Sorcha Dallas

Exhibition Opening Wednesday 31 March 6 - 8pm

The City and The Stars Thursday 01 April - Sunday 18 July 2010 11am - 6pm daily

An exhibition, programme of events and Film Lounge programme coinciding with the Edinburgh Science Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010.

Emma Kay (London) Rut Blees Luxemburg (Baden, Germany)
Craig Mulholland (Glasgow)

Curated by Louisa Adam

Alluding to Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The City and The Stars, this exhibition stimulates us to consider afresh beliefs and knowledge from which we generate meaning, and encourages us to reflect upon and explore society and the spaces we inhabit.

The World From Memory and The Future From Memory are used humorously by Emma Kay to play out a recognisably human and inevitably unreliable narrative, challenging how we employ our memories as a source for reference. Craig Mulholland’s works from his series Grandes et Petites Machines animate freestanding instruments, reflecting upon the extent to which regulation is perceivable in even the smallest details of everyday life. Rut Blees Luxemburg has made large-scale photographic works which disclose and illuminate possibilities and experiences within our cities and plays with the extent to which we are conditioned in reading images.

Stills will launch its new Film Lounge programme in June 2010 to present a selection of Artists’ films which explore ideas of faith and knowledge within The City and The Stars exhibition.

Film Lounge is Stills’ permanent new screening room hosting a changing programme of moving image works.

Launching in June 2010, our first programme will run from 18 June - 18 July and will explore the themes and ideas from The City and The Stars with films from emerging and established, Scottish and International artists working with the medium of film.

The practice or medium of film and video installation is now a dominant form in contemporary art. Responding to this, the Film Lounge will be a unique open-access resource available for the public to view contemporary and historical film works. Each programme will have a diverse perspective on moving image, representing formal and conceptual approaches taken by artists and film makers.

The programmes will be curated in response to the themes within Stills’ exhibitions. The Film Lounge is initiated by Stills’ Programme Fellow Debi Banerjee and will be co-curated with Lisa Le Feuvre and Kirsten Lloyd with the support of national and international film collections and agencies.

Click here to register for our launch event!