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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Rhubaba presents Well-Done: Tom Varley




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Hosted by Tom Varley

Thursday 28th November at Rhubaba, 7pm prompt. Booking essential, tickets available here

 

What is it like to be a member of another species?
Can the objective study of nervous tissue account for the subjective character of experience?
Is it ok to eat arthropods with no cerebral cortices coz they don't have any feelings?

Unanswerable questions posed by amateur researcher.
Observable feast served by trained professionals.
Colour enslaved by line that becomes writing.

 

**Please note we will be serving shellfish.**


 

Tom Varley (b. 1985) is an artist working in a range of media, including film, writing, painting and collage. His work is concerned with the relationship between symbolic communication and abstraction, often playing on malfunctioning speech or defective typographies to reveal the arbitrariness of the shapes and sounds that make up written and spoken language. Tom is based in Glasgow.

 

Well-Done is a programme of commissions in which Rhubaba has invited Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, BAZ and Tom Varley to each host a meal during the winter months of 2013. The meal, its structure and the potential act of hosting, is intended as a starting point for the artists to each develop new work (be that an event, an evening of eating and talking or something else entirely).

 


Project supported by Creative Scotland.

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Other News

Come along to the Rhubaba choir Thursday nights bi-monthly, 6.30 - 8.30! Next rehearsal have been rescheduled for Friday November 29th. See the choir page of the website for more details.


We are working with David Horvitz for our studio commission see his work anytime you are in the building over the next few months.

Hope to see you along the way!





 


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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Join the Rhubaba Choir! This Thursday, 6pm.


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Please join us at Rhubaba for the inaugural meeting of the new Rhubaba Choir (aka. The Sweet Singers)! 

The choir will initially be meeting twice-monthly, on Thursday evenings.

The first meeting will be this Thursday, 19th September at 6pm. There'll be some light refreshments and a good chance to discuss the project as well as getting straight into some singing and vocal exercises.

As well as being a chance to sing together in a group and share experience, the choir will become a commissioning platform for new works, intended to provide invited artists, musicians and writers with the resource of collective voices as a material. Rhubaba will invite artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir, whether through more traditional music or by using the voice in other ways - speech, noise etc.

The repertoire of the choir will be defined by the choir members themselves. So if you have particular songs you would like to sing (whether already a choral piece or not) then you can make that suggestion to the group and discuss how it could be done. 

If you are looking for a fun and exciting way to come together with a community of people, enjoy singing and want to be challenged in the ways you use your voice then the choir could be for you. 

We are not looking for professional standard singing and welcome anyone who wants to lend their voice to the chorus. 

We already have two commissions to work on, so come along to find out what they will be!

If you'd like any more information or wish to join but can't make it along on Thursday then feel free to email us at info@rhubaba.org.

 




Upcoming:

Well-done

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Tom Varley and BAZ.

Each contributing artist has been invited to 'host a meal' during the winter months of 2013. The meal, its structure and the potential act of hosting, is intended as a starting point for each guest to develop new work (be that an event, an evening of eating and talking or something else entirely).

More news on these new commissions and associated events will follow shortly.




Tom Varley - Violence. Silence., 2013, 16mm transferred to HD Video, 5 mins.





Past but not forgotten:
 

Lovely Sky (Participatory Imagineering)

Lucy Pawlak – CEO in residence (COE-IR)

2 August – 1 September 2013





Documentation of Lucy Pawlak's period as CEO in residence during her project Lovely Sky (Participatory Imagineering) is now online here.

Thank you to all who participated, in particular to those who contributed to the various Magic Hours throughout the month.




 





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Thursday, 18 April 2013

PNCA announces The Hannah Arendt Prize, call for submissions

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Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
Call for submissions: The Hannah Arendt Prize
in Critical Theory and Creative Research


Application deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013

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Entry submission: essay of 1,500 words or less
Application deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013
Theme: On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention?
Cash award: 5,000 USD

Winner announced by Saturday, August 31, 2013

Please note that essays over the limit will be disqualified.

The Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory and Creative Research is an annual competition for those interested in the juncture of art and creative research and in the principles at the heart of the arts and humanities, including sense-based intelligence; the reality of singular, nonrepeatable phenomena; ethical vision; and consilience between inner and outer, nature and reason, thought and experience, subject and object, self and world.

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Explication of theme:

To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits. The history of human progress amounts to a series of Promethean acts. But autonomy is also attained in the daily workings of individual lives by means of many small Promethean disobediences, at once clever, well thought out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely. All that remains in such a case is an equivocal, diluted form of guilt. I would say that there is good reason to study the dynamics of disobedience, the spark behind all knowledge.

--Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

Intervention is an omnipresent if not ubiquitous word in contemporary discourse, but what forms does it take in the age of genetic engineering and real-time media? Is the concept a decoy or distraction in the face of futility? A cover or compensation for hopeless battles and set-ups? Is it simply working to slow down the Inevitable, a notion that in and of itself works as a major obstacle to critical thought and action? Or is it something more serious, more durable, and more dangerous? What is the relation of critique and intervention, theory and practice? And what role does art play in what Bachelard called "creative disobedience," acts of Prometheanism "so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely"? Might art now comprise one of the last forms of political stealth, working in increasingly sophisticated time-based ways? What kinds of thought and action are powerful and compelling interventions today, whether one-off spectacles, sabots, monkey wrenches, sleepers, gummy bears, or Trojan Horses?

Along with Anne-Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders, Founding Co-Chairs, MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research, Pacific Northwest College of Art, the judges for 2013 include:

Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History, Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, The University of California, Berkeley, and Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy, Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien/EGS
Barbara Duden, Professor Emerita, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Julia Kristeva, Professor Emerita and Head of the École doctorale Langues, Littératures, Images, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, and recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought
Heike Kühn, film critic
Martha Rosler, artist and contributor to the Hannah Arendt Denkraum (on the occasion of Hannah Arendt's 100th birthday)

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

OCCUPY THE FUTURE / THE PROSPECT OF A UTOPIAN SCOTLAND / ANTHONY SCHRAG

OCCUPY THE FUTURE / THE PROSPECT OF A UTOPIAN SCOTLAND / ANTHONY SCHRAG

2014 approaches and questions of Scotland's future loom large on our shared cultural horizon: What is Scotland's destiny? How will we create that future? How do we manifest our own utopia in relationship to other people's idea of the future? Is it all so uncertain? Or can we create our own providence?

Using Zoe Beloff's theatrical interventions at last year's Occupy protests and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed as starting points, this workshop led by artist Anthony Schrag includes discussions, talks and performances, exploring current debates of an independent Scotland. The day will culiminate in the creation of a collaborative artwork.

A presentation of the works will be open to the public at 4pm, followed by refreshments and an open discussion.


This is a FREE event, but booking is essential. Places are limited to 25.

To book:
Email: info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk
Phone: 0131 650 2210
OR, in person at the Reception Desk

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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

ECONOMY Website Launch: A curatorial project led by the History of Art department at the University of Edinburgh

ECONOMY is a curatorial project realised as a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh's History of Art Department, Stills, Scotland's Centre for Photography and Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
 
The ECONOMY exhibition will open in January 2013 at Stills (Edinburgh) and CCA(Glasgow).  Today we're launching ECONOMY's unique website to generate constructive public discussion on how the economy impacts upon our lives.  You are invited to respond to short polemics penned by local and international writers, activists, journalists and artists. The Scotsman's columnist Joyce McMillan and writer Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt kick things off with a reflection on the promise of Scottish independence in the context of a competitive global economy and a short story about the demise of the Empire of Europe.  Visit the website to upload your own photographs to the Image Archive, participate in the ongoing debates and consult the material in the Reading Room. 
 

Follow this link to contribute: www.economyexhibition.net

In the 21st century, does the economy provide the ground zero of our sense of self? And what does this experience of a life dominated by economic relations feel or even look like? Presented across two cities and online the ECONOMY project addresses issues that range from climate change, labour conditions, sexuality, migration and the crisis of democracy to the quest for alternative futures. 
 

David Aronowitsch & Hanna Heilborn / Ursula Biemann / Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz / Jeremy Deller & Mike Figgis / Tracey Emin / Yevgeniy Fiks, Olga Kopenkina & Alexandra Lerman / Andrea Fraser / Claire Fontaine / Christos Georgiou / Melanie Gilligan / Johan Grimonprez / Andreas Gursky / Francesco Jodice / Kai Kaljo / Ernest Larsen & Sherrie Milner / Owen Logan / Rick Lowe / Angela Melitopoulos / Jenny Marketou / Dani Marti / Marge Monko / Tanja Ostojic / Anu Pennanen / Raqs Media Collective / Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini / Martha Rosler / Maria Ruido / Hito Steyerl / Mitra Tabrizian / Nuria Vila & Marcelo Expósito / WochenKlausur / Paolo Woods / Yorgos Zois

 
Stills
Saturday 19 January - Sunday 21 April 2013 / Monday - Sunday / 11am - 6pm / FREE
Preview Friday 18 January 
 
CCA
Saturday 26 January - Sunday 23 March 2013 / Tuesday - Saturday / 11am - 6pm / FREE
Preview Friday 25 January 
 
Curated by Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd
 
ECONOMY is supported by The Association of Art Historians  / The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust / Creative Scotland  / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V. / Austrian Cultural Forum London / Goethe Institut Glasgow / Finnish Institut in London / Arts Council of Finland / Inigo / City of Edinburgh Council / Glasgow Life / The Nancie Massey Charitable Trust

Monday, 3 December 2012

Upcoming at Embassy Gallery | PERFORMANCE | Christmas Toddlers and Tiaras Beauty Pageant | 7-9PM | 10b Broughton St. Lane

Christmas Toddlers and Tiaras Beauty Pageant
Performance | Sunday 9th December | 7-9PM

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Performance

Sunday 9th December

7-9PM

Infantalist dreams become a reality for a one night extravaganza of baby pageantry. Transform yourself into that preteen beauty queen that hides under the blanket of your granny realness. Make Momma proud.

Wanna be a Baby?
Urara will be hosting open drop-in workshops to help volunteers make costumes and provide advice on how to through a good tantrum.
Friday 7th / Saturday 8th Dec 3-6pm

Timetable of Events

7-8pm

Sewing Workshop
Homely to Glitz in 10-30mins! Come with nothing and walk out a cutie patootie..

Special Feeding Service
Enjoy our favourite food in soft form and one to one attention.

Makeup Tutorials
Express your inner superstar qualities through cosmetic experimentation.

Posing and Catwalk lessons
Learn from celebrity trainers how to impress the judges with glowing toddler confidence
8- 9pm
PAGEANT
with judging followed by crowning

To enter the competition please visit the colorful pageant admin project managing organizational team and fill in a form. You will be asked to present yourself on the runway at 8pm and compete for the following titles…

MINI GRAND SUPREME EDINBURGH GLITZ 2012
LITTLE MISS PRETTY IN THE FACE
EXCEPTIONAL TALENT TIER 4
BEST IN SHOW
NATURAL BEAUTY
and TOTAL TODDLER REALNESS

Pageant winners will receive beautiful crowns, sashes, trophies, portraits, extreme self confidence and a complementary drink at the bar.

The Bar will be serving special pageant Go-Go Juice, Extra Virgin Mary & Sleepy Milk – lurid cocktails to stimulate and get you showing-off in style.

With guest compare Paul Kindersley
http://www.paulkindersley.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/user/thebritisharecumming?feature=watch

As seen at The Glue Factory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQecCJHAvEg

The third performance in 'you've been selected' by Urara Tsuchiya.

Tsuchiya's practice explores the disconcertion that can be found between the personal and social worlds. Her work includes creating performances, videos, and live events. She often incorporates soft sculptures, costumes, masks, and home cooking. These function as props in an alternate environment that make space for different behavior. She works with the binaries of, for example, animal/human and adult/baby to strange and humorous effect. She is interested in challenging the viewer to negotiate his or her own personal and physical boundaries. For instance, sometimes the audience is not invited to participate; instead they find themselves part of an orchestrated scene. Tsuchiya blurs and removes the neutralizing, distanced aspect of making her work obviously 'art'.

Urara was born and raised in Japan. She completed her BA in fine art at Goldsmiths in 2007, and MFA at The Glasgow School of Art in 2012. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.

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The Long Game, Friday 7th December, The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane.


> Lucy Stein, France-Lise McGurn and Rose Ruane invite you to "The Long Game".
> A one night exhibition, with bleeding heart cocktails.
> Friday 7th December 7pm til midnight, The Old Hairdressers, Renfield
> Lane, Glasgow.
> We hope you can make it,
> All best
> Lucy

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Walking off the Grid Discussion

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Walking The Landscape

Michael Höpfner presents his reconstruction of the geography of our landscape. He is joined by Professor Tim Ingold of Aberdeen University.

9 Dec 2012 4.30pm Huntly Hotel

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Walking The Landscape

Walking Off The Grid and The History of Walking talks by Michael Höpfner and Professor Tim Ingold

Michael Höpfner, a walking artist from Austria, has been walking in many places around the world. For this project, Walking off The Grid, he is spending 14 days circling Huntly on a 30 mile route around the Strathbogie area. His walk takes him through Gartly, Glass, Drumblade, Drumdelgie, Cairnie, Rothiemay, Kinnoir and the surrounding countryside. During this time he is reconstructing the geography of the landscape through the conversations, meetings and experiences along the way.

Michael finishes his walk this weekend and will be presenting the outcome of his project along with images and videos on Sunday 9 December, 4.30pm at the Huntly Hotel.

He will be joined by Professor Tim Ingold from the Anthropology department at Aberdeen University who will be giving a talk on the History of Walking.

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Friday, 30 November 2012

Three-fold - In Conversation w/ Catherine Street, Alexandra Ross and Catherine Payton

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Thursday, 29 November 2012

Upcoming at Embassy Gallery | Performance | Stairway to Stardom | Urara Tsuchiya | Sunday 2 Dec | 7-9 pm

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Performance

Sunday 2nd of Dec

7-9pm


Stairway to Stardom

Evening consisting

of

possibly sexy selection of insect films

Amy's Arthropods (half) hour lecture by Amy Jocelyn

and

Instars and Pupals of Fashion designed by Urara Tsuchiya and Anna Tanner

Music by Nick Packer



The second performance in you've been selected by Urara Tsuchiya

Tsuchiya's practice explores the disconcertion that can be found between the personal and social worlds. Her work includes creating performances, videos, and live events. She often incorporates soft sculptures, costumes, masks, and home cooking. These function as props in an alternate environment that make space for different behavior. She works with the binaries of, for example, animal/human and adult/baby to strange and humorous effect. She is interested in challenging the viewer to negotiate his or her own personal and physical boundaries. For instance, sometimes the audience is not invited to participate; instead they find themselves part of an orchestrated scene. Tsuchiya blurs and removes the neutralizing, distanced aspect of making her work obviously 'art'.

Urara was born and raised in Japan. She completed her BA in fine art at Goldsmiths in 2007, and MFA at The Glasgow School of Art in 2012. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.
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Special Effect - Torsten Lauschamann


A project and exhibition by Torsten Lauschmann

With performances by Dave Sherry and Neil Bickerton

And work from: Phil Morton, Ivan Robles Mendoza, William J Beaty, Ronnie Heeps, Shana Moulton, Gregor Wright, Nicky Keogh, Rachel Maclean, Dan Sandin, Mandy McIntosh, Seamus Harahan, Konx-om-Pax, Richard Sides and Torsten Lauschmann

Preview 30th November @ 7pm 10pm

Preview after party continues from 10pm 'til late with set by

FLACCID HAUS
THREE DOWNS
ULTRA LEPAR

And special live sets from

STEVEN LEGGET
ANDY WAKE AND SCOTT DUNCAN
JG WILKES

Exhibition continues until the 15th December, Thursday/Friday/Saturday 2-6pm


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Thursday, 22 November 2012

HEDGE - This weekend at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop


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Wednesday, 21 November 2012

This Friday's Talk: Wood & Harrison

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> WOOD & HARRISON
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> //// Friday 23rd November
> //// 12:30-14:00
> //// Main Lecture Theatre, E22
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> John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively since 1993 producing single screen and installation based video works.
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> The work investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture, developed through short form video (20 seconds – 3 minutes) with particular emphasis on actions being formulated and resolved within a given duration.
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> Each work holds to an internal 'logic', action related to duration. Within this 'logical world' (architectural space, the gallery space, the business office, the laboratory) action is allowed to happen for no logical reason, a tension exists between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and influences are intentionally mixed – art history, slapstick, Open University instruction, drawing, science…
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> Often shot against a clear white background the work closely resembles the drawings (or diagrams) from which they are developed.
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> John Wood and Paul Harrison have had major solo exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Selected group shows include British Council Touring, China; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Kunsthalle Tallin, Estonia; Whitechapel Gallery, London. Works held in collections include MoMA, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection, and the Government Art Collection, UK.
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Friday, 16 November 2012

Town is the Menu: Huntly Signature Menu launch – 1 December

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Huntly Signature Menu Launch

The new Huntly Signature Menu dishes are ready for you to taste at local eateries across town from

1st December 2012

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Huntly Signature Menu Launch Weekend

Simon Preston's town is the menu project culminates with the launch of the signature menu



Throughout the autumn of 2012 Simon Preston<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=53090140&msgid=657830&act=B4SY&c=479857&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graceonline.co.uk%2F> has swapped soup and cake for stories with local people to unearth Huntly's culinary identity with a view to create and adopt a Signature Menu for the town.

As a market town with its roots in agriculture, food production and consumption is an important part of our daily life.

On and from the weekend of the 1st December local eateries will join forces to launch the signature dishes on their menus, and a stall at the Farmers' Market will be selling street food samples to taste and the signature loaf.

Partners are: Huntly Hotel, Gordon Arms Hotel, Park Lane Cafe, The Larder, The Merry Kettle and many more.....further details to follow.


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Upcoming at Embassy | Urara Tsuchiya | you've been selected | 24 Nov - 16 Dec

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Urara Tsuchiya
you've been selected

Preview 24 Nov 6-9pm
Open 25 Nov - 16 Dec

Open Studios Fri 30 Nov | Sat 1 Dec | Fri 7 Dec | Sat 8 Dec | Fri 14 Dec | Sat 15 Dec
Featuring a series of performances staged over three weeks at Embassy Gallery

25 Nov Venus Fly Trap 12-6pm

2 Dec Stairway to Stardom (Insect fashion show with Anna Tanner and Mimei Thompson) Screening and Performance 7-9pm

9 Dec Christmas Toddlers and Tiaras Beauty Pageant (with Paul Kindersley) 7-9pm

16 Dec Closing event 7-9pm
Tsuchiya's practice explores the disconcertion that can be found between the personal and social worlds. Her work includes creating performances, videos, and live events. She often incorporates soft sculptures, costumes, masks, and home cooking. These function as props in an alternate environment that make space for different behavior. She works with the binaries of, for example, animal/human and adult/baby to strange and humorous effect. She is interested in challenging the viewer to negotiate his or her own personal and physical boundaries. For instance, sometimes the audience is not invited to participate; instead they find themselves part of an orchestrated scene. Tsuchiya blurs and removes the neutralizing, distanced aspect of making her work obviously 'art'.
Urara was born and raised in Japan. She completed her BA in fine art at Goldsmiths in 2007, and MFA at The Glasgow School of Art in 2012. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.
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Friday, 9 November 2012

Colquhoun & Hollingsworth - Two Ruins

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Steve Hollingsworth and Jim Colquhoun are Two Ruins, a collaborative investigation at the intersection of performance and sculpture. Hollingsworth and Colquhoun are both interested in those places where the boundaries between disciplines and ideas become blurred and malleable and praxis helps to further corrode these, often arbitrary, distinctions. In this performance the two artists are adrift amongst a scattering of neon tubing with proximity oscillators attached to their chests allowing them to interact with the neon not just physically but sonically. There is more than a hint of the homo-erotic as the they crawl infinitely slowly amongst the tubing, semi-naked and bending close to and straddling the light to bring forth a sonic wail that rises and falls with their movements. The deliberately ponderous movements and the overwhelming soundscape fuse to create a mesmerising mise-en-scéne, a wordless Beckettian shadow play that begins and ends in darkness.


Colquhoun & Hollingsworth
Two Ruins

Preview - 7pm to 9pm Friday 16 December 2012
Show open 2pm to 6pm Tuesday to Saturday
17th November to 8th December

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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

The Temporary Art Repair Shop at ESW

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Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop opens The Temporary Art Repair Shop

Monday 12th November - Friday 7th December


Artist, Tobias Sternberg will be running The Temporary Art Repair Shop at ESW from Monday 12th November. This is your chance to have an object you own converted into an artwork for free.


Anyone can come in and present Tobias with an object which is broken, faulty, disproportionate, ugly, unsuccessful, or in some way not suitable for its intended purpose. The visitor explains what is wrong with the object, and depending on the work load and the suitability of the object, Tobias can then choose to accept to remake it into an artwork. If so, it is then photographed, a brief account is written detailing its shortcomings, and the visitor receives a receipt as proof of having handed it in.
It is understood that the visitor is giving Tobias the right to do whatever he decides with the object until it is later handed back.

Tobias will use his skills as a sculptor to turn the received objects into sculptures. When, and if, finished, the object is again photographed, and then displayed in the Temporary Art Repair Shop until the closing day on Friday 7th December. There is no guarantee that every accepted object will be turned into art objects because of time restraints, lack of inspiration or whatever other reason.

On the last day all owners are invited to come by and collect their old objects now turned into new sculptures. The service is free. Just show up with your receipt, and if you feel like it, contribute your impressions of your newly acquired artwork.

The month long project is designed to explore new ideas around what it means to make public sculpture, who should pay for art and who can own it, what the worth and value of art is.


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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Peter Kennard will give the Annual SSHOP Photographer's Lecture

Internationally renowned photographer / Senior Lecturer Royal College of Art, Peter Kennard will give the Annual SSHOP Photographer's Lecture

Towards@earth
40 Years of Dispatches from an Unofficial war Artist

at:

Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Weston Link
National galleries of Scotland
The Mound
Edinburgh

At 6.00pm this Thursday 1st November

Please arrive promptly to avoid disappointment.

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Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Rhubaba's 3rd Birthday Party - this Friday night!

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Video works by PASCUAL SISTO will be exhibited throughout the space.

DISCO with music selected by various artists including Guerilla Girls, Torsten Lauschmann, Juliet Blightman, Martin Boyce, Jennifer Bailey, James Clarkson, Hannah James and many more!

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OUTPOST OPEN: FILM 2012

Screening of films selected by Stuart Croft from the Outpost Gallery membership.

A free film night open to all.

Thursday 15th November,
6.30-8pm

More info soon.


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