Burning Bush
- Doing Time
Doing Time is a
series of artists presentations and 15 new commissions, culminating in
a 3 day city-wide event May 10/11/12 in Dundee at sites including DCA,
Cooper Gallery and Generator. This event presents performative and
media art, alongside a film programme, seminars and a city wide debate
on the future of work, leisure and time.
Ranging from virtual
skiving to new applications for management theory Burning Bush artists
demonstrate a new take on modern living, work and leisure. Using
extreme duration, experimental research techniques and performance,
newly commissioned artwork will be premiered over the weekend.
Cyber-skiving accounts for 30 - 40% of lost worker productivity
(Businessweek.com). Luci Eyers will host a website which invites
employees to submit a selection of their favourite sites found
whilst
Cyber Skiving
during work hours. Fanclubbers will wreak havoc in Dundee with their
notorious shopping interventions. Lucy Kimbell investigates what the
Dundee publics' ideal job would be in Jobs for the Future..
Similar to the LED counters in dole offices, David Davies has made a
device that displays the number of people waiting on death row at any
one time in Row 02. Roddy Hunter artist in residence, is
making a psychogeographical study of a route between Perth Road and
Dundee Law, titled Relief from Law, what can and cannot can be
done in public spaces. New York Artist, Coco Fusco will be
raising issues around continual surveillance in the workplace in
relation to low payed work, while Otiose will set up an alternative
leisure centre. The remarkable durational performance experiments
(clocking on every hour for a year- day and night) of Teching Hsieh
meets Monica Ross' homage to Walter Benjamins Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction as she writes it out by hand in the
premises of National Cash Registers, one of the earlier homes of
automation technologies. The film screenings include a presentation of
work shown at the Werkleitz Bienanalle by Peter Zorn and The Scottish
Premier of The Target Shoots First by Chris Wilcha, a
remarkable diary/documentary exploration of the sometimes brutal inner
workings of Columbia Music and corporate culture as a whole.
Burning Bush aims for the 'audience' to relate to the work in more
than a default consumer mode. We ask the Question are you doing
your work as a human being ?
For further information please contact Lisa Stewart on 01382 348061
or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EMARE -
April - May 2002.
EMARE, European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (http://www.werkleitz.de/emare) is a network of arts organizations offering a two month residency programme open to artists working in time-based art: film; video; performance & new media. This is the 6th year of the exchange programme which so far has enabled 25 artists from Holland, Hungary, Germany, Finland, Scotland & England to make new works in the context of cultural exchange. The purpose of the programme is to enable collaboration and closer relations between European artists and media organisations.
This year's residents at VRC are Ralf De Molle and Christiane Delbrugge.
Ralf and Christiane intend to use the residency to develop "How do you feel?" http://www.howdoyoufeel.de/today.htm for wap mobilephones. They will also take part in the Burning Bush 2 Festival with How do you feel? in Centrespace opening May 10.
The idea of "How do you feel?" originates in an art in public space proposal for a prefab-building with 360 units in Marzahn, Berlin (Germany). Each appartment was to be equipped with a "feeler", a box with two buttons installed beside the intercom. The left button could be clicked to express a bad mood, the right one to express a good mood. The "feeler" is an interface which communicates the feelings of the inhabitants to the public.
When the "feeler" is operated the connected computer offsets every input against the others. The result is transferred to the entrance hall and to the south facade, where two big icons indicate the mood of the house. If the majority feels lousy the left element is lit whereas the right one shines as soon as over 50 percent feel fine.
Why? A house does
not only consist of concrete, elevators, caretakers, cables and tubs
but also of the whole of its inhabitants. You feel physically
surrounded by other beings. Their moods impact on yours. This
situation is not limited to a singular building in the outskirts of
Berlin. Since feelings are a universal phenomenon, we thought it worth
adapting the "feeler" to the WorldWideWeb.
With support form,
Scottish Arts Council, TVI, University of Dundee, Goethe Institute
,Dundee City Council
apologies for any
cross postings
