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Curatorial Projects
โ†’ ย Soft Return
โ†’ ย Degree Show
โ†’ ย sooperdooperlooper
โ†’ ย Instructions for Curating a Transnational Exhibition
โ†’ ย Poster Pulse
โ†’ ย Melodies of a Farewell
โ†’ ย Stranger Fruit
โ†’ ย the buds on the trees look like pistachios

About

Blake Ballard, Kim Lambert, Rory Green, Joshua Elza Breen-Tucci, Maia Harding

Curated by Deirdre McIntosh


Glasgow School of Art
July 24-25, 2025
Poster design by Deirdre McIntosh



sooperdooperlooper explores the unexpected intersection between crochet, knitting, and electronic music, practices rooted in looped structures. It draws on the shared language of both forms and their emphasis on collective rhythm. These practices embrace the loop, a return that is never exactly the same. Looping gestures toward alternative temporalities, reflecting the flow of circular and slow time. In a culture driven by acceleration, productivity, and linear progress, the loop becomes a radical form that allows for building meaning over time and returning.


Installation shot of โ€œWho sets the ground rules?โ€ by Blake Ballard, photograph by Kim Lambert.


The installations in this exhibition are Who sets the ground rules?, chalk marker, by Blake Ballard and MEMORPHOSIS, sewing threads and heat-reactive yarn on Dubied knitting machine, by Kim Lambert.

The exhibition also features an immersive sonic experience with seven sonic works by three different artists: the wind turbine at Cathkin Braes is alone on a hill singing for No One, sound recording, by joshua elza breen-tucci, Phase Transition, Silt Memory, and Vacillator, modular synth/ASM Hydrasynth, by Rory Green, and tricklebaby_green, impossible light, crudely drawn, and 2022, as if in waking dream, by maia harding.


Listen to the sonic works here.

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sooperdooperlooper


Detail shots of MEMORPHOSIS, photos by Kim Lambert.
Opening night performance by joshua elza breen-tucci, photograph by Kim Lambert.