MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATIONS
This year we are excited to be presenting a number of artists’ installations in other venues, empty shops and disused buildings around the town of Hawick. There will be impromptu screenings in strange places, including our own mini-cinema and a horse trailer! The trailer will be parked right outside Heart of Hawick, containing a show specially curated by artist Pat Law. A selection of short works by contemporary sound artists will also be played, as premonitions, prior to the main auditorium screenings at Tower Mill, curated by Borders based sound artist James Wyness. Work produced by our three 2011 Alchemy artists in residence – Emma Osbourn, Rocio von Jungenfeld and Alice Betts will also be appearing in this strand. Best of all, these art happenings are free!
Please download the Festival Supplement for the latest details and venue information.
The schedule of installations is being constantly updated as the projects evolve. Please check this page regularly, or contact us for an up to date schedule. The confirmed projects are listed below:
Auditory Scenes
Created by: James Wyness and others
Running time: 00:05:00 (looped)
Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
A selection of short works by contemporary sound artists will be played, as premonitions, prior to the main auditorium screenings at Tower Mill. Each sound piece will engage with landscape and the four elements – fire, earth, air and water. Curated by Borders based sound artist James Wyness. Artists include Alyssa Moxley, Catherine Clover, Etienne Noiseau, Fergus Kelly, Josh Goldman, Lisa Whistlecroft, Michael Farley, Jez Riley French, Micahel Gallagher, Thanos Chrysakis and Sarah Boothroyd.
Biography:
James Wyness is a Scottish Borders based sound artist whose ongoing work and research ranges from sound installation, composition and performance to studio and field recording projects. He is currently working on the development three long term projects, details of which can be found on his website www.wyness.org.
Artist's website: http://www.wyness.org
Venue: Tower Mill
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
Beneath and Beyond: Seismic Sounds
Created by: Stephen Hurrel
Running time: 24:00:00 (looped)
Year: 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Tectonic shifts and on-going movements beneath the Earth’s surface are the source for generating this live audio and visual installation. Specially developed software enables a computer to tap into 100 seismic monitoring stations around the world via the Internet: seismic vibrations are continually gathered in the form of raw data; which are then made audible to the human ear and visible in the form of auto-generating waveforms. Beneath and Beyond provides a direct link to experience unseen and unheard natural forces that exist beneath our feet, and a new space to reflect on our relationship with the Earth.
Biography:
My practice involves engaging with various contexts and producing both temporary and permanent site-specific installations. I studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art and work across a range of media and materials. My work explores relationships between people and place, often focusing on dialogues between, and feedback systems within, Nature and technology. Exhibited widely and undertaken several residencies, including a twelve-month SAC Australian Residency. Visiting artist and lecturer at institutions in UK and abroad including Glasgow School of Art and Valand School of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden, where I was Course Leader of ‘ MA Context and Media’ for three years.
Artist's website: http://www.hurrelvisualarts.com
Venue: Tower Mill - upstairs room 206, second floor
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
Deathbed
Created by: Sigurdur Gudjónsson
Running time: 00:22:26 (looped)
Year: 2006
Country: Iceland
Synopsis:
In Death Bed a hooded main character explores a decayed house in the wasteland. The figures he encounters appear faceless - it is left open as to whether they are real figures or just imaginations and memories of the protagonist. In the end the video leaves one only with a vague notion of a mysterious situation in a post-apocalyptic scene, exposed to the insanity of a lonely settler.
Biography:
The Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson (*1975 in Reykjavík, Iceland) works mainly with video and photography for his installations. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, an influence that also appears in his works which link the mythic landscapes of his homeland Iceland with the dark atmosphere of Viennese Actionism. Sigurdur Gudjonsson's films are captivating in their unsettled ambiguity and eeriness. While his films avoid a linear narrative structure, sound, image, and editing are used as compositional means. The conjunction of concrete elements and grotesque images produces a interaction that evokes in the viewer a feeling of alienation, meaninglessness, and absurdity, and also generates a powerful physical and emotional debt.
Artist's website: http://www.sigurdurgudjonsson.net
Venue: Millers Town and Country Store - through the shop to the warehouse out back
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
Highland River
Created by: Norman Shaw
Running time: 00:10:00 (looped)
Year: 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
'systole and disatole, the river flows...' (Neil M Gunn, HIghland River) Surface of a Highland river. Soundtrack of remixed Gaelic psalm singing.
Biography:
Born in 1970, grew up in the Highlands.
MA (hons) in Fine Art, University of Edinburgh (1993)
MPhil in Art History, Edinburgh College of Art (1994)
MFA in painting, Edinburgh College of Art (1996).
PhD in Fine Art, University of Dundee (2004)
Taught Art History and Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh, before lecturing at the University of Dundee.
Exhibits widely in group and solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Outputs include drawing and painting, printmaking, writing, sound, video.
Exhibitions include ‘Window to the West’ (City Art Centre, 2010), ‘Prints of Darkness’ (Edinburgh Printmakers, 2010 (touring)), ‘Highland’ (RSA, 2007), ‘The Great Book of Gaelic’ (An Lanntair, Stornoway, 2002 (touring)), ‘Calanais’ (An Lanntair,1996 (touring)).
Venue: Borders Textile Towerhouse
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
Like Fish in Sand
Created by: Rocio Jungenfeld in collaboration with Lucas Kao
Running time: 00:10:00 (looped)
Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
The
work
“Like
Fish
in
Sand”
is
an
audiovisual
experiment
that
uses
natural
elements
such
as
water,
sand
and
paper
as
projection
screens
and
reflection
surfaces.
A
fish‐tank
and
a
sandpit
are
the
main
projection
surfaces,
and
paper
and
walls
are
secondary
projection
screens.
A
fish‐ rod
and
a
rake
are
part
of
the
installation
and
visitors
are
welcomed
to
use
them
to
interact
with
the
surfaces
and
intervene
on
the
piece.
Visitors
can
draw
on
the
sand
and
touch
the
water
surface.
The
combination
of
natural
materials,
manufactured
elements
and
digital
projections
endeavour
to
bring
the
alchemical
experience
of
landscape
and
its
elements
into
the
confined
space
of
the
gallery.
The
video
projection
consists
of
close‐up
moving
images
of
natural
elements
and
their
interaction
with
the
skin.
These
images
will
be
projected
onto
the
liquid
and
materials
of
the
installation,
and
thereby
will
project
the
elements
back
to
their
media,
back
to
their
essence;
skin,
hair,
eyes,
hands,
feet
intervene
on
and
blend
with
nature.
Dew drops are falling from the sky, blue clouds are flowing with the stream, skin and hair submerge into the elements, sand crackles under the wood, an eye meets the pebbles under water, the skin disappears in favour of wax. The series of moving images function as magnifying glasses, and are abstract metaphors of the relationship between audiovisual media and nature.
Biography:
Rocio von Jungenfeld is an Edinburgh based mixed media artist. See her project websites - Rocio Jungenfeld, Weaving the City and Mapping and Dissecting Space.
Lucas Kao is a Taiwanese screenwriter and Director, living in Edinburgh. See vimeo.com/cplka for examples of his work.
Artist's website: http://www.rociojungenfeld.eu
Venue: Old Bakery (Easystorage) Oliver Crescent
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
The Glass Essay
Created by: Joanna Kane
Running time: 00:06:45 (looped)
Year: 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Video piece inspired by the narrative poem by Canadian poet Anne Carson. A recurrent motif of the poem is the moor, both as psychic and physical space, referencing Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' .The flat featureless moor stretching for miles, the expanses of air and earth, seem to become an index of time itself, the subject being time passing over emptiness.Time lapse video footage was taken over 4 days on Rannoch Moor in the north of Scotland, reflecting the real time of the poem, from a fixed camera position.
Biography:
Joanna Kane is a visual artist based in Edinburgh who works with photography, still and moving image, and new media. Her practice is centred on stills photography, incorporating elements of experimentation within digital media, film and video, and other media. She also has interests in still and time-based media in conjunction with performance, installation, theatre, poetry and literature
Artist's website: http://www.joannakane.co.uk
Venue: The Kiosk (Crown Buildings) 20-22 High Street
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
The Horsebox
Created by: Pat Law and others
Running time: 00:10:00 (looped)
Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
The Horsebox is a stripped out, re-fitted, moving space for showing artists’ projects anywhere that can be driven to. Artist Pat Law and her architect husband, Andy created the Horsebox as an offshoot to Heriot Toun Studio which they run in Heriot in the Scottish Borders. Pat is a visual artist working mainly in collaboration with artists of different disciplines; her work is prompted by observation of the landscape encountered through voyages or travel and the collaboration shown at Alchemy will encompass these elements.
Biography:
Pat Law is a visual artist working mainly in paint and lens based image. Her work is prompted by observation of the landscape encountered through voyages or travel, often collaborating with artists of different disciplines. She lives and works in the Scottish Borders when not afloat on her Loch Fyne Skiff Kirsty.
Artist's website: http://www.heriot-toun.co.uk/studiolog/
Venue: Civic Space - outside Heart of Hawick - Tower Mill
Friday 21st October 10 am to 6pm
Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm
Sunday 23rd October 10am to 6pm
Some installations may run for longer, please check with us for details.
Tickets: Free entry
See the Festival Supplement for full information and venue details
