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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 week, Nigerian

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Submitting. Nigerian-born artist Emeka Ogboh These have been edited, programmed and sequenced to produce what is described as “a complex and constantly shifting soundscape”. The installation will see the individual renditions of the song played, in concert, from seven speakers at the Burns Monument, while a recording in Scottish Gaelic will also be played. The Song Of The Union artwork was inspired by MEPs singing Auld Lang Syne in farewell to the UK as it departed the EU in January 2020. The idea of singing the song in Brussels came from German MEP Terry Reintke, who was part of an EU-UK Friendship Group in the European Parliament.

Art installation uses Auld Lang Syne to encourage friendship post-Brexit

A Brexit inspired art installation which plays Auld Lang Syne in 28 languages is being installed in Scotland’s capital. A choir of recorded voices, which represent the different member states of the European Union, feature in the constantly changing Sound Of The Union arrangement – which is described as being an “artwork about friendship” The sound installation is the work of Nigerian-born artist Emeka Ogboh, and it is being set up at the foot of Calton Hill as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, which opens on Thursday. Artist Emeka Ogboh created the Sound Of The Union piece (University of Edinburgh/PA)

Brexit-inspired Auld Lang Syne artwork to open in Scotland's capital