tim FACEY preview: Sunday 5 June, 7pm – 8pm; Car Park beside Dutch Roofed Church, Water of Leith, The Shore

[pollen]: Friday 10 June, 8pm – 10pm; Kirkgate Shopping Centre, Leith

Programme: Sunday 5 June – Sunday 12th June 2005; Water of Leith/Shore and Kirkgate Shopping Centre. Various Times.

For the 2005 Leith Festival E m e r g e D Edinburgh present [06/05], a unique programme of three events focusing on experimental music and visual art, showcasing artists who work outside the traditional gallery setting to create innovative temporary art works for Leith’s forgotten spaces.

Including: [pollen] Friday 10 June, 8pm – 10pm
An evening of experimental art, music and performance hosted in a disused shop in the New Kirkgate Shopping Centre, Leith (upstairs). The event will bring visual artists together with eight Leith-based musicians all of whom share an affinity for experimentation and off-centre, unconventional musical forms.

ARTISTS: WOUNDED KNEE, Usurper, CK Dexter Haven, F.R.U, pre-, Shareholder, Final Brass Rabbi, catherine STREET, tim FACEY and more.

Curated by wounded KNEE and kirsten LLOYD

E m e r g e D guests are also invited to attend the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop New Members Exhibition which will be held in the adjacent unit:
Upstairs New Kirkgate Shopping Centre
Friday 10 June (6pm – 8pm)

DATE: Sunday 5 June – Sunday 12th June 2005
VENUE: Car Park beside Dutch Roofed Church, Water of Leith
ARTIST: tim FACEY
PREVIEW: Sunday 5 June; 7pm – 8pm

tim FACEY will work over the duration of the Festival on a derelict piece of land beside the Water of Leith constructing an ambitious, impermanent structure which plays with the viewer’s perception of space and scale. As part of [pollen] Tim will also present a one-night performance in the car park behind the upper level of the New Kirkgate Shopping Centre.

FACEY takes ordinary and inexpensive materials to make physically affecting, monumental and dynamic constructions. Working on a large scale with plastic sheeting, paper, tape, wood and metal he tests both his own strength and that of the material to breaking point. The process of construction and experimentation are key to the work as is the individual site and weather conditions.
Supported by Simpson & Brown Architects.

DATE: Sunday 5 June – Sunday 12 June
VENUE: ‘Krackers’ Shopping Unit, Downstairs, New Kirkgate Shopping Centre, Leith
ARTISTS: catherine STREET, wounded KNEE

Leith-based artists catherine STREET and wounded KNEE will transform the orphaned ‘Krackers’ shopping unit using visual and sound installations.

wounded KNEE will present an abstract audio-visual piece ‘Palestine’. A slow-burning intense sound piece will be played alongside visual works where simple geometric forms are repeated in a manner reminiscent of doodles. The sound will build up over a period of time, allowing overtones and feedback to gradually consume the piece. ‘Palestine’ is inspired by the minimalist musician Charlemagne Palestine, a pioneer of physical piano-performances where sustained notes were built up into intense ‘drones’, which affected the audience in an almost physical way.

wounded KNEE is primarily an experimental musician working with guitar, electronics and vocals. Recent work has included performances accompanied by abstract films and collaborations with Edinburgh illustrator One Neck.

catherine STREET will also create a striking visual work especially for the abandoned space in the shopping centre. This will be complemented by her one-night-only installation as part of [pollen] which will include films made in collaboration with ben EWART-DEAN.

STREET’S work focuses on themes of eroticism, corruption and absurdity. Appropriating images and themes from a variety of sources ranging from science fiction novels, art-historical texts and newspapers she recombines documentary and fictional narratives to play with notions of fiction and truth. She works in a variety of media including film, small-scale sculpture, found objects and text.

E m e r g e D is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in Glasgow in April 2002 and expanded to include Leeds in March 2004 and Edinburgh in March 2005. E m e r g e D are committed to promoting and enabling up-and-coming artists interested in working out-with the gallery space.

In Edinburgh E m e r g e D present a dynamic monthly schedule of changing artists’ projects, populating Edinburgh’s forgotten spaces and engaging local communities.

For information on the Leith Festival visit www.leithfestival.com