Thursday, 27 May 2010

eca SUMMER SEMINARS - Criticism, the Care and Feeding of, Marjorie Welish from the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Center, New York

Criticism, the Care and Feeding of

eca is very pleases to invited Marjorie Welish from New York, of Elizabeth Foundation Studio Center, New York and currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Art in American Studies at Edinburgh College of Art to give the above Seminar, tomorrow:

Friday 28 May at 3pm in the Wee Red Lounge.

You are warmly invited to attend.

This Seminar is part of a number over the next few weeks from Marjorie, below is the complete list. Introducing her work - http://www.slought.org/images/2002.Welish/ <http://www.slought.org/images/2002.Welish/>  and http://www.slought.org/content/11008/ <http://www.slought.org/content/11008/>

"Marjorie Welish, a poet, painter and art critic, has contributed to several volumes on contemporary art, including Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, and Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics. She is the author of The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2000) and Word Group (forthcoming 2004). Welish is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the International Studio Program, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She is the author of Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In April 2002, Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania produced a conference on her art and writing, the proceedings of which became Of the Diagram: The work of Marjorie Welish <https://mmm1932dulles19-verio.com/slough/store/product_info.php?products_id=30>  (Slought Books, 2003). he exhibits her paintings with Baumgartner Gallery in New York".
Slought Foundation

Criticism, the Care and Feeding of

A Rough Guide: Key Terms, Significant Readings. While appreciation stimulates interest in art and history gives a plausible account of origins, criticism, in response to a specific occasion of art on exhibition, investigates both the presuppositions and the realizations of art. Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

Edinburgh College of Art - Wee Red Lounge -28 May / ]PM

Situated Criticism

Considering works-in-progress in 'Art, Space and Nature' in relation to studio 'crits' Not another assessment (!), this seminar will raise the question: What are the rules of engagement for criticism (vs 'crits') with regard to works-in-progress? Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

Edinburgh College of Art * Room C] (Sculpture) * 4 June / 3PM

Natural Form and the Delta of Formalism

Does form expressed in botanicals (Hugh Cleghorn collection) and in sculptural reliefs (Vincent Fecteau) require differing modes of criticism? Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

Inverleith House * TBC

Word and Image

What is the role of criticism in verbal art? What are the criteria for articulating public speech? In addition to art as polemic, art as explanation comes under review, in discussing criticism as applied to the didactic register of inscriptions and diagrams. Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

Talbot Rice Gallery * I I June / I I AM

Art Criticism and Culture

How does art criticism focus and refocus on certain issues that certain exhibitions provoke? How does criticism address the enterprise of Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez, whose practice is informed through both an international idiom and a national perspectivism? Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

The Fruitmarket Gallery· 18 June / lOAM

Art Criticism and the Canon

On what grounds may the masterpiece be open to criticism? On what grounds is a relic of cultural heritage subject to criticism? Relevant readings to be distributed and discussed.

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art * TBC

Marjorie Welish is an artist/critic whose practice encompasses both painting and poetry. Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Philadelphia: Siought Foundation, 2003) consists of papers given at a conference on her writing and art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Her writings have appeared in Art Monthly,Bomb, Partisan Review and Textual Practice. Currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Art I American Studies at Edinburgh College of Art, she is here to work on specific art projects and to give informal seminars in art criticism at several other sites: Inverleith House, the Talbot Rice Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, and the National Gallery of Scotland. As Fulbright Fellow she has alsotaught seminars in art criticism at the University of Frankfurt, where she worked to complete Oaths? Questions? a limited-edition art book in collaboration with James Siena, published by Granary Books in 2009. Other art grants and fellowships awarded her:Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor Foundation, International Studio Program, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding. Isle of the Signatories (2008) is her most recent book of poems. She was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University in 2005. Welish regularly teaches in the graduate arts programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Pratt Institute.

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Kate Davis Book Launch CCA Saturday 29th May 2-5pm



Kate Davis

Role Forward


BOOK LAUNCH
29th May 2010, 2-5pm
Read Out! Read In! Library resource area
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Tea and cakes, all welcome.

This will be the first major publication charting the development of Kate Davis' practice from 2004 – 2010, culminating in her current two-person exhibition project with Faith Wilding, titled 'The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?' and commissioned for Glasgow International by the CCA, Glasgow. Over this six year period Davis’s work has evolved through specific bodies of work, creating carefully composed environments, which incorporate drawings, collages, sculptural objects and most recently films. These installations often pose questions, or seek to manifest Davis’s responses to the work and practice of other artists, whilst commenting on the ever-shifting political, sociological and cultural environments in which art is produced.
 
The publication features a newly commissioned essay by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, a conversation between Kate Davis and Jason. E Bowman and is designed by Robert Dallas Gray.

'Role Forward' is jointly published by the CCA, Glasgow and Sorcha Dallas.
Supported by The Scottish Arts Council and The Hope Scott Trust.

        Special launch price of £9.00 (normal retail price £12.00)

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Sara Barker - 'Images' 5 June - 31 July 2010 | Preview: 4 June 7-9pm

Sara Barker

'Images'

5 JUNE - 31 JULY 2010

PREVIEW 4 JUNE, 7 – 9PM

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Collective Gallery Press Release - Torsten Lauschmann

   

                            
Collective Gallery
Press Release
 
Torsten Lauschmann
Patchwork Cinema
 
Exhibition, 5 June – 18 July 2010, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
 

Collective is delighted to present a solo exhibition and project by Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschmann’s expansive work incorporates drawing, installation, video, sculpture, performance, events and software creation. A previous work took the form of a worldwide, hoax project ‘World Jump Day’ ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jump_Day). His work questions the preconceived, pushes the possible and investigates hidden aspects of media.
 
“Lauschmann is long overdue wider recognition for a diverse range of work reprocessed for a bewildering variety of venues and audiences. He has a playful approach to the use and misuse of technologies in his practice which has been highly influential on his peers in Scotland.” Dr Neil Mulholland, Director, Centre of Visual & Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art.
 
Collective are working with Edinburgh International Film Festival to provide Torsten with a rich resource for his practice. The new work deconstructs the experience of time and cinema through the projected image - he will use one of the earliest forms of a camera obscura, the now obsolete slide projection and digital video projections.
 
In Collective’s Gallery II, ‘Patchwork Cinema’ is an alternative cinema experience with an assemblage of found film footage sourced by the artist and including early cinema and animation, edited to fit with the opening hours of the gallery, from 11am-5pm. The collaged film footage is echoed in the installation with a patchwork cinema environment including a custom-made curtain. Much of the footage has never been screened in the UK before.
 
Prior to entering ‘Patchwork Cinema’, Gallery I will function as a waiting area for visitors preceding their cinema experience. As part of the waiting space Torsten showsDigital Clock (Growing Zeros)’ 2010 consisting of a looped 24-hour projection of a digital clock with the red numerals changed manually by visible hands. This less formal digital time matches 'correct time' local time. He will also be showing
new video work ‘parlez-vous hollywood?’ (working title).

In Collective’s Guest Room, Lauschmann
will be experimenting with pre-cinema optics, taking the form of a camera obscura.



Event, Thursday 24 June, 8 -9pm
Sideshow
Duration: 30 min
The Filmhouse, Lothian Road,
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival
 
Sideshow is a one–off performance/screening event by artist Torsten Lauschmann, presented and commissioned by Collective in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival.
  
Through intervention and technological trickery, Sideshow questions the formalised cinema experience. In this new work Torsten Lauschmann references the customary cinema experience and highlights the pivotal point in early cinema when film presentation was not prescribed in the same way.
  
Sideshow, which will be presented at the Filmhouse in Cinema 1, uses a creative approach to technology and intervention, the audience are witness to a breakdown of standard cinema conventions and offered an alternative place from which to view film.
 
“Grinding through abstract oddities past and present. Including the ever so popular "What is it?" attraction. Sideshow turns the imitation of life into a special effect. Cinema reunited with its embarrassing family of distasteful grannies and boring cousins. Please leave your mobile switched on and do not touch or feed the animals.” Torsten Lauschmann on Sideshow
  
Collective initiated this new cross-art form residency for Torsten Lauschmann in collaboration with EIFF. For the duration of EIFF 2010, the artist has had access to all areas including industry screenings, film vaults and central film festival hub, offering a rich resource for his practice.
  
Torsten was commissioned to produce new work Sideshow specifically for the context of a cinema as well as the corresponding solo exhibition at Collective.

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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Out of Town Event: Utopia is Back 22/05 - 20/06/2010, 798 Beijing


deveron arts
the town is the venue
                                                                                      huntly ab54 8br | tel 01466-794494


22 May - 20 June 2010
Utopia Group presents:
UTOPIA IS BACK
Visual Space, 798, Beijing
Deveron Arts <http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=53090140&msgid=423742&act=B4SY&c=479857&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deveron-arts.com>  is pleased to announce an exhibition by the Utopia Group at the Visual Arts Spce in Beijing from the 22nd of May to the 20th of June 2010.
An exhibition of works from Deng Dafei's and He Hai's Palace of Puzzles project which took place in Huntly in 2009, Curated by Gu Zenqing.
 
Palace of Puzzles <http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=53090140&msgid=423742&act=B4SY&c=479857&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deveron-arts.com%2Fwb%2Fpages%2Fartists%2Futopia-group.php%3Fsearchresult%3D1%26sstring%3Dutopia%2Bgroup%23wb_482>  was a project by the The Utopia Group (Deng Dafei and He Hai) from China who took us on an exciting journey, unearthing the legacy of James Legge (1815-1897), Huntly born Sinologist and translator of major works (Confucius, I Ching, Chinese Classics) into English from Chinese, in the context of globalisation.
 
Utopia is Back
Opening Saturday 22 May 2010. 17:00
Visual Space
798 Art District
2 Jiuxianqiao Road
Beijing
China

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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

They Do Things Differently There


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Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Berlin Biennale: Curatorial Workshop and Art Education

The 6th Berlin Biennale introduces this year's curatorial workshop and art education:

CURATORIAL WORKSHOP REAL PLAYERS
on the occasion of the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Based on the success of the curatorial workshops held in relation to the 4th and 5th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, supported by the Goethe-Institut Munich, Allianz Cultural Foundation, and BMW takes the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as an occasion to once again strengthen the initiative of young curators by organizing a workshop for thirteen young, international aspirants of this field.

The curatorial workshop Real Players will take place around the opening days of the 6th Berlin Biennale from June 5 to 15, 2010. Consisting of ten days of seminars and debates, as well as exhibition and studio visits, it aims to enhance the young curators' professional development by exploring in depth topics of this year's edition of the biennial. The workshop will thus emphasize the question of how to navigate, think, and create new perspectives within our current social context and realities. Further it will provide the young participants with an exclusive look 'behind the scenes' of the 6th Berlin Biennale as well as give insights into the current art production of Berlin, supplemented by a two-day excursion to Warsaw.

Public Lecture by Boris Groys
As part of the curatorial workshop a public lecture by Boris Groys will be held on June 9, 2010 at 6 pm in Festsaal Kreuzberg (Skalitzer Straße 130, Berlin-Kreuzberg).
Lecture in English, admission free.

The curatorial workshop Real Players was organized by the Berlin Biennale in cooperation with Goethe-Institut e. V., Munich, Allianz Cultural Foundation, and BMW.

Media partner: artnet AG

Further details on the curatorial workshop can be found HERE <http://www.berlinbiennale.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=148&Itemid=209<=en> .

ART EDUCATION

The multifaceted, multilingual art education program opens a broad spectrum of perspectives on the 6th Berlin Biennale. In public guided tours visitors are led through the exhibition sites and the artistic positions are presented.

Public Guided Tours
1-hour public tours in German take place in the three main exhibition sites and can be attended without advance reservation.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, Berlin-Mitte
Every Thursday at 4 pm, every Saturday at 2 pm
5 EUR, concessions 3 EUR (admission to the exhibition not included)

Oranienplatz 17, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Every Thursday at 6 pm, every Saturday at 4 pm
5 EUR, concessions 3 EUR (admission to the exhibition not included)

Both venues: 7 EUR, concessions: 5 EUR (admission to the exhibition not included)

Alte Nationalgalerie / Old National Gallery, Bodestr. 1-3, Berlin-Mitte
Every Thursday at 7 pm, every Sunday at 3 pm
3 EUR (admission to the exhibition not included)

Meeting point: Ticket desk at the respective venues

Guided Tours for groups and school classes
art:berlin, in cooperation with the visitor services of the National Museums in Berlin, offers guided tours for groups larger than 15 persons upon registration. The tours are available in German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish or in sign language. Naturally an individual version of the guided tours can be arranged.

Booking:
art:berlin
T: 0049 (0)30-280963-90
F: 0049 (0)30-280963-91
info@artberlin-online.de
www.artberlin-online.de

Satellite Projects
In cooperation with the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts five so-called "Satellite Projects" have been developed, which, based on the 6th Berlin Biennale's contents, create alternative approaches to art and bring the local public and various social groups into dialog with the exhibition.
Amongst others these include:

Mein lokales Modell and Visionsbox
Two projects in cooperation with students of the Nürtingen Primary School in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
The starting point of the projects is the architectural model of the quarter of Kreuzberg that is on display in the Kreuzbergmuseum (Adalbertstraße 95A, Berlin-Kreuzberg). It is here that the project's results are on show.
Opening: 2.7.2010, 5 pm

Werkzeug Wahrnehmung - A walk between guided tour and self experiment
An approximately 1-hour walk with visually impaired and sighted persons.
Including talks and practical exercises (e. g. "Does your nose understand the 6th Berlin Biennale?"), the walk will lead to the works of the 6th Berlin Biennale and into the neighborhood of Kreuzberg.
Dates: 13.6.2010, noon / 18.6.2010, 5.30 pm / 20.6.2010, noon / 2.7.2010, 4 pm
Admission: 2,50 EUR, Booking: visit@berlinbiennale.de

The Satellite Projects are realized by the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts, in cooperation with Förderverein Art in Context and the Nürtingen Primary School in Berlin-Kreuzberg, and are supported by Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung.


Events
During the course of the exhibition, events will be organized for and with the public, neighborhood, and the art education team, taking place at Dresdener Strasse 14, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Details regarding the Satellite Projects and all further dates of events will be announced on the website www.berlinbiennale.de.


Rückkopplungen - Kunst und Lebenswirklichkeiten
2.-4.7.2010
From July 2 to 4, 2010, in a project titled Rückkopplungen - Kunst und Lebenswirklichkeiten various local, national, and international approaches to participatory art education and cultural education will be presented and discussed.
The project is a cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education.


The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.


KW Institute for Contemporary Art
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
D-10117 Berlin

www.kw-berlin.de
www.berlinbiennale.de

www.facebook.com/KWInstituteforContemporaryArt
www.facebook.com/BerlinBiennale

Weitere Informationen / Further Information:
Denhart v. Harling . T +49. 30. 243459. 42 . press@berlinbiennale.de

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Friday, 14 May 2010

Invitation: I’m Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs




not there

de Appel Curatorial Programme
2009/2010

Opening: 16th April, 6 – 10 p.m.
17th April – 6th June 2010





I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs is an exhibition that brings together a group of 14 international artists. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the film of Todd Haynes' I'm Not There (2007), in which six actors depict different facets of Bob Dylan's life and his artistic persona while Dylan himself is absent from the film. Francis Alÿs is the absent protagonist of the exhibition. The atmosphere of Alÿs's work is implicitly present without suggesting literal illustration of his oeuvre or specific aspects of his practice. By shifting the spotlight from a well-established artist to a group of related artistic practices, the exhibition not only redistributes agency to all of the participating artists, but also engenders a critical interrogation of the format of the solo show. We invite the audience to think about Alÿs by thinking about the artists in the exhibition and thus to challenge the privileging of presence over absence.


Participating Artists:
Mounira Al Solh (LB/NL), Stefan Brüggemann (MX/UK), Vaast Colson (BE), Luisa Cunha (PT), Grier Edmundson (US), Noa Giniger (IL/NL), André Guedes (PT), Tatiana Mesa (CU), Gustav Metzger (UK), Roman Ondák (SK), Pak Sheung Chuen (HK/CN), Wilfredo Prieto (CU/ES), Ariel Schlesinger (IL/DE), David Sherry (UK)
Opening Hours:
11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Tuesday – Sunday

Performances:
– David Sherry, at the opening & 17 April, 12 – 3 p.m., in the neighbourhood of the Boys' School;
– André Guedes, occurs throughout the exhibition;
– Tatiana Mesa, 17th Nov, 5 p.m. 2010 in La Habana, Cuba & Miami, United States
Magazine Reading:
Mounira Al Solh: 20th, 21st April & 4th, 5th May, 12 – 5 p.m. (Reservation by email: reservation@deappel.nl)

Guided Tours:
all 3 p.m., 17th April in English, 24th April in Dutch, 1st May in Portuguese, 8th May in Hebrew, 15th May in Spanish, 22nd May in Chinese.

Sunday School:
6th June (close reading of one art work by an expert)

Venue:
de Appel Boys' School, Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59, 1072 BD Amsterdam
Curated by:
Nikita, Yingqian Cai (CN), Alhena Katsof (CAN), Direlia Lazo (CU), Yael Messer (IL), Alan Quireyns (BE),Luis Silva (PT)
A catalogue will be available in the exhibition space or can be ordered via bookshop@deappel.nl from 16th April onwards
For further information:
www.imnothere.eu

This project was made possible with the support and co-operation
of AFK (Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst), de Appel and SKOR (Foundation Art and Public Space). With thanks to Francis Alÿs, Raul Ortega, Leanne Dmyterko, Sophie O' Brien



All Art Initiatives Call for Entries



 14, 2010
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All Art Initiatives Call for Entries

The Métamatic Research Initiative is launching a call for entries to commission six individual art works in line with its mission. The initiative welcomes proposals from visual artists working in all disciplines.

The Métamatic Research Initiative's mission is to stimulate research into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Specifically, the research initiative focuses on Tinguely's exploration of the relationship between the artist, the art work and the viewer as expressed in his Métamatic sculptures. The call for entries is part of a broader effort of the initiative, in which funding will be given to both academic and artistic research activities, ranging from educational projects for young people to the commissioning of individual art works.

The Métamatic Research Initiative
The Swiss born artist Jean Tinguely lived most of his artistic life in Paris, where he was one of the initiators of the Nouveau Réalisme movement in 1960. Tinguely was amongst the leading artists incorporating movement and other time-based elements in his work. By the late 1950s Tinguely embarked on a series of generative apparatus he called Métamatics, based on the idea of machines producing art works. With this series of works Tinguely not only problematised the introduction of the robotic machine as interface in our society, but moreover investigated the role of the artist, as well as that of the art work and the viewer. Out of a fascination with this specific topic within Tinguely's work the initiative wishes to stimulate research into the ways in which contemporary artists deal with the relation between artist, viewer and art work. This project kicked off on 25-27 October, when the Initiative hosted an expert meeting in Amsterdam where 9 renowned scholars and artists g athered to discuss the topic, and to set parameters for further artistic and academic research.
The aim of this research is two-fold:
- to generate a high-profile collection of 'art producing objects',
- to support and stimulate awareness and knowledge on the subject through:
scientific research, exhibitions, and educational programmes on different levels.

Who are we?
The Métamatic Research Initiative is an initiative of the All Art Initiatives Foundation, based in Amsterdam. The foundation is a privately funded non-profit foundation set up to stimulate visual art through the funding of:
- artistic and academic research, - monographs on artists and other publications,
- projects that will increase exposure and make the media available to a wider audience,
- stimulate the incorporation of relevant works in public collections, both in the Netherlands and abroad.

The deadline for entries is 1 June 2010. For further information visit our website http://www.metamaticresearch.info. Press kits will be available upon request at info@metamaticresearch.info or call Siebe Tettero.

Siebe Tettero
All Art Initiatives Foundation, Amsterdam
siebe@allartinitiatives.org
+31 20 520 6016

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EMBASSY presents: Captain of all Pleasures

Richard Cook | Mike Pratt | Derek Sutherland | Chris Walker

22.05.10 – 05.06.10
Thursday – Sunday 12-6pm
Opening: 21.05.10 7-9pm

EMBASSY
2 Roxburgh Pl,
Edinburgh,
EH8 9SU

Brought together by a polarised sensibility, four artists channel the waves of dystopic transcendentalism shooting out from a 21st Century dialectical sense of living.

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EMBASSY GALLERY is registered in Scotland Company Number:259872 and Charity No. SC035780
EMBASSY is supported by: Scottish Arts Council <http://www.scottisharts.org.uk>  Edinburgh College of Art <http://www.eca.ac.uk>  and Edinburgh University Settlement <http://www.eus.org.uk

FW: PRESS RELEASE: 2010 Turner Prize Nominees Exhibit with Edinburgh College of Art

2010 Turner Prize Nominees

The Otolith Group Exhibit in Edinburgh College of Art Collaboration

“They Do Things Differently There”
Venue: Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Dates: Sat 5 to Sat 19 June, 2010
Opening: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm
Admission: Free

PRESS PREVIEW: Friday 4 June, 3-4pm, images available (see below)
PRIVATE VIEW: Friday 4 June 6-8pm

2010 Turner Prize nominees, The Otolith Group will screen Otolith II for the first time in Scotland in a collaborative exhibition by MA students at Edinburgh College of Art.
They Do Things Differently There is a collaborative curatorial project by Edinburgh College of Art’s Contemporary Art Theory and Visual & Material Culture MA students. Coming from diverse backgrounds including; art practice, art history, design, anthropology, conservation, and visual communication, the group has come together as part of their assessment to explore the many facets of curating and a common theme of perceptions of time. The culmination of this collective project is an exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, which has evolved and developed from the group’s shared interest in the archival process, influenced initially by the historical significance of the gallery itself. Exploring the practice of collecting and exhibiting has become the foundation for this exhibition.

Historical collections are bound up with traditions and memories which repeat and reinvent themselves. When considering how we look at collections today, it is impossible to ignore the chronology of histories and the categorisation of time. From this, an interest was developed in looking at time as a nonlinear process. The ways in which we look at the past are always relative because time is forever moving forward, and as soon as the present seems the only identifiable entity, it is no longer the present, but at once, the past. They Do Things Differently There explores the infinite mysteries of time. Included works examine temporality and the delineation of time through questions of personal and shared identity, the perception of the past and the notion of collecting.
Also featuring in this exciting project will be Duncan Campbell’s Fall Burns Malone Fiddles, a film of meticulously gathered material from community photographic archives in Belfast. Newly commissioned work and live performance from Glasgow-based artist and musician Raydale Dower will respond to the legacy of Eric Satie. Also exhibiting new work will be Omar Zingaro Bhatia, Tracey Eastham, Stuart David Fallon and Ailsa Lochhead. London-based David Raymond Conroy will reinterpret existing installations specific to the structure of the gallery, and Lorna Macintyre will exhibit works made for her solo show at Kunsthaus Baselland earlier this year. Other artists include Ross Chisholm, S Mark Gubb & Road Kill, and Thomson & Craighead.
Full Artist List: Omar Zingaro Bhati, Duncan Campbell, Ross Chisholm, Raydale Dower, Tracey Eastham, Stuart David Fallon, S Mark Gubb & Road Kill, Ailsa Lochhead, Lorna Macintyre, The Otolith Group, Thomson & Craighead, David Raymond Conroy

Curators: Steven Cox, Laura Edbrook, Ruta Franke, Rebecca Gilbert, Rocca Gutteridge, Maria Koumianou, Sarah Morris, Robby Ogilvie, Maria Sampedro, Louise Thody, Sarah Usher
Panel Discussion: Saturday 12 June, 2010, 2-4pm
Confirmed speakers: Anne-Marie Kramer (University of Warwick) and Daniel Watt (Loughborough University)
Gallery Tour: Thursday 17 June, 2010, 6-8pm
The exhibition is open to the public from 5-19 June 2010, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm and admission is free. Visitors can access the gallery either through the University of Edinburgh’s historic Old Quad on South Bridge, or by West College Street from Chambers Street.  Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

Press View: Members of the press are welcome to view the exhibition between 3pm and 4pm on Friday 4 June or by appointment. Please contact Louise Thody for images and further information: louise.r.thody@eca.ac.uk Tel: 07879 645 573

For further details on the gallery please visit the website www.trg.ed.ac.uk <http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/>

Notes to Editors
  1. The University of Edinburgh, of which Talbot Rice Gallery is part, must be mentioned in any articles. Thank you.

  2. The Gallery promotes knowledge, understanding and new ideas, realised through solo and thematic exhibitions, events and publications.

  3. A programme of events accompanies the exhibition full details are available. Please contact rocca.gutteridge@eca.ac.uk <mailto:rocca.gutteridge@eca.ac.uk> for more information

  4. Talbot Rice Gallery is funded by The University of Edinburgh and The Scottish Arts Council.