AN online discussion between artists Deniz Tortum and Amy Balkin tackles how the ideas of colonial capture, crowdsourcing, collecting and computationalism inform explorations into preservation and the future. They will walk the participants into the significant role of technology and archiving at the face of climate change. Tortum, a Turkish…
Amy Balkin collects artifacts of sea-level rise, erosion, and glacial melting. Anyone anywhere in the world can mail in a contribution, as long as it weighs half a pound or less.
Talbot Rice Gallery presents Emeka Ogboh: Song of the Union in Edinburgh
Emeka Ogboh, Song of the Union, 2021. 7-channel sound installation, duration infinite. Burns Monument, Edinburgh. Courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh. Photo: Sally Jubb.
EDINBURGH
.-Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival announced that a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Nigeria) was unveiled at Edinburghs Burns Monument. The new public artwork, entitled Song of the Union, co-commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival, is a response to the ongoing theatre surrounding the UKs departure from the European Union.
On January 29, 2020, as the United Kingdom departed the European Union and as a final gesture of farewell, Members of the European Parliament took to their feet in Brussels, held hands and sang Robert Burns Auld Lang Synea song which has come to represent solidarity, friendship and open doors. The following week, Nigerian
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