Invitation to Forms is part of How Forms Live, a research project developed by Kate Briggs and Sarah Tripp.

Invitation to Forms was an exhibition examining ‘form’ commissioned by Glasgow International 2018.

The exhibition explores what we now mean by ‘the formal’ in the context of moving image, performance and writing practice.

The Poet’s Corner is a preserved Victorian library in Glasgow and one starting point for an installation of rich and diverse research materials on form presented by the writers and artists: Kate Briggs, Joseph Buckley, Francis McKee, Vivian Sky Rehberg and Nina Wakeford. The exhibition was curated by Sarah Tripp and designed by Stephen Murray.

The exhibition offered a new idiosyncratic vocabulary for talking about form, and, in so doing, brought a varied inquiry into what we mean by form when we speak of it in relation to art.