40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
Decision Time
http://decisiontimescotland.blogspot.co.uk/
Decision Time was an exhibition with a series of performances, talks and dialogues curated in collaboration with artist, Zoë Irvine, where we invited artists to explore and consider decision-making processes with in the context of the Scottish Referendum on independence.
As time progressed towards the referendum people were increasingly engaged and
debate abounded. When striving for objective knowledge to evaluate and base our decisions on, we were confronted with subjective reasoning, hopes and fears.
Decision Time brought together works that explored, often playfully,
individual processes, reflections and conclusions. Just like other members of the public, artists researched, expressed their preferences, beliefs, feelings, affiliations, confusions and decisions.
The exhibition existed in the week before the historic referendum on
Scottish independence took place.
The show was not party political, although there were different views
expressed in some of the works. Decision Time was a celebration of the process of choosing, the act of deciding and the possible consequences of those choices at that very moment in Scotland.
Link to Decision Time booklet
https://issuu.com/nilspence/docs/decision_time_booklet
Decision Time was curated by Zoë Irvine & Pernille Spence in collaboration 5 Million Questions at the University of Dundee.
Out oy My Hands, performance devised by Joe Coghill
Clear Stripes, a performance by Richard Layzell
My Daughter's Oil Rig, by Iain Sturrock
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same. J-B Karr, Les Guêpes, January 1849) by Liz Skulina