Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Offline

Video still taken from the front of a red car driving towards a tunnel opening. Sandy coloured mountains loom overhead.
Video still, a close up of a woman’s hands drawing circles an egg in black charcoal. The woman wears a white dress with blue spots.
Video still of a television showing a graphic of Iran covered in dots emanating circular signals.
Video still of multi-coloured fluorescent lights in motion.
Video still, close up of herbs being sorted by hand.
Colour film still depicting a surgical scene from above. A patient lies on an operating table with their face illuminated against darkness while medical professionals in green surival gowns lean over them. Surgical instruments are visible, including a reflective instrument or mirror. The dramatic lighting and palette of surgical greens and warm skin tones emphasise horror-film qualities and themes of bodily transformation.
Black-and-white close-up portrait of a face emerging from darkness. Only the eyes, nose, and slightly parted lips are illuminated by a spotlight while the edges of the face fade into shadow. The upward gaze conveys vulnerability or apprehension, combing Hollywood glamour lighting with a sense of psychological distress.
Black-and-white film still of a psychoanalytic session. In the foreground, a figure sits in shadow with their back to the camera, facing another figure standing beside benetian-blinded windows. The standing figure wears a tailored 1940s checkered suit, dark sunglasses, and has their head fully wrapped in bandaded. The room it lit by a table lamp, with framed artworks on the walls, evoking film noir aesthetics and the clincal atmosphere of mid-century psychoanalysis

Offline (formerly GAMIS) is a specialist arts organisation dedicated to the production and exhibition of artists’ moving image. They have just opened a new venue with screening facilities, exhibition, workshop space and artists’ studios – fulfilling a six-year ambition to create a dedicated space for time-based practice in Glasgow. Directors Lydia Honeybone and Shireen Taylor have been collaborating since 2018, holding screenings in local parks, on the streets and in abandoned warehouses. They are thrilled to welcome Glasgow International audiences to Offline’s new permanent home, a platform for ambitious time-based practice, experimental cinema and archival films.

The project is driven by a deep love of artists' moving image, collaboration and a shared desire to gather in the presence of 'a thousand kindred spirits holding their breath in the dark.' (B. Ruby Rich)

Projects

  • 2024
    Farang / فرنگ
    Video still of multi-coloured fluorescent lights in motion.
  • Programme
    Strange Evidence
    Colour film still depicting a surgical scene from above. A patient lies on an operating table with their face illuminated against darkness while medical professionals in green surival gowns lean over them. Surgical instruments are visible, including a reflective instrument or mirror. The dramatic lighting and palette of surgical greens and warm skin tones emphasise horror-film qualities and themes of bodily transformation.