This is a past event
Cultural Interchange Beyond Language and Locations. Exhibition A to/from B.
All are welcome to this open discussion event Cultural Interchange Beyond Language and Locations being held at Seventeen Belmont Street, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
The event is part of WAGON’s current art project A to/from B – a year long silent conversation online at followed by a physical exhibition. Participating are two contemporary visual artists who were given no information about each other before the exhibition and share no cultural background. The artists are
- Martyna Benedyke, a recent graduate from gray’s School of Art
- Kaori Yamashita, a Japanese artist working internationally.
The discussion follows the call and response spirit of the original brief inviting speakers to present visual material they think resonates with A to/from B. Selected film extracts include:
- Correspondences: Jonas Mekas- José Luis Guerín (2011, directed by Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín, production of CCCB: Centre de Culture Contemporània de Barcelona),
- Video Letter: Shuntaro Tanikawa and Shuji Terayama (filmed in 1982-3, production of art days INC.)
- Flash in the Metropolitan by Roasalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer (2006, 16mm film, courtesy of Nashashibi/Skaer, LUX, London and Murray Guy, New York)
Speakers
- Martyna Benedyka (Artist)
- Dr. Leslie Mabon (Environmental Sociology, Robert Gordon University)
- Chris Yuill (Sociologist, Robert Gordon University)
- Caroline Gausden (Gray’s School of Art, SCAN)
- Naoko Mabon (Independent Curator, WAGON)
Exhibition A to/from B from Saturday 12 September to Saturday 3 October 2015 at Seventeen.
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