The Being Human festival continues with a special Director's Cut event featuring artist Volker Gerling.
Following the success of his sold out show at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival, and winner of the Festival's Total Theatre Award for 'Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form', Berlin-based artist Volker Gerling comes to Aberdeen to demonstrate his unique visual art form: Portraits in Motion.
Volker has reinvented a personalized way of coupling the power of the still image with the adventure of movement, producing unexpected results. In order to obtain his subjects, he has walked over 3,500km around Europe, seeking out interesting people with engaging stories to portray, while spending his nights in a tent. Unusually, he does not take money with him on his months-long photographic journeys, but exhibits his artistic work en route and once a week selects a subject to feature in a ‘flipbook’. The results are often startling and always poignant as he reveals in his captivating presentation, which will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Alan Marcus and an audience Q&A.
This is one of a packed programme of events in the fascinating Being Human festival. Funded and led by the School of Advanced Study, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The British Academy and the Wellcome Trust, the festival brings an exciting variety of events to Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.
Tuesday 17 November, Being Viking, 17:30 - 18:30, Belmont Filmhouse
Wednesday 18 November, Home or Abroad? 19:00 - 21:00, Satrosphere Science Centre
Wednesday 18 November, Director's Cut with Volker Gerling: Portraits in motion 18:00 - 20:00, King's College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen
Thursday 19 November,The David Buchan Lecture: Health Legends, Epidemics and the Politics of Risk. 18:30 - 21:00 King's College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen
Thursday 19 November, Being Human Hosted by Helen Keen of BBC Radio 4’s It is Rocket Science! and The Infinite Monkey Cage 19:00 - 21:00 Cellar 35
Friday 20 November, Halloween and Bonfire Night: what do you do? 19:00- 21:00 MacRobert Lecture Theatre
Friday 20 November, Careful what we wish for? Clashing laws, energy and society, 19:00 - 20:30 Queens Cross Church
Friday 20 November, Guided tour: George Jamesone's Aberdeen 14:30-16:00, Meet at St Nicholas Churchyard
Saturday 21 November, Tour of St Nicholas Church, 13:00 - 15:00 St Nicholas Church
Throughout the Festival, Bright Ideas: the art and science of light, King's Museum, University of Aberdeen and George Jamesone - Portrait Painter, Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Monday to Saturday 10:00-17:00; Sunday 12:00-15:00
Chris Croly, Project Officer in the University’s Public Engagement with Research Unit, said:
“The University conducts a diverse and fascinating variety of humanities research and in hosting Being Human, we have an excellent opportunity to share this with the wider community.
“We are committed to making this important research as accessible to as many people as possible through a range of different formats from talks to walk and events and conferences. There really is something for everyone.”
Most of the events are free but many require booking and more information about all of these events can be found at www.abdn.ac.uk/beinghuman.
The festival programme in Aberdeen is co-ordinated by the Public Engagement with Research Unit.
