The Traverse Cubed³ Visual Art installations by AILEEN CAMPBELL and MARK MELVIN are available for public viewing. The work within the Traverse Bar Café can be viewed during the regular opening times: Monday - Saturday 10.30am - 11pm & Sundays 5pm - 11pm

Backstage works can be accessed:
Tuesday - Thursday 5pm - 7pm; Saturday 2pm - 5pm

Extended hours are on the following days:
Friday, 17 November 5pm - 6.30pm
Friday, 24 November 5pm - 7pm

If you would like to arrange a group viewing, please contact the Traverse Box Office on 0131 228 1404 or boxoffice@traverse.co.uk


Traverse Cubed³ is a new season of emerging artists work at the Traverse which includes theatre, music and visual art. Taking place throughout the Traverse building it includes theatre productions, music concerts, visual art installations, play readings, workshops, masterclasses and a residential writers’ course.

12 Stars
Aileen Campbell
Dan Williams
First Glimpse Presentations
Gavin Marwick
Highway Diner
John Harris
Mark Melvin
Martin Parker
Masterclasses
Pippa Murphy
Torsten Lauschmann
Traverse Theatre Company
Writers Residency

Traverse Theatre
10 Cambridge Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 2ED

For tickets and information: 0131 228 1404, www.traverse.co.uk
  



 



For further information please email amy@emerged.net or kirsten@emerged.net		  
 

Traverse Cubed³ Visual Arts
Curated by Kirsten Lloyd and Amy Sales		   Commissioned by E m e r g e D and Traverse Theatre
www.emerged.net

Traverse Cubed³ Music
Filament - Copperwire
Curated by John Harris
Commissioned by 7HINGS and Traverse Theatre		   Music Concert 29 Oct 7.30pm Featuring performances from Gavin Marwick, SPKE, Pippa Murphy, Martin Parker and Torsten Lauschmann
Remix 1: Dan Williams Friday 10 Nov 10.30pm
Remix 2: Torsten Lauschmann Friday 24 Nov 10.30pm
www.seventhings.co.uk
For ticket prices and information, please contact the Traverse Box Office on 0131 228 1404
Cubed³ Visual Arts: Looking beneath the polished performances and behind the stage doors, visual artists Aileen Campbell and Mark Melvin are exploring the hidden depths of the Traverse.

Throughout the autumn they have been given unlimited access to the theatre’s labyrinth of back corridors, prop cupboards, workshop areas and brightly lit dressing rooms. Their stay will culminate in new bodies of work which use and respond to this unique environment revealing new perspectives on theatre, music and the Traverse itself.
THE ARTISTS: The loop and the glitch

Aileen Campbell and Mark Melvin share an attraction to the glitch; flaws and idiosyncrasies which interfere with the formal rules and structures usually associated with music and storytelling.

In their videos, performances and voiceworks, time becomes a tangible force often clearly delineated through constant rhythms or metronomes. Actions, stories and songs are repeated or looped allowing the artists to hone in on the moment when the narrative breaks down or where the sound degrades and even collapses under the pressure. Snippets from popular culture and the everyday regularly appear as Mark re-enacts scenes from The Sound of Music (von trapped) and Aileen duets with mundane objects, including a popcorn machine.

Breakingdown moments, films, stories, songs and objects and reconstituting them into different forms ensures that Mark and Aileen’s work is in an almost constant state of becoming, as they both focus on process to expose new perspectives and idea.
Aileen Campbell

Aileen is a visual artist who makes voiceworks. Through her work she explores her intimate understanding of the structure of music gained during her time as a young chorister and from voice tuition to extend her vocal technique. Her performance and video pieces construct situations which question historical perceptions and personal experiences of the voice.

As well as employing her own voice Aileen recruits untrained groups of singers. In Rehearsal Room a performance/installation first exhibited in 2003, she successfully conducted a gallery audience through a series of voice exercises via a television screen showing brief instructions and coloured bouncing balls corresponding to the colour of the audience’s lapel carnations distributed prior to the event. Removing the possibility of a polished performance, the rehearsal and the experiment are no longer the precursors to the event, but are the event in themselves.

During Aileen’s MFA at The Glasgow School of Art she undertook a one-year exchange to CalArts in Los Angeles where she was encouraged to work across the Music and Fine Art departments. Aileen has collaborated with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and exhibited at Gimpel Fils (London), Tramway (Glasgow), Dangerous Curve (Los Angeles USA) and Edinburgh College of Art.


Mark Melvin

Collaborating with musicians, staging performances in the street and reworking old Hollywood favourites Mark aims to bring together sound and image on an equal footing.

In his performance/video piece Intervals (2004) two street buskers spend over three hours playing the same sequence of ten songs a short distance apart. As random passers-by cause the musicians to ‘skip’ in the manner of a scratched record, the songs de-syncronise and degrade creating a new composition in collaboration with the pedestrians.

Mark is heavily influenced by American Minimalist music and regularly collaborates with musicians and composers (including his brother Adam Melvin) on projects which combine musical performance with live video streaming.

Having graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2002 Mark is now completing his MFA at St Martin’s College in London. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Crosby Show Manchester Art Prize and was invited to mount a major solo show “The Second Hand Unwinds” in Manchester City Art Gallery. He has also exhibited in Site Gallery (Sheffield), Royal Exchange Theatre (Manchester), The Royal Academy of Music (London), Cargo (London).
E m e r g e D

E m e r g e D is a commissioning agency that specialise in working with artists across a broad range of disciplines with a fresh focus on site and context. Engaging new audiences in dialogue with contemporary art and artists, we facilitate innovative projects in orphaned spaces out with conventional galleries.
7HINGS

Seven Things I Daren't Express is a Scottish-based company that commissions and records new experimental music worldwide and makes it available from the internet. Visit www.seventhings.co.uk for free content, exclusive downloads and podcasts.