Peacock is the leading contemporary visual arts organisation in Aberdeen and the NE of Scotland, bringing artists and the public together through exhibitions‚ events‚ talks‚ residencies‚ film screenings‚ gigs and workshops to make and present art in exciting and innovative ways.
North West // Katri Walker
18 March - 30 April, 2011
Preview Night 18 March, 6 - 8pm, all welcome!
With live performances from Wounded Knee and some real life cowboys on the scene from the Northern Roughriders- yeeha!
Katri Walker presents new video work exploring Scotland's historic and contemporary relationship with 'Wild West' visual culture. Featuring a collaborative audiovisual installation with experimental musician Wounded Knee.
With thanks to the Northern Roughriders & Pipe Major Iain Grant
Katri Walker, 'The Making of Three Guns for a Killing' [Still], 2011
An essay by Dr. Dominic Paterson
Lecturer in Art History, Glasgow University
"The concerns of Katri Walker’s exhibition North West might be seen as literally embodied in the large photographic print of a bare-chested piper which greets the viewer on entering the gallery. At first glance this image seems to portray a quintessential masculine Scottish identity, perhaps even an exaggeration of that identity. But this reading is complicated when we notice that alongside almost clichéd signifiers of Scottishness the man in this photograph bears other cultural symbols: a Stars and Stripes dog tag and a tattoo of the iconic Old West gunslinger Wyatt Earp..."(read more)
Shootout: from social documentary to storytelling in contemporary moving image
A symposium that explores how artists make stories and scenarios that help us understand the complexity of our globalized societies.
- Date: Saturday 16 April
- Time: 2-4pm
- Location: PVA
The shootout symposium is open to all, cowboys and Indians alike!
Presented in parallel with Stills’ Social Documents programme, a three-year programme of exhibitions, screenings, workshops and talks exploring artists’ engagement with documentary processes and formats. For more information see www.stills.org.
To book please contact info@peacockvisualarts.co.uk or call 01224 639539.
CINECLUB // Weekly Westerns
Running in conjunction with Katri Walker's exhibition North West, CINECLUB presents a selection of weekly westerns curated by film critic Antonia Quirke.
For full screening details click here.
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