New projects announced & priority booking opens for ticketed events

Earlier this morning we announced two major new projects for the festival. In addition to our earlier programme announcement, we’ll be presenting the work of Jeremy Deller and Wolfgang Tillmans. We’re also taking this opportunity to open up priority G.I.P. booking for some of our ticketed events at the Festival.

Jeremy Deller
For GI Festival 2012, Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller will present Sacrilege, a major new, interactive public artwork to be situated on Glasgow Green. Characteristic of Deller’s on-going exploration of contemporary culture, the ambitious new commission will be his first public project in Scotland with investment from Creative Scotland.

Sacrilege has been co-commissioned by GI Festival 2012 in collaboration with the Mayor of London. The work is set to head to London during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Wolfgang Tillmans
The Common Guild will present Scotland’s first solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans since 1995.

The show will include an important group of works acquired by the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre. Works featured in the exhibition will be exemplary of the range of Tillmans’ practice which over the past two decades has been thought to have redefined photography.

First recognised in the early 1990s for his intensely affecting and unconventional images of friends and other young people in his social circle, he has developed a highly developed style of image making that encompasses a broad range of subjects and includes a powerfully unique presentation. In 2000 he became the first photographer to win the Turner Prize and in 2009 he was awarded the Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie. 

Priority G.I.P. booking for ticketed events
From today, G.I.P.s will be able to take advantage of priority booking for three ticketed Festival events:
- The Making Of
- A Piece Danced Alone
- No Meal is Complete Without Conversation

We expect demand to be high for all of these events and booking will open to the public from Wednesday 22nd February.

To become a G.I.P. and secure your ticket for these events today, sign up now. As well as priority booking, you’ll also gain acess to a range of exclusive benefits and your support will help the festival grow.