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curated by Iliyana Nedkova
exhibition guide
exhibition open daily 10am-7pm until Wed 30 Apr 08 preview and curator’s tours 10am-7pm Tue 16 Oct 07 curator’s tours selected Mondays 2-3pm or by appointment
Wave =�a long canvas of 22 flat screens in a row under the copper-clad dome A cinematic loop of 10 short artists’ films and videos cycles every 2 hours day and night in this running order: La Conchita N=Amour new commission Christina McPhee, USA Wrestle with emotions about climate change politics while following this disarming artist’s documentary about the mudslide-torn beach town of La Conchita, California. www.christinamcphee.net Untitled. Travel in a Box new commission Lala Rascic, Bosnia and Herzogovina/Croatia See and hear the artist re-enacting a story of a black slave boy who shipped himself to freedom in a box from Virginia to Philadelphia in 1849. See it on the Wave and hear it at the Welcome area. www.arcprojects.org Running and Falling Nils Meseke, Sweden A slapstick parable about the strength and resilience of human beings set against a dazzling nocturnal winter landscape. www.naom.se The Invisibles Alisa Andrasek, USA Swirling landscape-like forms where architecture, fashion and computational design meet to create what the artist calls a “pattern intelligence”. www.biothing.org Portobello Rising Michael Windle, UK Superb time-lapse photography condensing a day in the life of the Sun in a single continuous shot. Earth’s Weeping Fernando Arias, Colombia/UK A melancholic account of Earth’s rare geothermal activity featuring some 80 geysers from the Andes mountains in northern Chile. www.fernandoarias.org Shutter Graham Robertson, Germany/UK The story of a film roll winding its way from Aberdeen to Perth via Hanover which reveals unexpected urban scenes. 360 Degrees Dalziel + Scullion, UK A detailed study of our cyclical relationship with nature taking you on round trip of the Black Wood of Ranoch. www.dalzielscullion.com Sublime and Fragile Martin Price, UK Environmental science coupled with photography – an ongoing project to capture the mountains of the world with a 140 degrees panoramic camera. deStructures Prema Murthy, USA Historical time and demographics appear as a living, breathing body of 3D data rather than boring graphs in this map of New York. www.premamurthy.com
Threshold artspace is Scotland’s first dedicated gallery for digital public art, with nine unique spaces presenting a varied programme of artists’ films, videos, games, text, photography, performance, light, sound and software art.