Give us a Meow

For Glasgow International 2021, Give us a Meow consisted of a pair of collaboratively produced film projects. The first work was a collaboration between artists Urara Tsuchiya and Ben Toms that was originally conceived for GI2020.

The second was a new moving image collaboration between three artists: Tsuchiya, Japanese photographer Yuto Kudo, and London-based artist Motoko Ishibashi. Loosely based on the 1898 Japanese novel Konjiki Yasha ('The Golden Demon') by Ozaki Koyo, the work explores a tragic love story mixed with the artists' own experiences of abusive male behaviour. The work combined fictional stories with real experiences in a fantastical setting to explore gender-based violence entangled with love.

Supported by Glasgow International