Claudia Zeiske, Director of Deveron Projects for the last 25 years, will join the MLitt Film, Visual Culture and Arts Management to discuss the finer details of organising and delivering socially-engaged art projects and events in the Aberdeenshire town of Huntly. The session will run from 1515-1645 on Wednesday 10 February, on Teams. Access the … Continue reading
Following the success of the launch of our new public engagement programme: VIEW, the George Washington Wilson Centre and the Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is pleased to announce its inaugural event this week. “Out of this World” is a participatory performance organized by Huntly-based artist Norma D. Hunter, … Continue reading
Once upon a time, Cambridge English Dictionary defined an artist as someone who creates things “with skill and imagination”. In the same dictionary a missionary is described as “A person who has been sent to a foreign country to teach their religion to the people who live there”. Both the artist and the missionary have … Continue reading
Stepping from the train, I saw the petite houses of Huntly nestled within the beautiful, green countryside of Aberdeenshire. Adventuring further into the town, I discovered, what I later defined as, an array of “hidden faces” in “beautiful places”, including the dog on the wall in No. 11 Café, the clock’s face observing the square … Continue reading
Upon learning that myself and three other MLitt students were to collaborate with Deveron Projects in Huntly, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I hadn’t been back to Huntly in 6 years (despite my parents only living 25 minutes away) and my limited awareness of the group came from hazy memories of school art projects. However, … Continue reading
The sound of waves struggling against the air, the earth and each other is very loud. Listening to it for nearly two hours triggered the feelings of annoyance, awareness, and astonishment: I wanted the noise to stop at once. Acknowledging the ocean’s existence, I, impressed, realised that the waves never stop hitting the shore. The … Continue reading
Tuesday, 26 September 2017 was one of the foggiest days I’ve seen in Aberdeen—it was the first time I ever had to drive with my fog lights on. It was on this murky, grey, dreary autumnal Aberdeen day that my Performance Art class was scheduled to participate in a slow walk on Aberdeen Beach with … Continue reading
On Wednesday 8th March, students in Dr. Amy Bryzgel’s Postmodern Art class took a field trip to visit several of Aberdeen’s visual arts spaces, including Seventeen on Belmont Street. The current exhibition in the upstairs gallery is Black Swan White Elephant, by North East-based artist Caroline Inckle. Inckle’s exhibition takes the form of a giant … Continue reading
Maja Bekan’s exhibition 23 Assemblies at the Zamek Ujazdowski – Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw curated by Anna Ptak invites its visitors to take part in the process of the gallery guards becoming performance artists. Bekan was an artist in residence at the CCA and the exhibition is the result of her … Continue reading
Perform. Play. Art. Friday, 18 March 2016, 10AM-5PM. Craig Suite, 7th Floor, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
A one-day event at the University of Aberdeen involving live performances, installations, participatory performance, conversations and talks using the Aberdeen University campus and the Sir Duncan Rice Library as its canvas. Continue reading
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