WE NEED MORE KARAOKE VIDEOS!

Yuck ‘n Yum are delighted to announce that the fourth Annual General Karaoke will be held in Dundee on Saturday 9th of November 2013 as part of the NEoN festival.

What’s the AGK? You must have been living under a rock!

OK listen up and listen up good: it’s a karaoke night where YOU make the videos. You might sing along yourself, or a friend could take the stage and give the performance of a lifetime. Anything can happen. It’s a karaoke video competition!

Want to submit a karaoke video? The free deadline is October 14th, slackers get until October 21st but pay a tenner, and the AGK champ gets £300!

For full details on how to submit your video, handy tips and for all the latest up to date AGK news visit agk.yucknyum.org

Yuck ‘n Yum have returned from their self-imposed exile at Cove Park, full of plans and an unearthly natural glow that might be “health” (something our friends outside Dundee assure us exists).

Old-timers Andrew Maclean and Gayle Meikle have finished their sabbaticals and have returned to corporeal form. They’ve gained some metaphysical new powers, and are already imparting their newfound wisdom. Alexandra Ross remains on hiatus while she finishes her PhD. Sadly, newby Dan Faichney has flown the nest to follow his dreams and pursue his career at DCA. We wish him all the best – adieu, sweet pal.

In other news, there’s a commotion on the horizon… amidst the babble of dæmoniac voices, three intelligible letters alone seem to be reverberating nearer: “A… G… K…”
Could it be time to prepare for that bizarre karaocchanalia again? All we can do is wait on the soon-to-be-announced press release…

Finally, a-n have included us in their publication Signpost’s “Hot 100” list. We’re happy to see some of our friends in there too. Check it out here.

This coming weekend the Yuck ‘n Yum team will be heading to Cove Park for a two day intensive head to head.  The team will be working on future plans for the collective whilst taking in the serenity of their surroundings.  We will be posting updates online as and when we can through the usual channels.

Cove Park is a residency space that actively responds to the diversity of contemporary artistic practice in all the art forms, whether performing or visual arts, crafts, literature or music. Their interdisciplinary programmes, for both individuals and collaborating groups, offer time, space and freedom to make new work and to find new ways of working. For more information about Cove Park please visit here.

Join us at the Arches Glasgow for our summer launch!

STOP PRESS… Stefan Blomeier disappears in mysterious circumstances 48 hours before Arches performance… Mother Ganga to step into the breach!

Enigmatic mathematician and visuals mixologist Stefan Blomeier was last seen clutching his cathode ray tube and visual mixer two days ago. Rumours abound of him flying to Tai Pei, while others have him heading for Switzerland to continue his developmental research at the Hadron Collider.

Step forward Mother Ganga with acid-flecked liquid pop music zoning out over tape textures… plus TYCI Collective, Bob Flambé and Steaming Turd. Be there!

The Yuck ‘n Yum summer 2013 launch is coming, and it’s all set to be our biggest, loudest, most spectacular event yet! From Tuesday 18th June we’re taking over Glasgow’s leading arts venue the Arches to bring you a show that will reinvent DJing as a performative artwork. We’ll be pitched up in the foyer and entrance spaces until July 22nd, and we’d love to have you join us. With acclaimed acts including Stefan Blomeier, TYCI collective, Bob Flambé and Steaming Turd.  

Paying homage to the legendary Euro Dance rave at Prestwick Airport, Street Rave parties at the Ayr Pavilion and subsequently Colours at the Arches, Stefan Blomeier will present a selection of music rooted in the sound of Acid house, chronicling the history of Scottish rave culture throughout the 1990s. Bob Flambé and Steaming Turd promise to enthrall you with a space Moog experience with abstract humorous homologies, and TYCI will perform a theatrical DJ extravaganza.

Zine, music, art and performance are all guaranteed!

Launch event and performance 18th of June  6-8, the Arches, Glasgow
exhibition runs until the 22nd of July featuring current cover artist Cos Ahmet, Stefan Blomeier, Bob Flambé and Steaming Turd, and TYCI collective.

In other news, we are excited to announce the winner of the Impact Residency: Beatrice Haines. Out of over 110 applications, London-based artist Beatrice Haines has been selected to work within Abertay University’s ground-breaking forensic science department this summer, as the University’s artist-in-residence.

Spending up to four days in the lab with Dr Kevin Farrugia, Beatrice will explore the many ways in which print visualisation techniques – such as chemical enhancement and specialised photography – can be manipulated to recover finger- and shoeprints from crime scenes.

The purpose of the residency is to produce a work of art that will be exhibited at the inaugural Print Festival Scotland – a celebration of the cultural diversity, historical significance and future potential of print.

The Festival will run alongside the world renowned Impact8 International Printmaking Conference, which will be held this year in Dundee.

You can read the full press release on the Impact Residency website

Forensics enthusiasts take note! The deadline for our joint residency with Abertay University and Impact 8 is approaching. Send us your submission by the 19th of April.
We’ve heard that some applicants have had their submission emails blocked by Abertay uni’s spam filters (apparently universities aren’t keen on being emailed folders of images from strangers). If this happens to you, please share your submission material with us by Dropbox instead.

After its dramatic birth-by-zine-fair, our Spring issue has wound its way online. You can read it now, or download the PDF to print your own version. Hard copies are winging their way to our stockists now.

And we’re already taking submissions for our Summer issue. Here’s Sir Cliff to tell you about the deadline:

Finally, a reminder that the deadline for applications to our awesome printmaking/forensics residency is drawing near. Send in your application by the 19th of April.

The weather may be unspringly, but the Yuck ‘n Yum release schedule is pointing to Spring o’Clock. It’s a new year, and we have a new issue of Yuck ‘n Yum with a new look, thanks to this year’s cover artist Cos Ahmet.
We’re launching our Spring issue on the 31st of March at Empire State Coffe in Dundee – and to celebrate, we’re holding our second zine fair with some of our best zine-friends! Here is the poster, by long-time Yuck ‘n Yum pal Paul Milne:

As part of the inaugural Print Festival Scotland, the Hannah Maclure Centre, Abertay University’s exhibition space and cultural hub, and Yuck ‘n Yum are teaming up. Together we are offering an artist-in-residency opportunity within the university’s ground-breaking forensic science department.

We’re really excited to be able to offer this opportunity! You can read full details about how to apply at http://impact.yucknyum.org.
Send your submissions to exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2013.
The residency itself will take place the week beginning June 17.