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Film Screening
Film Screening: Lure of the Lost
The Gallery, The Sir Duncan Rice Library
until 30th October 2016
On St Anthony’s day, 14 July 2015, only two days after submitting his PhD thesis, artist Anthony Schrag set out from the Aberdeenshire town of Huntly on a 2,500 km ‘contemporary pilgrimage’ to the Venice Biennale. Walking for 110 days through Britain, France, and Switzerland, crossing the Alps on the way, Anthony set out to question the relative absence of social practice visible at an event viewed by the art world as a near-sacred destination for contemporary artists. In the process, Lure of the Lost became a project as much about the exploration of loneliness and hospitality, endurance and doubt, as it was about the politics and aesthetics of Venice.
Stuart Armitt’s film combines footage recorded by Armitt on several visits he made to Anthony along the route with Anthony’s own documentation of the journey. The result is a highly personal and evocative insight into the Lure of the Lost story.
The film will be shown on continuous loop in The Gallery in The Sir Duncan Rice Library until 30 October.
Gallery Opening Times:
Mon to Sat: 10am - 7pm
Sundays: 11am - 5pm
Stuart Armitt is a freelance photographer and filmmaker based in Edinburgh. Since graduating from Napier University in 2011, he has developed strong relationships with a number of artists and large-scale organisations, and works both nationally and internationally. From individual artists to theatre, dance and arts companies, his work is explored from a highly theoretical and critical perspective, as well as a personal, intuitive context. He is currently engaged with Edinburgh International Festival, guiding and contributing to various media platforms throughout the festival.
Anthony Schrag was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in the Middle East, UK, Canada and is currently based somewhere in Scotland. He has worked nationally and internationally, including residencies in Iceland, USA, Canada, Finland, Holland and South Africa. He doesn’t do many exhibitions because he is conflicted about ‘objects’ and is afraid of the permanence they suggest. Instead, he works in participatory manner, and central to his practice is a broader discussion about the place of art in a social context.
Anthony has been the recipient of numerous awards including The Hope Scot Trust, Creative Scotland, British Council, the Dewar Arts Award, the 2011 Standpoint Futures: Public residency award, as well as a Henry Moore Artist Fellowship. Last year, he walked 2638 km from the north of Scotland to the Venice Biennale to explore the place of participatory artworks within the public realm. His practice-based PhD explores the relationship between artists, institutions and the public, looking specifically at the productive nature of conflict.
www.anthonyschrag.com; https://theartpilgrimage.wordpress.com/
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- Special Collections Centre
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- The Gallery, The Sir Duncan Rice Library
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