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Day 2 of Installation

Day two of installation at patriot hall presented another hiccup, our Course team leader had taken ill and was unable to continue coordination of the show. However the show must go on, and go on it did.

Students were quick to fill the troops in on yesterday’s progress, allowing final decision to be made regarding the placing of artworks. There was great support shown from fellow students in helping each other install the work.

The eventful instillation of the day goes to Liz whose hanging harness had to be hung from a 10 foot height. Two pairs of ladders and three pairs of hands saw it raised, but not quite placed – to be continued tomorrow.

*Apologies for the lack of visual documentation. This should be back on track tomorrow.

First Day of Installation

First day of installation at Patriothall today and everything went pretty well. Minor hiccups included the van being just too small to get all we needed in one load and forgetting the cutlery for lunch.

The gallery itself is a great space tucked away in a really interesting part of Edinburgh’s Newtown. The building has been around for sometime and has gone through various uses including a bakery before being taken over by WASPS and turned into artist studios and a gallery space. (see Brenda Smart at the opening for a historical summary)

Everybody demonstrated great patience and understanding as the process of laying out and installing an exhibition of so many diverse individuals and artworks can be an involved and fractious experience.

Unfortunately I didn’t make time to take as many photographs as I might have hoped but they will give some impression of what went on today.

Lizzie Donnachie at Patriothall Monica Del Campo outside Patriothall library-3280.jpg Kirsty Winter putting final touches to work Christine & Kirsty Lizzies work coming together

HN Diploma Installation Begins

!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5000 hits in 3 Months !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate the 5000th hit on the HND Contemporary Art Practice Blog site we will be launching a series of special blog events.

The second year HND students at Edinburgh’s Telford College will begin the installation of their exhibition at Patriothall Gallery tomorrow, Wednesday 23rd May.

Each day we will publish images and comments from the Gallery on the blog giving all our readers an invaluable insight into the highs and lows of the installation process.

This will be followed by images and comment from the private view on Friday the 25th May.

Finally we will feature the work of all exhibitors on a daily basis until the 30th May when the exhibition will end.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for their interest and comments to date.

!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5000 hits and counting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Week to Go !!!!!!!!!!!!

We are delighted to announce that the Private View of the HND Public Art Diploma Exhibition will Take place on Friday the 25th May 2007. Please see below for details.

For map and further info: CLICK HERE

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Art e-Facts 26

According to its proponents, dada was not art — it was “anti-art“. Dada sought to fight art with art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning — interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend.

It is ironic that Dada became an influential movement in modern art, a commentary on order and the carnage Dadaists believed it wreaked. Through this rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.