Retrogression Programme - Alexander Stevenson - Eigg Lectures 2

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In essence the Eigg Lectures are an anthropological study into an island without indigenous people. The development of the work was greatly affected by suspicion of the islands current residents of being studied, and Stevenson’s recreation of his own activities on the island in subsequent visits. The Eigg Lectures Version 2 is a musing on the creation and re-telling of history through mythology, iconography, dance, music, story telling and academic structures.

Trade presents Retrogression, an expanded curatorial project spread over three months. Three artists who have previously presented work with Trade have been commissioned to produce new artwork through revisiting an existing piece of their own work. The project includes work by Phillip Henderson, Alexander Stevenson and Oliver Sutherland. Over three months, the exhibition will feature these previous pieces alongside the new commissions and the work of the artists’ that have gone before them. The lecture, story teller, physical performance and presentation devices come under the spotlight in the artworks selected, each involving differing levels of reuse, repetition and retelling, that reconfigure meaning and images through documentation, abstraction, and translation.

Informed by a sense of political and economic retrogression, the programme has provided an opportunity for artists to use this period of reflection or looking back as a starting point for artistic adventure and escapism. Retrogression is curated by Bruce Asbestos / Trade and commissioned by Broadway Media Arts

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