Manchester…
September 11, 2009
Heather and I decided to go somewhere… it ended up being Manchester!
As it was pretty much unplanned and we had done almost no research we visited many empty gallery spaces as well as a few which were showing.
It was so unplanned I managed to forget to lift my camera, never normally go anywhere without it and its definitly the first time I left Edinburgh without it, who know you could miss it so much! The few photos in this post are from the gallery websites.
We both had an amazing time though, never stopped laughing and the sun was shining the whole time!
Shows we did see:
PICTURE THIS
Some amazing images.
CITY AS GYMNASIUM
I liked this show, nothing amazing but it was all worth seeing.
Both @ CUBE : Centre for the Urban Built Environment.
PRACTICAL TRUTHS
I enjoyed the collaboration between Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan ‘ The Reapers’ but other than that I was not massively impressed with this show at Castlefield Gallery
Next was, I think, both of our favourites
BIRDHEAD
Ji Weiyu and Song Tao
‘My Beautiful Zhang Jiang’
A beautiful film. A woman falls asleep and is carried throughout the city by a number of people. Easy carrying the woman until they are tired and then silently passing her on to the next available person who immediately stops in their path and takes their turn to carry the sleeping woman. She eventually wakes up on the lap of a teenage boy on a train. They exchange a few silent words.
This was at the Chinese Art Centre
Another Chinese artist was in residence, Yingmei Duan, her open studio is in November so she told us we should come back down. She gave us her card.
The empty galleries were Cornerhouse, Whitworth and the mysterious International 3. Mysterious because it was in the wrong place on the Art Update map and we were wandering around the one area for quite some time before we called and found out it was bout 100m up the road but no show was on at the time! The guy who worked there told us to come say hello anyway so we did, the space was very cool!
We went to the Temple, a pub in a converted public toilet. Its a gorgeous wee place. The sun came in through the windows and lit up the mould on the walls and the fresh flowers sitting in the old beer bottles! Great music from the jukebox.
We went to get something to eat before the train, but as we went to order we realised the time and had lost 40 minutes somewhere. No chilli and chocolate burger then! The train back to Edinburgh was the LONGEST journey ever. 3 hours 22 minutes seemed like a lifetime!!
Nat
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Saatchi Page
January 17, 2009
Feet First Event (Close with Buskers)
December 31, 2008
THURSDAY 1ST jANUARY
7PM – 9.30PM
FEET FIRST will use all of the High Street’s wonderful setting; it will embrace the buildings from the ramparts of the City Chambers to the Mercat Cross and even take in the City Council Revenue Offices along the way!
The street, the courtyards, the closes, the windows, and the sky above will be connected by an astounding collection of new and joyous performances, installations and interactive entertainment.
With 13 new works and over 120 artists / performers FEET FIRST is expected to attract up to 10,000 people and will be one of the largest celebrations of new Scottish work taking place in 2009.
For the event we are commissioning new work by theatre companies and artists from across the country. Building on the history of the outdoor entertainments (both modern and medieval) traditionally provided on The Royal Mile, FEET FIRST will weave music, theatre, song, lighting, sound, visual art and aerial choreography into a celebration of the start of the year and at the same time cast a positive gaze onto what the future holds in store for us.
But more than that, FEET FIRST is about stepping boldly through the doorway into the New Year – this is not about dipping a toe in – it’s about jumping in feet first!
Our group’s installation is called ‘Close with Buskers’
Hopefully see you there!!
Nat
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Photos of the box/info/audio
October 26, 2008
Photos of the box/information on the shoe with a recording of the ’sound’ of the shoe
Nat
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Collaborative Project (amazing)
October 17, 2008
Our next project is a collaborative one. We will be making site specific work for this event. Its called Feet First and will be happening on the 1st of January 2009 on the Royal Mile. We will be working in groups of around three, and each group will be making an artwork for a close on the Royal Mile.
There are six groups in total. We have a very generous budget and will be working around some really interesting artists. The theme is hope and it is important to be as bold as possible! It should be fantastic, everyones really excited about it.
Nat
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London Road
October 1, 2008
London Road
London Road provides examples of typical late 18th century period town buildings. The cottages, built for some of the more affluent tradesmen, were built right up to the pavement.
Location of building where shoes were found…
September 30, 2008
The shoes were found in this house (1 London Road, Dalkeith) they were found around 20 years ago.
This is the same house around 100 years ago. Not sure how old the house actually is…..
No replies to my email regarding the shoes so far. Hopefully tomorro.
Also not any luck with the museums.
I have another email to send now though, another woman at the nms
Nat
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