YAKA COLLECTIVE » Exhibitions

White Mountain

Tim Dalzell — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:30:02 +0000

12 December 2015 – 06 January 2016
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow

In this collaborative installation, we worked with the physical characteristics of the exhibition space to question real and imagined states. With emphasis on making, material qualities and play, this immersive environment infused recognisable terrains with a warped perspective – resulting in an absurd manifestation of imagined forms. Objects were distorted and the boundaries between interior and exterior became blurred. Ultimately, finding quite familiar ground – the mountain may be forever out of reach.

White Mountain was kindly supported by CCA Glasgow and Hope Scott Trust.

Featured in The Skinny: CCA Highlights – November/December 2015

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Black Hole

Tim Dalzell — Mon, 18 May 2015 09:25:12 +0000

October 2015 | Glasgow Project Room, 103 Trongate

A year on from group exhibition ‘SO IT IS’, YAKA took over the Project Room as a testing ground for the elusive theme of ‘Black Hole’ in order to explore possibilities within the collective.

Questioning temporal paradoxes, the strong gravitational pull towards the unknown, the emotional void within us all, and ideas of a body so massive that light itself cannot escape; the aim of the investigation was to form a loose foundation for ‘White Mountain’ – an exhibition for the Intermedia Gallery, CCA Glasgow in December 2015.

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SO IT IS

Richard Krantz — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:43:20 +0000

In November 2014, YAKA Collective presented SO IT IS, a group exhibition featuring 30 artists who graduated between 2010 – 2014. The show was spread across four venues in Glasgow: The Briggait, Laurieston Arches, Caledonia Road Church and Laurieston Arena. During the exhibition’s two-week run, the show brought together artists working across a wide range of media. This included sculptural installations, performances, workshops and events.

SO IT IS was produced in association with Wasps Studios and WAVEparticle. While the Briggait is well known as a space for the siting of artworks, the other venues are not yet recognised in the same way. By facilitating a dialogue between these different sites, the show aimed to highlight the potential that they all have as creative spaces.

Alongside WAVEparticle, the creation of the three Laurieston spaces is supported by Glasgow City Council, Stalled Spaces, NGHA, Urban Union and Network Rail. We would like to thank WAVEparticle, Wasps Studios, Risotto, Garthland Design and Print for their support.

• PARTICIPATING ARTISTS •
Michael Barr, Hannah Brackston, Leanora Brophy, Mikey Cook, Conor Cooke, Jasper Coppes, Tim Dalzell, Sam Devereux, Sam Dransfield, Florence Dwyer, Rachel Forrest, Hannah Imlach, Richard Krantz, Emil Lillo, Jen Martin, Frank McElhinney, Philippe Murphy, Cameron Orr, Alys Owen, Manon Rolland, Todd Braylor Pleasants, Daniele Sambo, Jasper Weinstein Sheffield, Živilė Siutilaitė, Rae-Yen Song, Emma Thomas, Katrina Valle, Tess Vaughan, Ben Weir, Fanny Wickström