SURREALIST DEAMBULATION

Date: Friday 17th June | Venue: PEACOCK Visual Arts
Time: 2pm
Artist: Jim Colquhoun

A walk with Jim Colquhoun starting at Peacock Visual Arts. The Surrealists described their walking experiments as ‘automatic writing in real space’ or ‘an exploration between waking life and dream life’. The walks were essentially aimless wanderings in ‘empty’ territory. In the course of this walk we will head deliberately towards the margins of the city and out into the countryside.

SALVATION ARMY

Date: Saturday 18th June | Venue: The Salvation Army Citadel, 26 Castle Street, Aberdeen
Time: 10am - 2pm

A tour with Mrs. Margaret Ross, Salvation Army Director for Social Work, and viewing of the artist’s campsite. Tea and coffee provided by the Salvation Army.

MCKAYS OF QUEEN STREET

Date: Wednesday 15th June - Friday 24th June| Venue: McKays, 29-31 Queen Street, Aberdeen
Time: 9am - 5.30pm Mon-Fri, 9am - 7pm Thu, 11am - 5.30pm Sun

An installation of films on walking and exploration at this most traditional of outdoor equipment purveyors.
Stewart Home. Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Oedipus Complex, 41 min
This film was made in Australia while Home was artist-in-residence at Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in May 2004. In the film avant-garde techniques and the avant-garde obsession with death interweave with reflections on the life and death of his mother Julia Callan-Thompson. This is simultaneously an expression of love and loss and an attempt to draw out the ways in which the avant-garde Lettrist cinema of the early fifties in France was commercialised in the later work of Godard, Marker and Resnais.
Chris Petit/Ian Sinclair. The Cardinal and the Corpse (1992),
The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000)
Three collaborations between director Chris Petit and psychogeographer, poet and novelist Iain Sinclair about marginalized cultural figures, produced by Illuminations Films for Channel Four.
Bill Thompson, ‘aberdeen’, audio installation, 8 hours
This soundwalk piece was recorded during one long continuous exploration of Aberdeen. Throughout our day we filter out the sounds around us in order to focus on what we need to do. As a result, we miss the beauty of our ambient surroundings. Due to the sheer length of the piece, it is hoped that listeners will 'get lost' within the work and not be able to predict when or where they are within the soundwalk.
Tom Weir. Weir’s Way, approx. 20 min. each
Four episodes of the TV-series featuring Scotland’s pioneering psychogeographer as he explores Glen Affric, Wester Ross, Loch Torridon and the coastline of Applecross.

A NOTATIONAL WALK WITH RAY LUCAS

Date :Saturday 18th June| Venue: PEACOCK Visual Arts
Time: 2pm

A walk/workshop with Ray Lucas starting at Peacock visual arts. Ray Lucas is an anthropologist with a background in architecture. This workshop looks at how we represent movement with inscription. What aspects of a movement do we choose to record? The route, the actual movements of the legs, the encounters made along the way? By making marks, we can make the experience of the city available to our creative and descriptive processes. The workshop begins with a short talk followed by a walking and sketching exercise. In a discussion at the end observations can be shared and reconstructions attempted.