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A TALK WITH RAY LUCAS Date :Saturday 18th June | Venue:
The Noose & Monkey, 31-35 Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen Ray Lucas' walk/workshop ends with a talk at the Noose & Monkey. |
A WALK WITH STEWART HOME Date: Tuesday 21st June | Venue:
PEACOCK Visual Arts Stewart Home - writer, artist, film-maker, prankster and occultist - will lead a walk through the harbour to Fittie featuring audio recordings from Stewart Home’s Cambridge Junction Torkradio project. Home was born in London in 1962 and the bulk of his novels use the English capital as their setting. His rare one person gallery shows have to date been restricted to London: ‘Humanity In Ruins’ at Central Space in 1988, ‘Vermeer II’ at workfortheeyetodo in 1996, and earlier this year ‘Becoming (M)other’ at T1&2 Artspace (a collaborative installation with Chris Dorley Brown). |
A TALK WITH STEWART HOME Date: Tuesday 21st June|
Venue: Fittie Bar, 18 Wellington Street, Aberdeen Stewart Home's walk will be followed by a talk at the Fittie bar.
This will focus in particular on his novel ’69 Things to do
with a Dead Princess’ (Canongate 2002), which has been described
as the strangest work of fiction to be set in and around Aberdeen. |
A SITUATIONIST DRIFT WITH JIM COLQUHOUN Date: Wednesday 22nd June| Venue:
PEACOCK Visual Arts PEACOCK Visual Arts The Situationist Drift is a technique for defining the unconscious zones of a city. A collective undertaking, that attempts to liberate the participants from bourgeois society, or ‘a technique of transient passages through varied ambiances’. Participants will be encouraged to respond instinctively when striking a passage through the city. |
PREMIERE OF NEW WORK FROM 'ABERDEEN' BY BILL THOMPSON Date: Friday 24th June| Venue:
TBC This soundwalk piece was recorded during one long continuous exploration of Aberdeen. In hearing these sounds 'out of context', listeners are encouraged to 'hear' to them as though for the first time. The performance will conclude with an after-project festivity. |
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