Colquhoun & McNeill’s practice has developed over nearly 20 years of collaboration, in which time it has embraced a variety of tactics and methodologies including: drawing, writing, video, performance and audio works. Most importantly, their work is informed and enriched by a shared obsession and engagement with the peripheral and marginal spaces of landscape. Accordingly, their walks within these spaces are amongst the most important, if not key, strategies they employ in terms of the experiential research and learning that informs their shared practice. The walks themselves are performative in that they are both movements through landscape and an attempt to engage with how and why they choose to do so. These spaces are often what can be described as ‘heterotopia’, places that are variously marginalised through where they are, or how they have been used in the past and in the present. They might be old industrial sites, railway land, scrubland, moorland, defunct business parks or bogland. These landscapes could be described as uncertain either/or sorts of places, undefined, shifting, uncontainable, even dangerous. Often they might be described as dull or boring and for that reason can remain opaque to the eyes of passersby. These places do not offer the usual menu of attractiveness such as charming country scenes, bucolic vistas, meandering paths or the epic sweep of mountain and valley. They are the obverse of a designated ‘area of outstanding natural beauty’ (AONB) and the cultural and political assumptions that underscore such places they are, if you will, the anti-sublime, the bastardised picturesque.

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – an exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of ‘live-to-air’performances. The majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound and radio works.

Broadcasting across Glasgow on 87.9fm, and online at www.radiophrenia.scot 

Supported by Creative Scotland.

Clubbing tunes label for Lost Dogs.
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Folklore Tapes is an open-ended research project exploring the vernacular arcana of Great Britain and beyond; traversing the myths, mysteries, magic and strange phenomena of the old counties via abstracted musical reinterpretation and experimental visuals. The driving principle of the project is to bring the nation’s folk record to life, to rekindle interest in the treasure trove of traditional culture by finding new forms for its expression. 

J. P. McNEILL
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GLASGOW,
STRATHCLYDE


Record shop and distributor based in London. 
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