{"id":3632,"date":"2022-11-10T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:45","slug":"chimera-of-new-and-existing-works-by-nashashibi-skaer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/chimera-of-new-and-existing-works-by-nashashibi-skaer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimera: exhibition of new and existing works by Nashashibi\/Skaer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Gallery is delighted to present\u00a0<strong><em>Chimera,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>an exhibition bringing together new and existing works<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Nashashibi\/Skaer \u2013 the joint practice of Turner Prize nominated artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3637\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.56-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.56-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.56-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.56-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.56.png 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the ancient Greek for a female goat, \u2018chimera\u2019 today refers to a beast or an idea composed of incongruous\u00a0parts, an illusion or fabrication of the mind. The exhibition traverses art history, mythology and the cyclical nature of new life and new ideas. Fusion and slippages of meaning produce an associative and discursive mediation on transformation through which\u00a0chimera,\u00a0a composite being that in its very form unsettles the possibility of an archetype, encourages us to doubt the dominance of the real.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3635\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.33.53-1024x686.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.33.53-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.33.53-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.33.53-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.33.53.png 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of\u00a0<strong><em>Chimera<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are three collaborative films which combine photographic images with musical composition, drawing and painting, skewing the images to form new experiences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3638\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.19-1024x766.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.19-1024x766.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.19-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.19-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.32.19.png 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cooper Gallery is situated in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/campusmap\/?location=CRAWFORD_BUILDING\">Crawford Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3634\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.34.06-1024x690.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.34.06-1024x690.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.34.06-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.34.06-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.34.06.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition opening times<\/strong><br \/>\n30 September \u2013 10 December 2022<br \/>\nMonday \u2013 Saturday, 12\u20135pm<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3633\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.49.26-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.49.26-1024x763.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.49.26-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.49.26-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-10-at-08.49.26.png 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also on offer is <em>Image Making with 16mm Film<\/em>, a reading group and screening led by\u00a0Alex Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay\u00a0 Thinking through the lenses of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer\u2019s individual practices in film, installation, painting and sculpture as well their collaborative films explored in the <i>Chimera <\/i>exhibition\u00a0at Cooper Gallery, this reading group is an open event, which will screen the raw rushes from the first 16mm camera workshop, and consider analogue film through a broad spectrum of experiences, observations and cultural, theoretical and political contexts.<\/p>\n<p>The event will explore, through collaborative group reading, texts, observations and provocations from a number of filmmakers and artists including Luke Fowler, Catherine Sullivan, Beatrice Gibson, Rosalind Nashashibi, Nathaniel Dorsky, Rhea Storr, Steve McQueen, Jo\u00e3o Maria Gusm\u00e3o &amp; Pedro Paiva, Tacita Dean, Margaret Salmon, Margaret Tait and Chris Marker and conclude on recent experiences in 16mm film productions by Alex Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17 November 18.00-20.00\u00a0<\/strong>book a space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/chimera-image-making-with-16mm-film-part-two-tickets-415963306447\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photography in this post is by Sally Jubb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Gallery is delighted to present\u00a0Chimera,\u00a0an exhibition bringing together new and existing works\u00a0by Nashashibi\/Skaer \u2013 the joint practice of Turner Prize nominated artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer. From the ancient Greek for a female goat, \u2018chimera\u2019 today refers to a beast or an idea composed of incongruous\u00a0parts, an illusion or fabrication of the mind. 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