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Threshold artspace | Current exhibitions and events

portuguese waves | various artists

A group exhibition featuring exclusive Horsecross Arts commissions by Joana Bastos, Mauro Cerqueira and Susana Mendes Silva

Culmination of a five-part ten-month series of new commissions, acquisitions, exhibitions and events celebrating the vibrant Portuguese contemporary art culture

curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira 

Exhibition | 3 apr – 10 aug 10

brunch preview | 3 apr 10 11am-2pm

Curator’s Guided Tours | By prior arrangement through e-mailing inedkova at horsecross.co.uk

Read More | Forthcoming journal issues with newly commissioned essays by Jenny Brownrigg, Chris Byrne and Neil Mullholland  

Exhibition Guide

 Mauro Cerqueira Salto

 

perth and kinross today | various artists

Second in a series of collaborative projects featuring solo statements by members of the Perthshire Photographic Society. Part of a city-wide initiative Celebrating Perth 800 (1210-2010)

guest-selected by Perthshire Photographic Society

Exhibition | 3 apr – 10 aug 10

brunch preview | 3 apr 10 11am-2pm

PerthKinrossToday Roben Antoniewicz

 

Archived | Kyra Clegg

The first solo exhibition at the Threshold artspace by this Scottish artist. Part of a city-wide initiative Celebrating Perth 800 (1210-2010)

guest-curated by Kirsty Duncan

Exhibition | 3 apr – 10 aug 10

brunch preview | 3 apr 10 11am-2pm

off-site show | 26 Mar – 15 Jul: AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, PH2 8EP

Exhibition Guide

Kyra Clegg

 


EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE | Works from the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art

 

File Extinguisher | Vuk Cosic 

exhibition | 1 Aug  09 – ongoing 

Excavating the history of the Internet, the artist stumbled upon the seminal Rand Memorandum RM-3420-PR (1960) by engineer Paul Baran. Describing a model of distributed network, intended to survive an eventual nuclear attack, Baran’s document however was published without ... the file extinguisher. Rectifying this omission, Cosic creates a tongue-in-cheek online application as a ‘safety tool’ for any files or websites which need deleting.

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file extinguisher

File Extinguisher

Commissioned and acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen as part of Out of Character | Vuk Cosic. Programming by Aleš Gabrovec. Initially commissioned by Hamaca, Barcelona and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London.

 

 

Figure Skating | Julita Wojcik 

exhibition | 9 May 09 – ongoing

The first artwork by Julita Wojcik to appear on YouTube. Acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Domestic Modernism | Julita Wojcik

Threshold artspace youtube channel

 

Figure Skating | Julita Wojcik

 

Artist's YouTube mix (1960-2007) | Igor Krenz

exhibition | 4 Apr 09 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen and Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Circles and Squares | Igor Krenz

Threshold artspace youtube channel

YouTube Mix

 

cantus | alec finlay

exhibition | 10 may 08 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Wave as a 22 channel video installation. Subsequently re-created as the current Internet-based endless circular poem with a theme and variations. Premiered as part of Primary Ingredients group show exploring the primacy of text in contemporary artists' visual grammar. 

cantus

Alec Finlay Arvo Part

In the artist’s own words: “It arose from my experience of hearing Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, lying in bed listening to Radio Three on a dark and rainy night. The music interfusing with the rain was suggestive of John Cage’s experience of listening to records in his cabin at Stony Point, and hearing the sounds of the surrounding woodland come in his open window, mixing in with the music.

Arvo Part’s later compositions, sometimes referred to as a form of spiritual minimalism, reflect a deep personal crisis: an impasse that he overcame by immersing himself in early music —  plainsong, Gregorian chant and polyphony. His later style is characterised by simple harmonies, often single unadorned notes. Another characteristic of Pärt's later works is that they are frequently settings for sacred texts.

My poem suggests aspects of Part’s life, faith and style, using a few simple words, their changes suggesting notes moving up or down a scale, creating verbal slippages of meaning, mishearings. There are echos of an earlier piece that I published in a contemporary Book of Hours, ‘Faith & Failure’ (Hours, 2003).”

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