Travelling Gallery show
The Travelling Gallery’s new exhibition ‘Real Time Friction’ is rolling out work that interrogates how tech and the internet create both connection and inauthenticity — timely territory for creators wrestling with authenticity online []. The show foregrounds artist responses to digital culture rather than tech celebration.
The tour opens at Collective Gallery on Calton Hill on March 20, 2026, with visiting hours listed as 10:30–16:30 for the launch day ([edinburgh.gov.uk)]. The Travelling Gallery season runs from March 20 to June 19, 2026, and will stop at arts venues, community centres, high streets and schools across Scotland ([sca-net.org)] including planned visits in East Lothian, Angus, Moray, the Cairngorms, Skye, Renfrewshire and Falkirk. ([edinburgh.gov.uk)] The lineup brings together MV Brown, Nina Davies, Gavin Gayagoy, Hardeep Pandhal and Gregor Wright as the five featured artists for real-time friction ([travellinggallery.com)]; the programme mixes performance, moving image, sculpture and drawing rather than survey-style tech celebration. ([travellinggallery.com)] MV Brown’s contribution uses avatars, prototypes and “false‑self” hoods to probe bodily tension in digital realms ([travellinggallery.com)], while Gavin Gayagoy presents interactive, game‑informed 3D environments that invite visitor play and critique compulsive digital consumption. ([travellinggallery.com)] Nina Davies appears with work from her Image Syncers project (single‑channel HD video, 11'51", edition of 5) that examines TikTok‑style choreography and synthetic image cultures ([future.gallery)], and Hardeep Pandhal contributes pieces using gaming aesthetics to comment on cultural production, capitalism and racial stereotyping. ([travellinggallery.com)] Local stop details already publicised include a Bleachingfield Centre car park appearance in Dunbar on March 26 ([midlothianview.com)] and a visit to the Community Wellbeing Collective on March 30 (11:00–17:00). ([digitalsentinel.net)] Curator Louise Briggs framed the show as a close examination of technology’s “slippery nature” and distortions of authenticity rather than a blanket critique, language used in the launch materials distributed by Travelling Gallery. ([europesays.com)]
