Timecode at DCA Dundee

This weekend I went to the Timecode exhibition at the DCA, Dundee. Since it's the DCA's 10th anniversary year the work was all linked with the theme of time passing.

There was a really interesting sound piece from Kelly Mark titled "I really should" which was a spoken stream of consciousness where Mark listed things such as "I really should check my blood pressure... I really should go and see the world... I really should have used primer... I really should join the going trend. I really should celebrate my uniqueness." This list had originally been a film but was translated to a written piece on a fridge and now as this sound piece. 

Another interesting piece was Beacon by John Thomson and Alison Craighead using a mechanical railway flap sign to display internet searches someone somewhere is making at that moment in time. Every few minutes the public information sign changes acting like an "endless piece of concrete poetry; the authors of each line of text remain totally anonymous, whilst the viewer experiences a random stream of information that indicates current interests and preoccupations."  Reading each line as it appears gives you a real curiosity for who was searching, why they were and what results they read etc. 

National Review of Live Art

NRLA at The Arches Thursday 12th Feb

Third Angel

9 Billion Miles From Home

Performance- two artists are tied together through a pulley system and perform a ritualistic set-up process (filling a large circle with talcum powder dust) and then, after an explanation for the audience, each goes on a journey. We then get a description of what he saw and she answers questions about her experience ("How far are you from a moment of stillness?" etc)

The performance took about 1 and a half hours, reminded me of meditation- ritual, time consuming, focussed, thoughtful, self...

"We're going on a journey

  we're performing a ritual.

  We want to live in a big here, and a long now

  we want to let thinks take the time that they take.

  We are beginning to understand that we can't do that alone."

Eva Meyer-Keller

Handmade, shown in the foyer. 3 films of models representing weather catastrophes but made with everyday materials and placed inside a rotating aquarium- great reflections. 

"choreographic arts and crafts"

Billy Cowie 

The Revery Alone

3D film of female dancer on ceiling so that she seems to be hanging above the audience. Interesting what the audience will do to participate/view the work- in this case a room full of strangers, lying on the ground and wearing 3D glasses...