June 2007

7thAdaptation. Redesigning the everyday

Design is all around you, even in the most unlikely places. Adaptation, Peacock Visual Arts’ contribution the Six Cities Design Festival, looks into the impact of design in everyday life. With a gallery exhibition, interventions in public space and talks by various international artists.

7thTuesday 12 June: Talk by Marjolijn Dijkman

In her research project 'Theatrum orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World) Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman connects issues around design to wider themes of local contexts. Small and large aspects of space, disregarding their geographical or contextual location are being questioned, photographed and archived, trying to create a “different type of atlas”. This Tuesday Marjolijn makes her digital ‘atlas’ public in a presentation at Peacock. Starts 6pm, admission free.

11thShopping in Aberdeen

Dominic Hislop is intrigued by the decline in the number of local independent retailers and growing mono-cultural dominance of large national chain stores and supermarket giants in Aberdeen’s streets and market stalls. A 'shop window' exhibition of photographs and text excerpts from interviews with local shop keepers can be seen this week on 199 King Street.

11thDownload free publication by Brett Bloom & Bonnie Fortune

As part of 'Adaptation. Redesigning the everyday' Chicago artists Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune made a booklet about the work they created for the exhibition. You can download the publication for free...

13thSaturday night live music at the gallery

This Saturday, 16 June, Interesting Music Promotions present Christ. with support from The Jinx and Herzog. "Christ.'s expert layers of melody, broken beats and textures say pretty much everything, and along with his popularity as a formidable live act he is a rare breed indeed". Doors open 8pm. Tickets on the door £6.

18thJonathan Jones remembered in exhibition Z + (Blue) 2

Jonathan Jones, who worked for Peacock as a printmaker for many years, passed away in 2005. Jonathan's enigmatic artist collective Z + (Blue)2 , active between 2001 to 2005 in Aberdeen, expanded from printmaking into the fields of design, interactive programmes, film and video. A new exhibition is dedicated to Jonathan and his unique approach and skill as an artist. Opening night Friday 29 June, 6 - 8pm. Exhibition runs from 30 June - 11 August.

18thLee Hutcheon gives Masterclass filmmaking 5 July

Award-winning filmmaker Lee Hutcheon will be giving a masterclass on Thursday evening 5 July, 6.30pm. He will be discussing the process of making 'In a Man's World' and his new release 'The Clan'. Admission free, all welcome. This event is part of the ongoing ViewFinder programme of moving-image based events.

18thSo Quiet It Kame club night at Peacock this Friday

This Friday, 22 June, Aberdeen's music collective So Quiet It Kame organises an evening of live music at Peacock's gallery. With Strike The Colours, Ziggy Campbell and Simblox, and Tupelo Town Assembly. Doors open 8pm. Tickets on the door £4.

25thNew Book: Tillydrone.

Tillydrone, a community of 4000 inhabitants, is one of six regeneration areas in Aberdeen, an area with high concentrations of social housing, unemployment, drug and alcohol misuse, crime and anti social behaviour – a community with a bad reputation. During a six months artist residency Eva Merz experienced the community close-up; some of the women she met are represented in this book: in nine interviews they speak about their personal lives, their work, and views on regeneration and social problems in the community....

29thPlans for new Centre for Contemporary Art take a step forward

Peacock Visual Arts in partnership with the city's arts education and arts development teams have put forward a proposal for a new 'iconic' building in Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens. Last Wednesday Aberdeen City Council gave their backing in principal to the project. Sports and culture spokeswoman Councillor Jennifer Stewart said: "This is a hugely exciting project that can be a focus for the arts in Aberdeen and generate the kind of buzz that everyone in the city is looking for." Read more...