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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Researchers Create The Whitest White Paint
Purdue University engineers have created the whitest paint yet. Coating buildings with this paint may one day cool them off enough to reduce the need for air conditioning, the researchers say.
The researchers believe that this white may be the closest equivalent of the blackest black, “Vantablack,” which absorbs up to 99.9% of visible light. This was the controversial pigment that artist Anish Kapoor exclusively copyrighted in 2016. The new whitest paint formulation reflects up to 98.1% of sunlight – compared with the 95.5% of sunlight reflected by the researchers’ previous ultra-white paint – and sends infrared heat away from a surface at the same time.