Jeans & MacDonald, Ortonandon, Alexa Hare
Counterpoint events
16 August 2014
Alexa Hare, My Friend Katie is an Artist, 2014. Video still.
Edinburgh Art Festival and Talbot Rice Gallery's collaboration for 2014 brings an evening of co-commissioned performances to the surrounds of the gallery’s Counterpoint exhibition.
By creating a website that will be live only for a 3-hour performance period, and creating a temporary ‘Internet Café’ in the Gallery, Jeans & MacDonald will explore the 25 years since the creation of the World Wide Web and the generational time frame since its inception.
Ortonandon, an artist collective consisting of 3 sisters Katie, Sophie and Anna Orton, present Toot Sweet Suit Suite, a unique suit reclamation service that questions social identity, redresses the loss of the bespoke and considers the freedom of dress-down workdays.
In the Georgian Gallery, Alexa Hare will show a series of ‘fan videos’ made for fellow artists, accompanied by live, part-scripted and part improvised performance elements, involving the featured artists and a performed soundtrack.
Saturday 16 August, 6-9pm
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210