Dundee Live Public Art and Performance Festival is the culmination of a years activity by D-AiR (Dundee Artists in Residence). Celebrating Dundee as a city of culture and creativity, there are numerous exhibitions, live art performances, walks, talks, and related events.

Dundee Live is curated by Jonathan Baxter. Dundee is its form and informe content.

All events are free but some (DCA and HMC) have limited places so pre-booking is essential. (See below for relevant details.)

What follows is a whiz-bop chronological tour of the festival highlighting times and dates. For further information - including full venue addresses and artists' statements etc - see the main entries on the Dundee Live page.

Programmes can be collected from the following venues: Botanic Garden, Central Library, DCA, Hannah Maclure Centre, Olympia Leisure Centre, and Tayside Recyclers.

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Thursday 7th July - Festival preview

7pm-9pm
Bonar Hall (Dundee University)
Preview event in association with DCA - a new work that takes Cara Tolmie's DCA installation, Read Though Art Read Thou Shalt Remain, in an interesting new direction. Music by Lumpen Nobleman.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL - CALL DCA ON 01382 909900

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OVERVIEW OF EXHIBITIONS:

Friday 8th - Sunday 17th July
10am-5pm (Central Library, HMC, and Tayside Recyclers are closed on Sundays)

Central Library (Leisure Reading)
Group Show - Mappa Mundi
D-AiR's Reading Towards Action Group variously present or misrepresent maps of the city

Hannah Maclure Centre
Group Show - SOIL
7 artists present work on themes related to soil in collaboration with SIMBIOS soil research center

Olympia Leisure Centre
Lindsay Brown / Stray Seal - Drift
Back-projected film and video installation of the river tay in performative drift

Tayside Recyclers
Mary Somerville - Object Lives
Second-hand goods emerge as characters within multi-screen stop motion animations

Sunday 10th - Sunday 17th July

Botanic Garden (Education Centre)
Sarah Gittins - The Same Green: A visual journey into the world of rice
(Artists talk and rice picnic on Sunday 17th July at 2pm)

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Friday 8th July

7am-8am
Lindsay Brown / Stray Seal
While Lindsay drifts on the incoming tide, we'll slowly (perhaps sleepily) walk the river's edge
(Gathering under the Tay Rd Bridge)

4pm-5.15pm
Generator Projects
Lecture from Glasgow Open School on individual and collective investigations into labour and the (im)materiality of knowledge and production

6pm-8pm
Central Library
Mappa Mundi opening event includes live performances, poetry, music, and dance

9.30pm-10.30pm
Lindsay Brown / Stray Seal
While Lindsay drifts on the outgoing tide, we'll slowly walk the river's edge
(Gathering under the Tay Railway Bridge)

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Saturday 9th July

11am-1pm
Scottish Dance Theatre - dance through the city
Commence at the Central Library and finish at Olympia Leisure Centre

8pm-midnight
Tayside Recyclers
Dundee Live opening event in association with Guerrilla Gallery - musicians and performers host another multimedia happening

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Sunday 10th July

Various exhibitions ...

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Monday 11th - Thursday 14th July

12.30pm-1.30pm
Hannah Maclure Centre (part of SOIL)
Performance platform - The four dignities: Lying (mon), Sitting (tues), Standing (wed), Walking (thurs)
Jonathan Baxter and you (if you care to)

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Friday 15th July - Falling / Closing ... in order to begin

10am-11am
City Square
Karen Spy - Arbor Vitae - Emergency Intervention V
Incorporating myth and symbolism with the sole intention of restoring balance

10am-8pm
Abertay University Quadrangle
Pernille Spence - Falling Up, Dancing Down
The culmination of the day's performance process will be at 6pm when the artist is lifted into the air by helium-filled weather balloons until she reaches a point of suspension

7pm-8.30pm
Hannah Maclure Centre
Falling - live performance by Jonathan Baxter and various members of the public, followed by HMC African Dance class and BiTilo, an African drumming group playing traditional Senegalese rhythms and songs

BOOKING ESSENTIAL (for the HMC event only) - CALL 01382 308324 OR email exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

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Saturday 16th July

6pm onwards
GENERATORprojects
Jambula - Filmscreening and discussion with the artist Alice Ladenburg

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Sunday 17th July

2pm-4pm
Botanic Garden
Sarah Gittins - artists talk and rice picnic

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Out and about for the duration of the festival:

Helen Angell-Preece - (My Location is) Wherever you (Happen to be)
15 alternative newspaper billboard headlines to be spotted outside selected city centre Newsagents

Derek Lodge - Daysaver
An audio artwork to be enjoyed by Dundee bus users (download details on Derek's Dundee Live link)

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