Where do I end and you begin
Derek Tyman
From 1997 to 2016 I worked in collaboration with artist Emma Ruston exhibiting
nationally and internationally. Projects with Rushton combined large-scale
sculptural constructions or reconstructions of specific objects or spaces, that
referred to historical and cultural events. In order to critically examine ideas of
collaboration and participation, artists and cultural producers were invited to
participate in projects.
As part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, Edinburgh Art Festival in
partnership with City Art Centre presented
Where do I end and you begin
a major
international exhibition of art selected by five curators from Commonwealth
countries. Over 20 international artists were invited to explore and interrogate the
ideas, ideals and myths which underpin notions of community, common-wealth,
and the commons. The exhibition featured work by Amar Kanwar, Antonia Hirsch,
Arpita Singh, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Derek Sullivan, Gavin Hipkins, Kay
Hassan, Kushana Bush, Mary Evans, Mary Sibande, Masooma Syed, Naeem
Mohaiemen, Pascal Grandmaison, Rebecca Belmore, Shannon Te Ao, Shilpa Gupta,
Steve Carr, Tam Joseph, Uriel Orlow, Yvonne Todd.
My project with Ruston
Stop Thief!
(a new commission) included- a large tent like
structure
Flaghall
made up of hundreds of hand-stitched imaginary national flags
and formed the fulcrum for two further works:
Conquest, Colonialism and the
Commons
, a 20 minute video lecture we commissioned by Edinburgh based writer
and activist Andy Wightman. Presented inside the
Flaghall
the video explored the
‘historic interconnections’ between Britain’s colonial past and land ownership in
contemporary Scotland; The second work
Stop Thief!
(readings), involved
‘collective readings’ compiled from texts which link ‘corporate financers, witches,
scapegoats, stories of forests, and the commons. Performed simultaneously by
eight actors occupying the four floors of Edinburgh’s Art Centre, the ‘readers’
words spilled out from
Flaghall
across the entire exhibition, as a metaphorical
reference to land grabs and stolen commons.
The exhibition was accompanied by a full colour catalogue with essays by the
curators.
Exhibition
Where do I end and you begin,
Edinburgh Festival, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1
Where do I end and you begin
Derek Tyman
Flaghall
Installation view, Wood, fabric material.
Detail
Stop Thief
performance.
Where do I end and you begin
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A5 exhibition leaflet - published by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Monday
25
August
Edinburgh
Art
Festival Tour:Open Tour
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk,
George Street, EH2 3EY
Curator's Tour: Sorcha Carey 3pm
Free, no booking necessary
City Art Centre,
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
Part of Where do I end and
you begin
Tuesday
26
August
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour:
Festival Projects
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk,
George Streei, EH2 3EY
Spotlight Tour
3pm
Free, no booking necessary
City Art Cenire,
2 Market Sireel, EHl 1DE
Yann Seznec in conversation
with Martin Parker 6.3Opm
Free, bui please book in advance
at www.edinburghartfestival.com
Out of the Blue,
36
Dalmeny Street, EH6 8RGWednesday 27 August
The First World War:
New Art for a New Type of War
12.45pm
Free, no booking necessary Hawthornden Lecture Theatre,
Scottish National Gallery,
The Mound, EH2 2EL
Edinburgh
Art
Festival Tour;Open Tour
'lpm
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Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk,
George Street, EH2 3EY
Titian in Ten
From 2pm
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Scottish Naiional Gallery,
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2El
Picture or Poem? The Poetry of Art and the Art in Poetry 6.3Opm
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The Queen's Gallery,
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Film Clubr Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
7pm
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CodeBase, Argyle House, 3 Lady
Lawson Street, EH3 9DR
Thursday
28
August
Free bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs lOam, returns 3pm
Free, including entry to
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Leaves from and returns to West
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1pm
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Spotlight Tour 3pm
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The House of Adelaida lvanovna
7pm
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Top Floor, Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre,
Ocean Drive, EH6 6JJ
Events Focus: Stop Thief!
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman, Flaghall,2OOS - 2O14, photograph by Sluart Armi'tt
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman's Flaghall, part of our exhibition
Where do I end and you begln, is a space of potential multiple uses
-
a community hall, exhibition space or meeting place. As part of theexhibition the artists have re-imagined Flaghall as a reading room where
texts, talks and performances are brought together under the title
Sfop Ihiefl As part of the programme you can attend a talk by writer
and activist Andy Wightman, author of The Poor Had no Lavtyers, and
a live intervention in the gallery where a series of readings by actors
illuminate the themes explored in the work. Both events take place on
Saturday
30
August at City Art Centre and are free to attend.Events Focus: Yann Seznec
Yann Seznec and the Yann Seznec Fan Club, pho'tograph by Stuart Armitl.
Yann Seznec's Currents is one of our festival commissions f or 2014,
housed in a Police Box on Easter Road. Constructed entirely from
recycled computer {ans, the work is a physical and sonic experience,
drawing on real-time weather data from around the world to move air
around the visitor. The work has been co-commissioned with PRS for
Music Foundation's New Music Biennial, and Seznec has made a set
of musical instruments to accompany the installation. He will perform
using the instruments at both his Artist Talk with Martin Parker on
Tuesday 26 August, and at a special per{ormance as the festival closes
on Sunday 31 August at Trinity Apse. Both events are free to attend,
