8th - 17th July 2011 - Dundee Live Public Art and Performance Festival

Events Image - Dundee Artists in Residence 2010

Between September 2010 - July 2011 D-AiR engaged in a wide variety of public art and performance events under the collective heading, Dundee Live. Our work sought to challenge and enrich what we knew about ourselves, each other and the city of Dundee. Activities included exhibitions, performances, reading groups, residencies, field trips, temporary public artworks, skill share workshops, and urban gardening.

The Festival, a culmination of the year's activity, was curated by Jonathan Baxter. It was a momentary breathing space in the performance of the city.

See below for an archive of Festival events.

If things are seen differently, they change. From these shifts in perspective we, too, are changed. ... We make the art and the art makes us.
Suzanne Lacy

Introduction and dates for your diary

Dundee Live Public Art and Performance Festival is the culmination of a years activity by D-AiR (Dundee Artists in Residence).

7th July - Cara Tolmie and Lumpen Nobleman - Preview

DCA are delighted to use the Bonar Hall Theatre Space for a new work that takes Tolmie’s DCA installation, Read Thou Art and Read Thou Shalt Remain, in an interesting new direction.

8th - 17th July - Lindsay Brown / Stray Seal - Drift

The River Tay gives the City of Dundee a natural border that partially encloses the city with a fluid barrier.

8th - 17th July - Mappa Mundi - Group Show & Opening Performance

Mappa Mundi is a general term used to describe medieval European maps of the world. Popularly mistranslated as 'map of the world,' the correct translation is 'cloth of the world'. Mappa = cloth.

8th July - Four-day Network of Expanded Meaning - Lecture

I is the knowing subject, a machine constructed for the production of ideas. I is the social construct necessary to know the contemporary world and to produce it.

9th July - Scottish Dance Theatre

Join Scottish Dance Theatre dancers as they walk through the city responding to the buildings and environment around them.

9th July - Guerrilla Gallery - Tayside Recyclers, Opening Event

Join us at Tayside Recyclers Emporium and Dance Lounge for the official opening of Dundee Live.

8th - 17th July - Helen Angell-Preece - (My Location is) ... Wherever you ... (happen to be)

Placing 15 alternative Newspaper Billboard Headlines outside Newsagents shops in and around Dundee city centre, each of these texts conveys personal emotions and messages of love.

8th - 17th July - Derek Lodge - Daysaver

Using a daysaver bus ticket Derek travels routes 1, 5, 15, 22, and 28.

8th - 17th July - Mary Sommerville - Object Lives

Interested in our continuous movement through different spaces and built environments, I am particularly drawn to the character of locations and objects deemed unfit for human use.

9th - 17th July - Sarah Gittins - The Same Green: A visual journey into the world of rice

The title for this exhibition is taken from a haiku written in 1815 by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa:

your rice field
my rice field
the same green

15th July - Karen Spy - Arbor Vitae - Emergency Intervention V

Karen's work pays attention to integrity and healing through attentive labour and ritual process.

15th July - Pernille Spence - Falling Up, Dancing Down

Falling Up, Dancing Down is inspired by an event in 1982 where American truck driver, Larry Walters, attempted a balloon flight using a cluster of helium filled weather balloons and a lawn chair.

16th July - Jambula

Alice Ladenburg (artist) and Iain Woodhouse (physicist) have been working together since a research trip to Malawi in late 2010.

14th July - 19th August - Soil - Group Show & Dundee Live Performances

Soil

v. to defile or pollute with sin
n. the earth or ground