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Scott Rogers

12 September – 1 November 2015

Exhibitions Satellites

Endling was an exhibition of new work by Glasgow based artist Scott Rogers, developed as part of Satellites Programme 2015. Endling is a term used to describe the last remaining member of a species that will soon become extinct. Incorporating sculpture and text, the exhibition was the culmination of research developed from Scott’s interest in processes of decay, mutation and disappearance. The artworks focused on ideas of extinction and the relationships and contradictions between preservation and collapse.

Central to the exhibition was a text work developed between the artist and cultural anthropologist Shirley Lindenbaum on the subject of kuru, a neurological disorder experienced by the South Fore people in Papua New Guinea. Similar to Mad Cow Disease and often referred to as ‘Laughing Sickness’, the disorder spread predominantly due to the consumption of human brain matter and was eventually eradicated through the introduction of western cultural practices. Concentrating on Shirley’s fieldwork with the South Fore people the text considered the link between the epidemic and cultural change, particularly in relation to colonialism.


Download the exhibition information here


Read the Satellites 2015 Publication here


Satellites Programme is Collective’s development programme for emergent artists and producers based in Scotland. 2015 participants were: Georgia Horgan, Thomas Aitchison, France-Lise McGurn, Scott Rogers and Hardeep Pandhal


This is an archived programme entry.

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