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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> 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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Embassy is supported by Creative Scotland

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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