Rumpus Room artists: Maya Rose Edwards, Julia Darrouy + HUSS for GIFC

Growing Sideways

Maya Rose Edwards

12'

2022

Growing Sideways is an auto ethnographical video essay that explores Rural/Queer hybrid systems, connections and identities.

About the artist:

Maya Rose Edwards (they/her) is a queer northern artist based in Glasgow. Since graduating from GSA’s Covid Class of 21’, they have been working as a freelance artist in a variety of participatory community settings, challenging creative access in uncompromising ways. Maya has exhibited at UKMAS (London 2021), The Two Niches Gallery (Dumfries 2022), Oxo Tower (London 2018), The RSA New Contemporaries Award (upcoming) and was accepted into the 2022 cohort of The School of The Damned.

“I adopt a hunter gatherer approach to art making, using objects as punctuation within the stories of everyday life. Using language, people and spaces to establish how objects stand in place for us, challenging the sequence of the everyday to occupy the boundary between self and other. At best a metaphor, in all things a contradiction, my work exists as exploration, collection and public intervention with an aim to uncover order within otherwise unoccupied places and spaces. Finding humour in common systems and signals, even the familiar contains an element of the strange. Relying on the right degree of wrongness to induce double takes in passers-by, my work displaces the hierarchy of perception back to the realm of the pedestrian.”

And The Flowers Have Time For Me

HUSS

13'

2021

A visual piece in memory of Egyptian LGBTQ+ Activist Sarah Hegazi who was imprisoned and toured due to raising a pride flag in Cairo.

About the artist:

HUSS is an Arab performance + Visual artist based in Glasgow. Tackling personal and cultural themes, his discipline involves experimenting and combining elements such as installation, sculpture, visuals and audio to culminate in immersive performance/visual pieces. Huss uses his work as a Queer person of colour to raise issues facing the Arab world that lack acknowledgment in western society, especially queer laws and how much it has always censored and endangered artists like himself. He is always striving to produce work that both immerses and captivates audiences in unexpected ways to tackle important issues that need spoken about more. It is important for Huss to open his work up for collaboration, creating a space where Queer Arabs can mourn, rant and create freely and safely. Huss' work is dedicated to the vulnerable, the censored and the silenced.

Content warning: Discriminatory/violent speech

Documented by Tiu Makkonen

Microbes

Julia Darrouy

2020

2’11”

A stop motion film that is a playful take on what happens inside a person’s stomach.

Primary

2021

Film length: 2’47”

Primary is a stop-motion film that explores shapes and colour; different triangles, circles and squares come together to create some bigger shapes.

About the artist:

Julia Darrouy is a performance artist, and a maker, who works with both adults and children; their work is rooted in playfulness and imagination.

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About Rumpus Room:

Rumpus Room is an artist-led project that is dedicated to collaborative practice working in mutual exchange with children and young people on experimental art and social action projects. Rumpus Room studio is in Govanhill and is run with a committee of young artists; hosting a programme of youth-led activity for children, young people and their families. The studio is a shared experimental space where children & young people can work independently and in collaboration with artists, activists, youth and play workers on ideas they have instigated.

RR aims to connect and celebrate diversity, people and place through child & youth led creative and social action. RR is focused on the principles of community, autonomy, experimentation and the desire to work long-term to cultivate meaningful relationships and mutual exchange with people in the places where we live, work and learn.

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Pay what you can: £0-£12

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About GAMIS:

Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios (GAMIS) is a charitable organisation committed to supporting experimental arts and community-focused film programming in Govanhill.

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Programmed as part of Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 2022

Supported by the National Lottery through Screen Scotland and by Scotland Loves Local

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Image above, Tiu Makkonen for HUSS

Images below, still from Growing Sideways by Maya Rose Edwards & still from Microbes byJulia Darrouy.

Host or Publisher GAMIS