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Talbot Rice Gallery presents 'Emeka Ogboh: Song of the Union in Edinburgh'


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 Edinburgh’s 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 UK’s 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 Syne”—a song which has come to represent solidarity, friendship and open doors. The following ....

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Edinburgh Art Festival reboots with shows inspired by impact of Black Lives Matter, Covid and the climate crisis


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Isaac Julien’s film installation recalling the life of Douglass, a freed slave and freedom fighter who spent two years living in Edinburgh in the 1840s while he was in the UK campaigning against slavery, will be shown at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Lessons of the Hour, which was filmed at sites across Edinburgh, other locations in Scotland and London, and Douglass’s former home in Washington, will remain on display from the festival’s launch in July until Black History Month in October.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, in Newhaven, will be playing host to an exhibition by Sean Lynch which will turn the spotlight on the city’s public monuments and sculptures, the future of which is being reviewed by the council in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. ....

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