Overview
And to you is a sound installation responding to the cultural context of the area, acoustic properties of the site and key concerns of the artist’s practice. Drawing on an archeological framework of investigation, the work takes the form of an excavation within past everyday lives and cultural vernacular. It revolves around the whistling of the tune Colonel Bogey’s March as ambivalent act. Is it the simple humming of a jaunty tune or a veiled act of protest and rebellion?
The tune was written in 1914 as a military march and regularly performed at Edinburgh’s Military Tattoo. Over time it has been re-appropriated repeatedly through the cultural exchange of satirical verse, transforming the tune from the institutional to the informal through collective usage, becoming for a now fading generation, an esoteric act of insult, rebellion and defiance. However through the foggy lens of generational time and vernacular mutation it slowly transforms back to the institutional.
When
10am – 4pm
Playing every 30 minutes, on the hour
Where
Fountain Close
High Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1TF
Map will go here
Contact
Not applicable for this venue
