Modern Institute Projects 1998 to present

Residency at the Modern Institute for a 2 week period where this collaborative group of electronic musicians set up a recording studio and made a new track released with Merge, a Stockholm-based international art magazine, and a collaborative single with Glasgow band V-Twin.

The Modern Institute took up residency at uptown London gallery Sadie Coles HQ for the month of August, presenting artists' editions and new work by Richard Wright, Christine Borland, Jim Lambie, Jeremy Deller, Simon Starling, Cathy Wilkes, Mary Redmond, Jonnie Wilkes and Jonathan Monk.

The Modern Institute took over the abandoned Soho strip club Carnival on Old Compton St for an evening. The place was open to the public, a free bar was set up and Jim Lambie's film 'Ultralow' was back projected in the dark downstairs, where the girls used to dance.

Simon Starling set up a studio in The Modern Institute workspace for three months, making new work for the Museum of Modern Art at Heide in Melbourne, with a public preview of the work in progress.

The Modern Institute was asked to contribute an event to Lucia-A-Go-Go at the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm, organised by Thomas Nordenstaad. Jackie Donachie opened her 'Advice Bar' for the night, serving free gin and cigarettes to anyone who talked through their problems with her.

One room of The Modern Institute workspace has been turned into a full-time artist's studio which is given to an artist for a several months to develop new work. The first artist to be given use of this studio was Richard Wright. The current resident is Glasgow-based artist Simon Starling.

A night for Berlin club WMF with Djs Manuela Krause, Twitch and a live set with Dave Clark and MusicsystemM ( Superflex )

Presenting 'Punish', a project by Robert Johnston and Ewan Imrie.

Organised by Parisian group BDV (bureau des videos) this project involves groups from around Europe working in a 1960s art centre building in south-east France. The Modern Institute collaborated with UK artists Jeremy Deller on a film and soundtrack with Vodershow and with Richard Wright with a project with local bikers.

The Modern Institute worked with Copenhagen-based artists Superflex to produce a section of the magazine.

Again collaborating with Superflex to produce information about their proposed virtual city in Sweden, Karlskrona 2.

A presentation of The Modern Institute's activities for Self-Service Magazine.

A series of three-day presentations of new work by artists, performances, talks and other events which happened weekly at The Modern Institute workspace early this year.

• January 14th 1999: Toby Paterson
• January 21st: Victoria Morton
• February 4th: Tatham & O'Sullivan
• February 11th: Mary Redmond
• February 18th: Robert Johnston
• April 22nd: Stopstop book launch / Martin Boyce reading
• May 13th: Dave Allen
• May 20th: Inventory
• May 27th: Eva Rothschild
• June 3rd: Martin Creed, Cathy Wilkes
• September 9th: Claire Barclay
• December 8th: Madeleine Berkhemer
• May 12th 2000: Tonight
• September 14th Hayley Tompkins
• October 19th: Michael Wilkinson
• November 12th: Bojan Sarcevic
• December 7th: Andrew Kerr

Vodershow worked with NY-based artist Liza May Post to produce a DVD as part of the series 'Flash' curated by Thora Johansen.

Rirkrit Tiravanija set up a temporary four-screen cinema and Thai barbecue cafe which took over a crossroads in a residential area of Glasgow and showed films selected by the local community. This project was part of Glasgow's 1999 City of Architecture festival. The four screens showed Casablanca, A Bug's Life, The Jungle Book and It's a Wonderful Life simultaneously. The cinema was open on 26th September 1999.

A performance by Alan Kane, October 1999, in association with 'Education in Reverse', a free alternative art school organised by Sarah Tripp.

A group show for the Glassbox gallery, with work by Robert Johnston, Michel Auder, Rob Pruitt, Lucy McKenzie, Gareth Jones, Eva Rothschild and Torbjørn Rødland.

New art work by Martin Boyce, Mary Redmond and Toby Paterson, video by Mark Leckey, Dave Allen and Jonathan Horowitz, plus free recording studio for Helsinki bands, sessions by DJ Vilunki 3000 and Autocade; and Radio Tuesday in Helsinki on 95.2FM, a pirate radio station broadcasting home-made programs, live sessions and experimental audio, run by Glasgow artists Duncan Campbell, Alex Frost and Mark Vernon.

Group show at a Los Angeles gallery, with Cathy Wilkes, Lucy McKenzie, Simon Starling, Jim Lambie, Jonnie Wilkes.

The Neuer Aachener Kunstverein invited The Modern Institute to work on a project for the architecture school in Aachen. The Modern Institute in turn invited Torsten Lauschmann and Michael Wilkinson, who renovated the students' cafe, returning it to its original 1960s condition.

A series of projects by Superflex, Aleksandra Mir, Jens Haaning, Dan Peterman, Henrik Håkansson and Jeremy Deller, plus 1960s posters by Sture Johannesson and images from Palle Nielsen's 1968 show 'Model for a qualitative society' at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Group show including Cathy Wilkes Mary Redmond Martin Boyce and Jim Lambie.

The Modern Institute will research and run a 4 month show covering the Glasgow music scene, with a live venue / club lounge at night. The Modern Channel will run for 4 Months broadcasting live events and commissioned filmed interviews. There will also be a comprehensive film archive.