Pebbles from a Machine is a Glasgow based artist collective, with varied interests in film, writing, painting, sculpture and sound but a collective interest in world building and immersive mixed media installation works - often humorous, absurd or surreal.
Pebbles is a reimagining of community; as joke/ fumble/ slip of the tongue/ proposition/ the infinite and invariable drive of the human animal to be with and dream with others, a musing on the value of labour in a post-industrial hyper-reality.
We strive as best as possible to be a collective project with no individual ownership over its products, knowing fine well this is a joke. A Tower of Babel. Our tower swings in the wind, its foundations are fantastical and unstable. A cacophony of interweaving processes, happenings, performance and objects that form a factory of the affective and self-referential. Disposable ideas subject to the autonomy of a group rather than any individual. People can make worlds with each other; new ones, recreations of old ones, half remembered or mistranslated. Ideas and works are ripped to bits, repurposed and reappropriated in the name of collectivist and speculative making. There’s more than some religiosity in true atheism. Pebbles From a Machine is made from waste, and throwing shit at a wall.
Several of us are from Glasgow and the surrounding areas, all have lived here for at least 6 years. As a collective we have a vested interested in Glasgows DIY art scene and are committed to a continued active involvement in this community. Amongst the involved artists two studio/workshops are ran both in bridgeton which provide cheap rent for artists.
