Exhibition Opening
SATURDAY 10 MAY 3PM – 5PM
Join us to celebrate the launch of Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place.
Talk & Discussion
WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 6PM FREE
Globalisation, Gender and the Politics of Art as Labour
Angela Dimitrakaki, newly appointed Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Edinburgh, presents her research in progress concerning how femininity and travelling in the age of global capital impact on the production of art.
Reading Group
THURSDAY 29 MAY 6PM FREE
Our informal reading group continues with a text selected by Nicky Bird: Safety in Numbness: Some Remarks on the problems of 'Late Photography', by David Campany, in Where is the Photograph? Published by Photoforum and Photoworks, 2003. For more information please contact us on 0131 622 6200.
Evening Discussion: Photography & Visual Ethnography
WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 6PM – 8PM FREE
The latest in a series of events which illuminate the diverse roles which photography plays in contemporary culture and society. This open discussion forum will examine artists’ interest in the photographic image as a layered repository of information and meaning. Refreshments will be served.
Processes & Practice
SATURDAY 28 JUNE 3PM – 5PM FREE
An afternoon of short presentations and open discussion focusing on Nicky Bird and Stills resident Rhona Warwick’s working processes. Refreshments will be served.
The Magic Lantern at Stills £3/£1.50
An independent film night showcasing innovative new short films. www.themagiclantern.org
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 7.30PM
A retrospective of the work of acclaimed Scottish animator, Norman McLaren. Born in Stirling in 1914, William Norman McLaren went on to become one of the most critically successful filmmakers of all time. Presented in partnership with The Drouth magazine.
WEDNESDAY 2 JULY 7.30PM
The Magic Lantern present a special programme of short films selected in response to the themes of memory and history explored in Beneath the Surface/ Hidden Place.
Experimental Music at Stills
MONDAY 7 JULY 2008 7PM
Suggested donation £4
Giant Tank presents an evening of real OUT sounds:
OLIDE AWKWARDSTRA= crew of free(k)/OUT Brightonian brothers with links to the Chocolate Monk family. Expect nauseating tape crud, wordless vocal jabber and hamfisted improv for strained reeds and percussives.
www.myspace.com/bolideawkwardstra
WOUNDED KNEE= multi-mouthed outsider folk vocalist and his sparse junk clunk get looped ad infinitum.
www.myspace.com/woundedknee
USURPER= siamese-minded dead instrument reanimators make free-noise ineptitude in miniature.
www.myspace.com/usurper
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