VIEW Inaugural Event (10th November)—Celebrating Women’s Contributions since Universal Suffrage

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 →

A commemoration: Raúl Ruiz died on this day in 2011

A short sequel to my last post, this time to commemorate Prof. Raúl Ruiz’s death 7 years ago today. Below we have new trailers for The Wandering Soap Opera, a film he shot in 1990 which is finally being released in Chilean cinemas on 6th September, and for his widow Valeria Sarmiento’s Mysteries of Lisbon prequel, … Continue reading →

New programme to celebrate the best of north-east’s creative talent

A new public engagement programme that will showcase the best of the north-east’s creative talent has been launched today at the University of Aberdeen. The VIEW Visual Arts and Culture Programme will be based at the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture, in the University’s School of Language and Literature. Developed by Dr Amy … Continue reading →

A tribute and an invocation: Raúl Ruiz was #botd in 1941

The great, sadly missed filmmaker Raúl Ruiz was born 77 years ago today. Since his death in 2011, he has unfortunately been releasing fewer and fewer feature films. The most recent was The Wandering Soap Opera which finally premiered at Locarno last August to the customary mix of elation and puzzlement, before dipping from sight. As … Continue reading →

Picturing Science reading group on Paul Klee

The reading group Picturing Science is back on Tuesday, October 10th at 1pm in New King’s 15. We shall be discussing Paul Klee “On Modern Art”, an intriguing reading suggested by Marc Higgin (School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen) and Anne Douglas (Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University). Please click on the link … Continue reading →

Director’s Cut- Mark Cousins: Telling the Story of Film

                    Next Wednesday (March 1st) the second Director’s Cut event of 2017 will be taking place in the King’s College Conference Centre at 6:00 PM. We are thrilled to have the filmmaker, critic and curator Mark Cousins visiting, where he will discuss his extraordinary career as one of … Continue reading →

Director’s Cut: The 25th Anniversary of Candyman with filmmaker Bernard Rose

                       Join us for a very special Director’s Cut with Bernard Rose, director of influential horror classic Candyman, to celebrate the cult film’s 25th anniversary. Bernard will discuss with the BBC’s Fiona Stalker, his career in film making as a writer and director which began … Continue reading →

Art, an App and an Ale

On Thursday, September 3, 2015, Peacock Visual Arts’ James Vass will be “live printing” a work by the artistic duo Hell Yeah (Katie Guthrie & Mike Hughes) at BrewDog pub in Aberdeen; the first people through the doors, at 7PM, get a free print. As an art historian who researches performance art, I love the … Continue reading →

Laibach in North Korea

The Slovenia avant-garde, industrial, experimental music group Laibach became the first foreign rock band to play a gig in North Korea yesterday, August 19, 2015. Please see my article on The Conversation about the significant of them taking the stage there. Continue reading →