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
Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2021
Edinburgh Art Festival returns to the city s art spaces this summer with exciting new work (Isaac Julien, Emeka Ogboh, Sean Lynch), retrospectives (Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christine Borland, Karla Black) and the annual Platform showcase Article by Jamie Dunn | 03 Jun 2021
One of the joys of an Edinburgh summer (a typical one anyway) is escaping the hubbub of the Fringe to venture into the city’s many great galleries to soak up the wild and wonderful work at the annual Edinburgh Art Festival.
After the 2020 edition stalled thanks to COVID-19, this year s Edinburgh Art Festival will take place from 29 July to 29 August in a variety of visual art spaces across the city, with an additional online programme of events and digital presentations also planned. The 17th Edinburgh Art Festival will feature over 35 exhibitions and new commissions – some directly address the seismic changes brought about by this past year of pandemic, whi
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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.