subjectivisation are opened.
In light of the pandemic Too Much has been reimagined adopting the subtitle too little, too late from the acclaimed song by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams (1977). Embracing the artists’ travel difficulties as an opportunity, the project unfolds their proxemic need through interventions in which the works become performative bodies unravelled in programmatic languages, physical disciplines, technological dematerialisation and gentle textile refigurations.
Keep hoping we will start breathing together again soon.
Biographies
ADAM CHRISTENSEN
Adam Christensen (1979, UK) lives and works in London, UK. His research reflects upon the mise-en-scene of a subject, its construction and representation. Madam, his alter-ego, transports through singing the audience into a private world of love and desire, melancholy and loss. The lines between the artist and viewer, life and fiction are blurred, as to explore the everyday as spectacle.
Solo shows include I’m not done with you yet, Glodsmiths CCA, London, UK (2019) Criminal Longing 3, Almanac Projects, London, UK (2019), Shitty Heartbreaker, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018), Staging Realities 1, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (2018)
Group shows include 2019 Reacción A Islandia, Pavilion Nordico, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019), Beatrice Gibson/Crone Music, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2019), DRAG, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2018), 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK (2017), Soundworks, ICA, London, UK (2012).
Performances include Sweet Surrender, OGR, Turin, Italy (2019), Irruptive Chora, Royal College of Arts, London, UK (2018), Steps to Aeration, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany (2017), Park Nights: BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Serpentine Galleries, London (2016), CHÂTEAUX DOUBLE WIDE, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK (2016).
SAGG NAPOLI
SAGG Napoli (b. 1991 in Naples, Italy) lives and works in London, UK. Her artistic practice uses narration as a tool to examine the complex socio-political knot of the South of Europe. In her performances body is a tool to reflect on the notions of productivity, self-control, and achievement.
Solo shows include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: new practices of dignity, DEPARTMENT OBECNOŚCI, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland (2018) FAKE THINGS ARE FLAMABLE- e cos favz s’appiccn, Like a little disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy (2018) SI NA BUJI PI COSC LISC E O’ SMALT NGOPP ALL’OGN- You’re a lie with smooth thighs and painted nails, Jupiter Woods, London, UK (2017).
Group shows include Radical Self Love, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria (2019) ALL SMALL THINGS Milan, Italy (2019), UNBOTHERED AND MOISTURISED, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong (2019), BLADE BUNNER, SPRINT independent Publishing Fair, Milan (2017)
JEANNE TULLEN
Jeanne Tullen (Genève, 1990; lives and works between London and Genève) interprets photography as a performative action. In her work she is present without being there, playing with the subtle line between presence and absence, fiction and reality, fulfilment and sense of loss.
She is a Graduate from Bachelor of Photography (ECAL, 2014) and Masters in Visual Arts (Glasgow School of Art, GSA, 2018). Her photographic work has been the subject of several publications, notably in Body: The Photography Book, by Nathalie Herschdorfer (Thames & Hudson 2019) as well as in Desire, The New Erotic Photography, by Patrick Remy (Prestel Publishing 2015). In January 2020 she presents In Transit, her first solo exhibition in a major public institution, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow. The exhibition is punctuated by 12 performances and very well received by the public. Several articles appear to accompany the exhibition, including Tank Magazine (London, UK) and The National (Scotland, UK). From July 2021 she will undertake a residency in Berlin, Atelier Berlin, République et Canton de Genève, where she will develop her research project “(en)gendered technobody”.
NORA TURATO
Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) lives and works in Amsterdam. She uses found textual materials to contend with the porosity of language in contemporary media landscapes. She appropriates language from books, advertising, social media, and everyday exchanges and pours it into sonorous, spoken-word performances and typographical works that range from wall murals and video works to artist books and posters. While Turato’s work can be dissected and interpreted under many different lenses, her stage presence—as a woman, whose behaviour is unpredictable—and her voice—which thunders and bellows and squeals—often elicits the greatest critical response. This illustrates one point very well: despite all illusions, the freedom of women’s speech is still a point of sharp contention even in allegedly progressive societies.
Solo shows include MGLC, Ljubljana (2020); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2020); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2019); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (2019) and Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2019).
In 2021 she will have a solo-show at Secession, Vienna and in 2022 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Group shows include Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); Move Festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020), WIELS, Brussels (2020); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2020); Museo MACRO, Rome (2020) and Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2020) and DAAD Gallery, Berlin (2019).
Performances include Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2018) and Block Universe International Performance Art Festival, London, UK (2018).
Venue partner: Urban Office
Sponsors: Resonance Capital, Michael Murphy and Bal Kalirai
Supported by Glasgow International
too much
(too little, too late)
Date
11.06
27.06.2021
Location
5 florence st.
glasgow
Event
exhibition
TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen, Nora Turato
Too Much (too little, too late) is a group show that features works by Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato. Presented in the former Victorian school at 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, Too Much is part of Glasgow International 2021 – Across The City Programme.
Originally Too Much has been conceived as a live platform activated by a series of performances to question the patriarchal representation of bodies, taking its title from a declaration by Turato regarding the labels “too-much” and “intense" easily attributed to women. The intent was reflecting upon performative practices of disobedience, where the norms are exceeded and new possibilities for subjectivisation are opened.
In light of the pandemic Too Much has been reimagined adopting the subtitle too little, too late from the acclaimed song by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams (1977). Embracing the artists’ travel difficulties as an opportunity, the project unfolds their proxemic need through interventions in which the works become performative bodies unravelled in programmatic languages, physical disciplines, technological dematerialisation and gentle textile refigurations.
Keep hoping we will start breathing together again soon.
Biographies
ADAM CHRISTENSEN
Adam Christensen (1979, UK) lives and works in London, UK. His research reflects upon the mise-en-scene of a subject, its construction and representation. Madam, his alter-ego, transports through singing the audience into a private world of love and desire, melancholy and loss. The lines between the artist and viewer, life and fiction are blurred, as to explore the everyday as spectacle.
Solo shows include I’m not done with you yet, Glodsmiths CCA, London, UK (2019) Criminal Longing 3, Almanac Projects, London, UK (2019), Shitty Heartbreaker, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018), Staging Realities 1, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (2018)
Group shows include 2019 Reacción A Islandia, Pavilion Nordico, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019), Beatrice Gibson/Crone Music, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2019), DRAG, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2018), 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK (2017), Soundworks, ICA, London, UK (2012).
Performances include Sweet Surrender, OGR, Turin, Italy (2019), Irruptive Chora, Royal College of Arts, London, UK (2018), Steps to Aeration, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany (2017), Park Nights: BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Serpentine Galleries, London (2016), CHÂTEAUX DOUBLE WIDE, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK (2016).
SAGG NAPOLI
SAGG Napoli (b. 1991 in Naples, Italy) lives and works in London, UK. Her artistic practice uses narration as a tool to examine the complex socio-political knot of the South of Europe. In her performances body is a tool to reflect on the notions of productivity, self-control, and achievement.
Solo shows include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: new practices of dignity, DEPARTMENT OBECNOŚCI, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland (2018) FAKE THINGS ARE FLAMABLE- e cos favz s’appiccn, Like a little disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy (2018) SI NA BUJI PI COSC LISC E O’ SMALT NGOPP ALL’OGN- You’re a lie with smooth thighs and painted nails, Jupiter Woods, London, UK (2017).
Group shows include Radical Self Love, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria (2019) ALL SMALL THINGS Milan, Italy (2019), UNBOTHERED AND MOISTURISED, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong (2019), BLADE BUNNER, SPRINT independent Publishing Fair, Milan (2017)
JEANNE TULLEN
Jeanne Tullen (Genève, 1990; lives and works between London and Genève) interprets photography as a performative action. In her work she is present without being there, playing with the subtle line between presence and absence, fiction and reality, fulfilment and sense of loss.
She is a Graduate from Bachelor of Photography (ECAL, 2014) and Masters in Visual Arts (Glasgow School of Art, GSA, 2018). Her photographic work has been the subject of several publications, notably in Body: The Photography Book, by Nathalie Herschdorfer (Thames & Hudson 2019) as well as in Desire, The New Erotic Photography, by Patrick Remy (Prestel Publishing 2015). In January 2020 she presents In Transit, her first solo exhibition in a major public institution, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow. The exhibition is punctuated by 12 performances and very well received by the public. Several articles appear to accompany the exhibition, including Tank Magazine (London, UK) and The National (Scotland, UK). From July 2021 she will undertake a residency in Berlin, Atelier Berlin, République et Canton de Genève, where she will develop her research project “(en)gendered technobody”.
NORA TURATO
Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) lives and works in Amsterdam. She uses found textual materials to contend with the porosity of language in contemporary media landscapes. She appropriates language from books, advertising, social media, and everyday exchanges and pours it into sonorous, spoken-word performances and typographical works that range from wall murals and video works to artist books and posters. While Turato’s work can be dissected and interpreted under many different lenses, her stage presence—as a woman, whose behaviour is unpredictable—and her voice—which thunders and bellows and squeals—often elicits the greatest critical response. This illustrates one point very well: despite all illusions, the freedom of women’s speech is still a point of sharp contention even in allegedly progressive societies.
Solo shows include MGLC, Ljubljana (2020); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2020); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2019); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (2019) and Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2019).
In 2021 she will have a solo-show at Secession, Vienna and in 2022 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Group shows include Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); Move Festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020), WIELS, Brussels (2020); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2020); Museo MACRO, Rome (2020) and Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2020) and DAAD Gallery, Berlin (2019).
Performances include Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2018) and Block Universe International Performance Art Festival, London, UK (2018).
Venue partner: Urban Office
Sponsors: Resonance Capital, Michael Murphy and Bal Kalirai
Supported by Glasgow International
