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exhibition open daily 10am-7pm until Wed 30 Apr 08 preview and curator’s tours 10am-7pm Tue 16 Oct 07 curator’s tours selected Mondays 2-3pm or by appointment
Wave =�a long canvas of 22 flat screens in a row under the copper-clad dome A cinematic loop of 10 short artists’ films and videos cycles every 2 hours day and night in this running order: La Conchita N=Amour new commission Christina McPhee, USA Wrestle with emotions about climate change politics while following this disarming artist’s documentary about the mudslide-torn beach town of La Conchita, California. www.christinamcphee.net Untitled. Travel in a Box new commission Lala Rascic, Bosnia and Herzogovina/Croatia See and hear the artist re-enacting a story of a black slave boy who shipped himself to freedom in a box from Virginia to Philadelphia in 1849. See it on the Wave and hear it at the Welcome area. www.arcprojects.org Running and Falling Nils Meseke, Sweden A slapstick parable about the strength and resilience of human beings set against a dazzling nocturnal winter landscape. www.naom.se The Invisibles Alisa Andrasek, USA Swirling landscape-like forms where architecture, fashion and computational design meet to create what the artist calls a “pattern intelligence”. www.biothing.org Portobello Rising Michael Windle, UK Superb time-lapse photography condensing a day in the life of the Sun in a single continuous shot. Earth’s Weeping Fernando Arias, Colombia/UK A melancholic account of Earth’s rare geothermal activity featuring some 80 geysers from the Andes mountains in northern Chile. www.fernandoarias.org Shutter Graham Robertson, Germany/UK The story of a film roll winding its way from Aberdeen to Perth via Hanover which reveals unexpected urban scenes. 360 Degrees Dalziel + Scullion, UK A detailed study of our cyclical relationship with nature taking you on round trip of the Black Wood of Ranoch. www.dalzielscullion.com Sublime and Fragile Martin Price, UK Environmental science coupled with photography – an ongoing project to capture the mountains of the world with a 140 degrees panoramic camera. deStructures Prema Murthy, USA Historical time and demographics appear as a living, breathing body of 3D data rather than boring graphs in this map of New York. www.premamurthy.com
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Stage =�a playground for live art with larger-than-life projections, a camera and a screen left of the wave Bimonthly changeover of artists’ films set as live Internet transmissions playing on the Threshold Stage screen and wall: Franca! new commission Silvana Macedo, Brazil Practice whalespotting with this affectionate artist’s video compiled from live Internet transmissions from the southern coast of Brazil – winter home to the endangered right whale species. www.silvanamacedo.com Weather Gauge Thomson & Craighead, UK A sense of landscape in the making with up-to-the minute data harvested from weather stations of 150 world cities including Perth, UK. www.thompson-craighead.net Unreal Landscapes Prema Murthy, USA Drift away with these cinematic landscapes extracted from the popular video game Unreal Tournament.
www.premamurthy.net Eurogame Mare Tralla, Estonia/UK Play this humourous jigsaw puzzle game to test your knowledge of the new European landscape. Just use the gamepad to navigate your way on the Stage wall. Make sure you complete the second, advanced level. www.tralla.net
Welcome = interactive soundscape doorway of 16 sensors and 8 speakers Bimonthly changeover of artists’ field recordings, cinematic voiceovers and soundscapes: Untitled. Travel in a Boxnew commission Lala Rascic, Bosnia and Herzogovina/Croatia The voiceovers accompanying the artist’s film under the same title playing at Threhsold Wave. Please see overleaf for details. www.arcprojects.org Sparkles curated by Andy Shearer, UK Moments of our shared audio heritage come alive peppered with suprising snippets of rare festive tunes. Near Hear 2 Su Grierson, UK + Lyrebird Redux Sean Williams & Nick Janaway, et al UK A medley of evocative soundscapes recorded by the artists while exploring the urban and rural identity of Perthshire. www.sugrierson.com + www.sbkw.net
Flush = a trail of 8 small screens tucked away in the public toilets Bimonthly changeover of artists’ films, videos and photographic sequences. Gloria Harald Pauli with Michael Gottfried and Georg Grabherr, Austria www.gloria.ac.at Alpine views featuring extraordinary flowers and plants living at the edge of existence as part of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in the Alpine environments). Happy the Believers (The toing and froing of the Solipsist) new commission Rob Kennedy, UK Delve into the world of Grand Theft Auto as appropriated by Kennedy for art’s sake. See the romantic gaming hero Ruckenfigur sauntering aimlessly through the hinterland of drab suburbs, wastelands and digitally realised forests. Wee Views new commission Mare Tralla, Estonia/UK www.tralla.net Follow the artist’s own trail as a cultural tourist around the galleries and museums of the world through a series of photographs snapped in the privacy of toilet cubicles.
Bon Voyage produced by Horsecross for Threshold artspace in partnership with 55degrees, ARC Projects, Edinburgh Art Festival, The University of Dundee, Dundee Contenmporary Arts, and International Wildlife Coalition. New commissions and residencies supported by Scottish Arts Council, Croatian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Cultural Endowment.
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