Glasgow Saturday night in the Limelight

Limelight Saturday night started!
here are some pictures of the installation in Glasgow, next week end, Newcastle.

Limelight: Saturday night in Glasgow

Come and be in the limelight this Friday and Saturday night!

We are bringing back Limelight to Glasgow as part of Limelight: Saturday night, a tour of the piece in 10 different cities internationally in 2010, 2011.

Limelight: Saturday night has been chosen to form part of a series of works commissioned to mark the launch of ARTISPHERE, a new cultural centre in Arlington,Virginia. Over the next 18 months we will take Limelight: Saturday night to visit ten cities, to install and record a selection of Saturday nights from streets around the world.

The edited film of the first 5 cities will be premiered on 10.10.10 at the ARTISPHERE and then intermittently on the main video wall in the cultural centre throughout 2010/11, with the additional five hours added throughout 2011.

Looking forward to see you there, singing, dancing, … or just watching.

Limelight: Saturday night will be in Glasgow form Friday 27th August as soon as the street lights come on and again on Saturday night in Candleriggs.

The next cities for 2010 are:
Newcastle, September 3rd and 4th
Inverness, September 10th and 11th
Bruxelles, October 2nd
London, October 4th 5th and 6th
Arlington, VA, October 8th, 9th and 10th

4 dimensional mapping

The publication from our experimental workshop on Fogo Island last year has arrived.
The work was developed with Erika Irmler (who also designed the publication) and was part of the Production Program of the Fogo Island Arts Corporation.


Here is a wee preview:

Walking along the curb

Yesterday, early for a meeting, we spent 20 minutes spotting out people walking along the curb instead of in the "designated" walking area.
An unconscious behaviour left over from childhood or a more comfortable surface to walk on, or a combination of both?










Newcastle University Campus

Placement

This month we have the pleasure of working with Alix Fournier.
Alix is a french architecture student who will take part in the different projects we're developing in July, mostly the Promenade in Bristol and the development of Limelight: saturday night for Artisphere, Arlington, VA.

with the neighbour's cat during a regular visit

Wild life

In January 1800, a strange creature was trapped by hunters in the woods near Aveyron in southern France. On closer examination, the creature turned out to be a boy, about 12 years old and naked apart from the tattered remains of a shirt. His body was covered in scars, with one large and particularly vicious looking one on his neck which seemed to indicate an attempt to cut his throat. The boy was in a shocking condition and seemed to be both deaf and mute. At first the authorities were perplexed about what to do with him, but then people began to wonder if this was an opportunity to discover more about ourselves. If this boy had grown up wild, might it be possible to study him and discover whether it is nature or nurture that makes us human?



Another exciting collaboration starting with Theatre Director Nick Bone on this new play by Pamela Carter.
Wild life will be produced in February 2011 and will tour throughout Scotland.

Home/Away - art in social spaces

This week we received our copies of Home/Away - Art in social spaces. This book gathers together a series of projects produced as part of Idensitat 4 in the towns and villages surrounding Barcelona. In addition to the documentation of the production and realisation of these projects, this book includes a series of dialogues from artists, educators, cultural managers and experts. Our project, Histories i llocs forms part of this series.