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Look Again @ Garthdee Campus Look Again - main festival

20 - 24 April 2017 27 April - 1 May 2017

FESTIVAL GUIDE Introduction

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A very warm welcome to Look Again Festival of familiar, uncovering the little-known, and asking Festivals Booking: Visual Art and Design 2017. In this, our third year, questions about our place in the wider world. we are bigger and bolder than ever, bringing you Festivals in Aberdeen are unique, inspiring and most of To book one of the talks, events or 11 new commissions across the city and RGU Whether born, brought up, educated or living all, entertaining. workshops visit: www.eventbrite.com campus (Look Again @ Garthdee Campus – see here, most of our invited artists and designers and search for your chosen event. P25), as well as plenty of talks, tours, exhibitions, share strong connections to the north east; we For its third year, Aberdeen Festivals looks forward films and workshops for all to enjoy at our partner all want to show how creativity can transform to representing eleven of the city’s major cultural Contact: venues. a place. Look Again’s wider purpose is to be a festivals. The festivals will work alongside each other to catalyst to a stronger creative scene in the region, collaborate on one-off performances, grow audiences If you have any queries or would like 2017 is ’s Year of History, Heritage and working year round so that more artists, designers and strengthen Aberdeen’s cultural sector. more info please contact us via social Archaeology, and the artists and designers we and makers can stay and thrive here, enhancing media or email: have worked with have spent time researching the quality of life and generating a buzz across Aberdeen Festivals is made up of some of the biggest [email protected] our city through its historic collections. the city for everyone. and best festivals Scotland has to offer. With world-class performances and international premieres, the diversity Travel: Aberdeen has some of the oldest and most We would like to thank all those who have helped of festivals will run throughout 2017, showcasing the best complete archives in the UK; UNESCO recognised to make the festival possible, in particular our talent from arts and science to music and dance. First Bus - no. 1/2 (every 10mins) city archives and those at Aberdeen Harbour funders Creative Scotland, Aberdeen City Council Aberdeen City Centre - RGU Campus Board, the UK’s oldest company, to the Seven and Robert Gordon University. Aberdeen Festivals members are: SPECTRA, Aberdeen Incorporated Trades dating back to the 1200s. Jazz Festival, Look Again, May Festival, Scottish First Bus - no. 23 (every 20mins) We have also explored the objects and artworks Find out more information about Look Again Traditional Boat Festival (STBF), Aberdeen International Aberdeen City Centre - GHAT, ARI cared for by Robert Gordon University and Visual Art & Design Festival on the website: Youth Festival, TechFest, North East Open Studios uncovered the stories of a former record shop. www.lookagainfestival.co.uk (NEOS), True North, DanceLive and sound. Stagecoach - no. 35 (every 30mins/hour) This approach has allowed the artists and #lookagain2017 Aberdeen City Centre - Banff designers to look at our city with fresh eyes, thoughtfully bringing new perspectives to the

Index Festival Hub p3 Map / Festival Overview Thank you P5 Commissions P17 Talks + Events + Workshops In the hub, filmmaker Fraser Denholm will show P19 Day of Play Location: a programme of short documentaries he was P21 Art Partners To our Look Again 2017 artists & designers, commissioned to make over the past 6 years, volunteers, interns, advisors, funders, 49 Belmont St, P25 Look Again @ Garthdee Campus capturing the wealth of creative and cultural art partners, venues, local businesses, RGU staff Aberdeen activity in Aberdeen. Projects showcased involve & students, individuals, family & friends AB10 1JS key cultural partners such as SMART, City Moves Dance Agency, Aberdeen International Youth Times: 10.00am - 5.00pm Festival and Aberdeen City Council. key Pop in to see us here before you start your look talk Look Again Team: around Look Again! family friendly ‘Nothing Ever Happens in 27 April – 1 May event Sally Reaper, Festival Director wheelchair Hilary Nicoll, Associate Director Our friendly festival assistants will be on hand Aberdeen’ // FREE // access to help with information and directions, and you Cultural events film archive workshop Claire Bruce, Festival Programme Co-ordinator 2010-2016 Belmont Filmhouse Duncan Cockburn, Festival Chair can stop for a break and some refreshments at indoors Belmont Street Natalie Kerr, Cultural Assistant any time during the festival, or to enjoy one of by Fraser Denholm Aberdeen our screenings or talks. outside exhibition Hatti Voar, Volunteer Co-ordinator

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1 2 3 4 Thomson & Craighead Here

London based visual artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead work across video, sound, sculpture, installation and online space. Through sensitive appropriation of images, texts, and data from online and archived sources, the artists produce generous, lyrical works that both exercise the dramatic conventions of Here is a custom road cinema and examine the changing socio-political structures of the information age. sign indicating how far the sign is from They present a new generative moving image work for Look Again called Control Room alongside two itself if pointing in the existing artworks, Aberdeen Wall (2010 – 2017) and Here (2013). direction of the North or South pole. In doing so www.thomson-craighead.net perhaps it reminds us that we are not isolated from the rest of the world but are in fact part Partner archive - of a closed system. The Aberdeen Harbour sign is fabricated to UK Board road furniture standards and displays distance in miles.

Aberdeen Wall

Aberdeen Wall is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a three-mile Control Room radius of the exhibition location, AB11 5BQ. During the run up to Look Again, publicly Control Room is the product of time the artists available status updates spent last summer researching the Aberdeen will be selected then Harbour Board archives where they found three published as an array carousels of 35mm slides, which had originally of typeset fly posters been part of a corporate audio-visual presentation that reveal the idle most likely made during the 1980s. There were mutterings of ourselves no sound recordings or documentation with the to ourselves as a form slides and so Jon and Alison have created their of concrete poetry. own fictional account to accompany them; an interview speculating on the events, times and places these images describe. Part interrogation

and part therapy session the dialogue never With thanks to: concludes. In fact each question, response and 27 April – 27 May image is endlessly being recombined randomly as 10.00 – 17:00 the work plays in its own attempt to consider how Peacock Visual Arts’ Project Room any artefact in any archive can mean quite different 11 Castlegate things at different times. // FREE //

5 6 The Listener Outreach + Education

As part of The Listener, Jason Nelson has been knowledge and skills and their creative and supported by Creative Learning at Aberdeen City critical thinking. Council to work with two city schools, Quarryhill Primary and Bridge of Don Academy, engaging Creative Learning support increased The Listener with the lives of young people living opportunities for learning and artistic and studying in Aberdeen. practitioners to work together to inspire children’s learning, and the wider project Over 100 pupils from P5 – S2 took part in practical around The Listener is a fantastic example of workshops, working together to create large this. scale sculptural forms. These forms reflect the trumpet-like shapes which are so central to The “All pupils at Bridge of Don Academy Listener but also stand as works in their own right, very much enjoyed the workshop and the giving a visual and collective voice to the identity department was buzzing. The artists were of these young people at this particular moment fantastic and lots of positive encouragement in the life of the city. and feedback were given to the pupils.” Art & Design Teacher, Bridge of Don Academy. As well as being a unique opportunity for pupils and teachers to engage with a contemporary Pupils work will be displayed in Central Library practising artist, Jason’s workshops have linked from 19 April - 1 May. in with each school’s Expressive Arts curriculum, developing pupils’ practical art & design

Partner archive - Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives

The Listener is a fantastical folly, a sort of sitootery Trades, and a wide range of community and interest (a place to sit out, an alcove, a place of retreat), a groups, the artist has collected histories and ‘machine for listening’. It appears to simultaneously urban myths that can be heard from the sculpture, hear, record and transmit fragments of narrative and suggestive of the collective consciousness or personal accounts emerging from the environment identity of a place, in this case, Aberdeen. in which it sits. With large trumpet-like shapes dominating its design, the viewer might recall Jason Nelson is an artist based in Dundee, with gramophone horns, ear trumpets or pre-radar a practice that would best be described as acoustic mirrors and listening devices that are ‘participatory’. His work is often a response to overtly connected to ideas of audio transmission context and exists as a result of direct engagement and reception; beautifully engineered and hand with people, their environments and their built, this sculpture is in part an attempt to visualize relationship to it. listening. www.jasonnelson.co.uk The Listener is perhaps more than a sculpture, it is both an object to be viewed and a space to be interacted with. Working with Aberdeen City & 27 April – 1 May Aberdeenshire Archives, The Seven Incorporated 10.00 – 17:00

With thanks to: Pocket Park, Union Terrace, Aberdeen

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7 8 The Doric Boule Granite

‘Since I have worked with stone a lot, I felt granite seemed too obvious, especially since it’s what many people associate with Aberdeen. After a while though I realised that maybe it’s the perfect material for this project. I could use my knowledge to show a new side of the material. Since the granite in Aberdeen is grey, many people aren’t fans of it. I thought about how to show it differently. By placing colourful granites from other places next to local ones I hope to give people a newfound appreciation of the material that surrounds them on a daily basis. ‘

Nick Ross Patner archive - Seven Incorporated Norden Grey Trades of Aberdeen

Nick Ross (1986) is a Swedish/Scottish designer, Emerging Designer Award (2014), Muuto Talent Award based in Stockholm, who graduated from Gray’s (2014), the Young Swedish Design Award (2011 & 2013) School of Art in 2008. His work looks at the role of and has been featured in Wallpaper*, Architectural history and storytelling in how we perceive the world Digest, Elle, The New York Times, Svenska around us, by working with themes such as place, Dagbladet, FRAME, Residence, Sight Unseen and origin and materiality. Dezeen amongst others. Notable projects to date include the White Lies series (2013 - 2016), A Mirror Look Again invited him to present a new public Darkly (2013) Soft Capital (2015 for Menu A/S). art work that is a contemporary response to the traditional skills and renowned materials of www.nckrss.com Aberdeen.

Starting with research at The Seven Incorporated 27 April - 1 May Trades, Nick connects ideas of local power and influence to a wider view of the world, creating a Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun 10.00 - 17.00 public meeting point in Marischal quad made from Mon 12.00 - 16.00 granites from around the world. Marischal College, Broad Street, The ‘Boule’ was an early form of council in Ancient Aberdeen Greece, a gathering of city elders that underpinned the birth of democracy. This work refers to local // FREE // suitable for all ages culture and dialect, while remaining resolutely outward-facing in times of change.

His studio has been awarded Architectural Digests Last of the Free, Palazzo Clerici - Milan 2016 9 10 Record Store Artists ‘Obstacle Soup - producing music that stays in your head’

Nicola Atkinson (Nadfly); Darren Banks; Chris Biddlecombe; Ziggy Campbell; Jim Colquhoun; Richie Cumming; Fiona Danskin; Roos Dijkhuizen; Jim Ewen; Katie Guthrie; Lois Green; Brian Hartley; Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir (Rafla); Ronnie Heeps; Alexander Hetherington; Stephen Hurrel; Kevin Hutcheson; Mike Inglis; Catrin Jeans (Working 9 to 5); Andy Kennedy; Jim Lambie; Amy Marletta; Chris McGeachie; Peter McGoldrick; Dougias Morland; Jason Nelson; Janie Nicoll; Jon Reid; Kevin Reid; Baldvin Ringsted; Kirsty Russell; Katie Shannon; Ross Sinclair; Ian Smith; Karen Vaughan; Allan Watson; Jonnie Wilkes.

The ‘Recording Room’ is a programme of supporting work and activities taking place Recording Room throughout the duration of the exhibition and Look Again Festival, including films, talks and Record Store is a curated project created by visual such an important role. Seventeen, the creative hub workshops. artists Chris Biddlecombe and Janie Nicoll, aka and exhibition space in Belmont Street was formerly Obstacle Soup. It is a hybrid fictional record store the much-loved One Up Records which closed in For further information please visit the website interior that is the result of a collaboration involving 2013. - www.lookagainfestival.co.uk the creation of over 60 fictional record cover artworks and poster works by a range of Scottish The team at Seventeen wish to acknowledge the artists each of whom have a strong interest in or history of this cultural institution and its importance connection to music making. to Aberdeen. Through Record Store there is the opportunity to send in your treasured memories of Previously shown in record shops, Record Store in One Up and become part of the exhibition. Please Record Store - artist talk Zine Taster Workshop with Aberdeen takes the records into the gallery, adds send these to [email protected] Film - High Fidelity artist Katie Guthrie work by 12 artists connected to the north east to the All text submissions will be printed and if sending 30 April A Record Store workshop existing 25 artists’ previous installations. images please make sure you have the permission 1h53m 14.00 – 16.00 //FREE// of the photographer. 15 – Contains strong 30 April 12.30 - 17.00 Exploring ideas of authorship and fiction, art and language Informal discussion // FREE // Ages 14 + merchandise, shared histories, and sound and exploring the cross-over performance interpreted through the visual, the 22 April - 20 May Cast: John Cusack, Iben between visual artists and 3 x 1hr 15min sessions: project places the artwork at the centre of the Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd musicians with a number 12.30 -13.45 action, while the music remains entirely in the Look Again: 27 – 1 May Louiso, Lisa Bonet. of artist contributors to 14.00 – 15.15 viewer’ s head. 10.00 – 17.00 (except Sunday 30 April 28 April // 18.00 the Record Store Project 15.30 – 16.45 Record Store is also a celebration of the 12.00 -17.00) tickets from Belmont Venue TBC Seventeen, 17 Belmont St. underground and the ‘grassroots’; the fertile ground // FREE // suitable for all ages Filmhouse (see the festival website) of cross-pollination between visual arts and music that has so influenced Scotland’s cultural scene, Seventeen, 17 Belmont Street, and in which independent record stores have played Aberdeen AB10 1JR 11 12 Seed Fund Ringtones by Janet McEwan

Look Again’s Seed Fund has supported new commissions by artists Craig Barrowman, Fiona McCubbin, The Carillon of bells in The Kirk of St Nicholas, or The Janet McEwan and Allan Watson, all creative practitioners with strong links to the North East. Using the city Mither Kirk, on Aberdeen’s Union Street, with its 48 as a starting point, they have produced projects ranging from performance and sound, to digital installation bells, is the largest of four carillons in Scotland and the and sculpture that you can catch in and around the city centre during Look Again. Seed Fund was a call out to heaviest in the UK, attracting enthusiasts from around artists for ideas that require new skills, explore new materials, or use methods or scales that are unfamiliar to the globe. Housed in the tower of the Kirk, beneath the them. Look Again provided funding and support so these ideas could be realised as part of the festival. The clock, the carillon is a musical instrument consisting of result is a series of engaging, reflective and resonant art works that animate the city in new ways. cast brass bells fixed to a frame, played by keyboards and pedals. The sonorous sound of the bells can be heard every day in the city centre when an automated system chimes the bells on the hour and the quarter-hour. On special occasions, sacred and secular, and at other times Through the Looking Glass 27 April - 1 May throughout the year, the carillon is played by hand by the Thu/Fri/Mon 12.00 - 12.30 by Craig Barrowman current and only Carilloneur in Aberdeen; Ronald Leith, Sat/Sun 15.00 - 15.30 who has been playing the instrument since 1978. Appearing in the city centre’s public places throughout St Nicholas Kirk the festival, this mobile sculpture at first seems like Uniting one of the historic sounds of Aberdeen city centre // FREE // suitable for all ages an optical illusion, or portal into another dimension. with contemporary everyday technology, artist Janet It will give people the chance to see the city, and McEwan has been working with local musicians Davy On each day of the festival, listen themselves, from a new and unusual perspective. Cattanach, Paddy Buchanan and Ronald Leith on a new out for the chiming bells in the collection of musical scores for the Carillon of Bells in the city centre, when Ronald Leith Craig Barrowman is a multimedia artist and curator Kirk of St. Nicholas on Union Street, that will be also be will give a 30minute performance originally from Aberdeen and now based in the downloadable as mobile phone ring tones from the Look of a selection of the Look Again Trossachs. Working in drawing, painting, photography, Again website: www.lookagainfestival.co.uk sculpture and performance, his work explores musical arrangements on The Kirk themes around communication and perception, with of St Nicholas carillon. 27 April - 1 May www.janetmcewan.com a particular interest in the politics of public space. 10.00 - 17.00 He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is a founding member of the collaborative curatorial Various locations across practice Stray Dog. Aberdeen city centre www.craigbarrowman.co.uk // FREE // suitable for all ages Weather the Storm by Fiona McCubbin

WEATHER THE STORM is a text-based artwork that Seeing is Believing reflects a sense of optimism and buoyancy, whilst also raising discussions about our current political and by Allan Watson economical issues on a local and national scale.

Most people, especially if you are a driver, will have Fiona has created an artwork for Look Again which acts come across VMS units. As an everyday piece of as a soft cue that individually and collectively as a city, technology, they are most commonly located by we can reach the end of an arduous situation without the side of a road and programmed to offer advice: too much harm or damage. The phrase also has a more (‘reduce speed’) to inform; (‘roadworks ahead’), or literal translation; relating to earlier times in Aberdeen to instruct; (‘turn left ahead’). The idea for ‘Seeing when the fishing industry was prosperous and working is Believing’ can be traced back to sitting in a long environments were harsh. queue of traffic on North Anderson Drive and looking at a VMS, wishing it was saying something other than Fiona McCubbin (b.1990, Perth) graduated from Gray’s 27 April - 1 May its mundane but necessary communication – oh for School of Art in 2013 and lives and works in Dundee. 10.00 - 17.00 something unexpected, something thought provoking, She has exhibited throughout Scotland and has been something poetic . . . . 27 April - 1 May selected for residencies at Artscape Gibraltar Point in Union Terrace Gardens, 10.00 - 17.00 Toronto, Canada and Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeen ‘Seeing is Believing’ is a text based artwork by Aberdeenshire. Fiona is a co-founder of Dundee Print Aberdeen based visual artist Allan Watson that St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen Collective and is also on the Committee for newly // FREE // suitable for all ages presents a collection of sayings and quotes by artists launched Dundee Ceramic Workshop. and thinkers which invite the viewer to contemplate // FREE // suitable for all ages how we perceive and discern the world around us. www.fionamccubbin.co.uk

13 14 Mags Gray graduated from Gray’s School of Art as a ceramic Look Inside - The Aberdeen Collection artist. She now creates pieces at her Wasps Studio beside Aberdeen Harbour. She designs and hand-builds both commercial and narrative pieces using porcelain and stoneware. Her work is influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi which is finding beauty in imperfection, irregularity and simplicity.

www.magsgray.com

Anne Marquiss studied Jewellery and 3D Design at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. She designs and makes work using traditional jewellery techniques creating one-off contemporary pieces in silver with accents of coloured leather. She develops simple forms, with a focus on surface decoration, using etching, hammering and oxidisation to give each piece a distinctive look.

www.annemarquissjeweller.co.uk

Gabrielle Reith is an artist, illustrator and maker based in Aberdeen and a graduate of Gray’s School of Art. Her work is the magical world of ‘Small Stories’ where every piece tells a tale. She makes elaborate pen & ink drawings that evolve into beautiful stories based on her & her children’s imagination, infused with traditional tales.

www.g-r-a.co.uk

Aubin Stewart, a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art is a jewellery designer and arts practitioner based in Aberdeen. Her designs are created using traditional silver-smithing techniques along with digital laser printing methods on materials such as wood and acrylic producing surface textures and repeat patterns.

www.aubeebopjewellery.com Look Inside is a design collective of Aberdeen- with students Maggie Thom and Amber Watson based makers, Anne Marquiss, Gabi Reith, Mags Gray and Dundee-based design consultant Andy Rice, and Aubin Stewart, who share a vision to promote working to enhance the visual impact of the contemporary craft to a wider audience. Aberdeen Collection. With Andy as mentor, they have worked together on the branding, packaging This year, Look Inside presents The Aberdeen and display, to help visitors best enjoy the work. Collection, a new range of hand-made jewellery, This project is part of Look Again’s programme of ceramics, illustration, apparel and more. Inspired by professional development for Aberdeen Creatives the historical blueprint of Aberdeen’s historic streets that is embedded across the Festival. and spaces, the pieces in the collection draw on street maps, the shapes and patterns of city districts, and their distinctive names; Mounthooly, Heathryfold, 27 April - 1 May Balnagask. The result is an original range of beautiful, 10.00 - 17.00 affordable collectables; contemporary souvenirs that celebrate the city to be treasured in the future. Bon Accord Shopping Centre

A partnership between Look Again and Gray’s // FREE // School of Art has resulted in an innovative project suitable for all ages 15 16 Processed Studio - Open House - Artists at The Anatomy VOICE - Painting exhibition by Pop-Up fashion Shop Matt Morris Rooms Talks + Events + Workshops www.mattmorrisartist.com opportunity to see inside 2nd year Gray’s School artist studios - Crow House of Art, Fashion & Textiles 28 - 30 April students 12.00 - 16.00 Projects, Stitch Studio, // FREE // Aberdeen Writers Studio and individual visual artists 27 April - 1 May 10.00 - 17.00 The Anatomy Rooms - Wayne Gallery 29 April 12.00 - 16.00 // FREE // Academy Shopping Hemingway Queen Street Centre, Schoolhill, The Anatomy Rooms - Aberdeen Studio Spaces

Treasure Taster Tours Look Again - Films at Awesome Tech workshop at Aberdeen Treasure Hub Belmont Martin Evans & Philip ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ Thompson 28 April Four time slots: UK 1945 / 1h28m 29 April 10.30/11.30/13.30/15.00 U – Contains mild peril Three time slots: tours last approx 1hr Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger 10.00 – 11.30 Livesey, Finlay Currie, 12.30 – 14.00 // FREE // 10 places per Pamela Brown, John 14.30 – 16.00 tour - booking essential Laurie. via eventbrite // FREE // 12 places 29 April / 16.00 per workshop - booking Aberdeen Treasure Hub tickets available from essential via eventbrite Northfield, Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Belmont Filmhouse

Tour of the Seven Look Again - Films at SCAN Artist talk - Incorporated Trades Belmont - In association with PALM of Aberdeen ‘From Scotland With Love’ personal + organisational 29 April Virginia Heath / UK 2014 perspectives on the 14.00 - 16.00 1h16m / U – Contains no important question of material likely to offend support Public Talk // FREE // 15 places - or harm - Made entirely of booking essential via archive film 30 April eventbrite 18.00 - 20.00 Wayne Hemingway, who co-founded fashion label 30 April - 16.00 // FREE // Red or Dead, and now runs multi-disciplinary design Trinity Hall, Trinity tickets available from agency HemingwayDesign will present a public talk Corner, Holburn Street Belmont Filmhouse The Anatomy Rooms at the city’s Belmont Filmhouse where he will discuss Launch Party Aberdeen AB10 6DA Queen Street his inspirational career to date and reveal how festivals can transform the places that we live in, fostering new Wayne Hemingway will bring some of and vibrant identities in our changing towns and cities. his rare soul, funk and disco records to All the Young Nudes - Disco Graveyard VAU Underdog on Thursday 27 April, so put Life Drawing Club x STACK Collective Pillow Talk: Collaborations The acclaimed designer will share his experience of on your dancing shoes and join us to Look Again Festival the festivals he has founded, including the Festival of celebrate the launch of Look Again 2017; bringing a splash of colour discussion featuring talks Making, The Festival of Thrift and the award-winning Wayne will be supported by Angela This drawing session to the fascinating and by Louise Scullion (Dalziel Vintage by the Sea – offering insight and engaging Michael and Double Barrel DJ Keith will feature music, beer, macabre archeological and Scullion) and Graeme in informal discussions about how the success of Fowler. models and some really history of the city Roger (Roger and Reid) festivals might be used to benefit Aberdeen. special pop-up pieces more to be announced! Ticket Price on the door - £5.00 from Look Again 1 May Public Talk: 27 April - 17.30 27 April 21.00 - 01.00 10.00 - 17.00 tickets £3 - available from: // FREE // booking essential - Underdog, Castlegate, Aberdeen 30 April - £7 on the door // FREE // www.pillowtalkcollab. tickets from Belmont Filmhouse 19.30 - 21.30 brownpapertickets.com All money raised from this event will be various locations across Belmont Filmhouse, festival hub - Screen 1 donated to CLAN Cancer Support Underdog, Castlegate Aberdeen City Centre 1 May / 18.00 - 20.00 Underdog, Castlegate 17 for full details on talks, events & workshops please visit the Look Again website www.lookagainfestival.co.uk 18 Look Again - Day of Play Peacock Visual Arts Peacock Visual Arts will be using a number of different fonts from Childrens Printing their collection of old wooden type faces. The letter blocks will be Workshop hand printed and used to create your very own posters. Or you can also make your own artistic statement just as you can see outside Mon 1 May the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh – (‘There will be no miracles 14.00 - 16.30 here’ – “Everything is going to be alright’) & Museums is delighted to be Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums // FREE // working with Look Again to host a series of events and Drop-In: no booking You can also develop pictures by using the letters pictorially, activities which introduce our city’s wonderful collections. Day of Creative Play required whether a landscape or an animal etc. The emphasis is on playing A Day of Creative Play for families at Aberdeen Maritime and experimenting with what the process can throw up. Museum includes facepainting, messy play, music and Peacock Visual Arts Mon 1 May stories and a chance to see and hold real museum 10.00 - 16.00 21 Castle St, Aberdeen Run by Peacock’s master printmaker Michael Waight. objects! A series of Treasure Taster Tours for adults at AB11 5BQ // FREE // the newly launched Aberdeen Treasure Hub will offer (booking required via eventbrite) a glimpse behind-the-scenes and a chance to find out more from the museum team. Ship Row, Aberdeen, AB11 5BY For families with primary aged children and pre-school aged children 2+ Citymoves Citymoves The Gruffalo Dance + Family Dance Workshop //see page 24 // Workshop Aberdeen Services Face painting Treasure Box with Ulianka

Discover more about the history of Aberdeen’s fire, 12 - 16.00 bus and other services by handling real museum // FREE // objects and artefacts with the Learning Team. Drop-In: no booking required Two time slots: suitable for all ages 10.00 - 11.00 13.00 - 14.00 // FREE // Drop-In: no booking required 6-12yrs Messy Play Music in Messy play and creative drawing the Museum session for all the family. An interactive musical story-telling adventure for A session led by an artist supporting young ones and their adults hosted in the upstairs young learners and their adults to play area of the Maritime Museum with magnificent with messy and creative materials and views of Aberdeen Harbour. create a simple artwork to take home. Three time slots: 13.30 - 14.30pm 10.00 - 11.00 // FREE // 20 places 11.30 - 12.30 2-5 yrs 13.30 - 14.30 15.00 - 16.00 // FREE // // FREE // 20 places 20 places available at each session 6-10yrs 2-5 yrs Booking is required via eventbrite for Booking is required via eventbrite for all sessions both sessions

19 20 The Suttie Arts Space will host a presentation of work by Mike Art Partners + Exhibitions Inglis, Graeme Roger and Charis Edward Wells who have been commissioned by GHAT to undertake an 18 month project titled Resonate:Disseminate. The project has been piloted by Anthony Schrag over the past 3 months between Inverurie Community Hospital and Dr Gray’s in Elgin, and was set up to explore the following ideas:

LOOK OUT for a series of pop-up portraits from the magnificent collection • What is the potential of a hospital as a public building to be a of Aberdeen Art Gallery as you explore the Schoolhill and Belmont Street cultural focal point? area. The Inspiring Art and Music redevelopment of the Art Gallery and • What is the potential of arts practice in a hospital to create positive Cowdray Hall is helping to create a vibrant cultural quarter for Aberdeen, cultural engagement opportunities for the visiting public? its surrounding communities and visitors to the North East. As you walk • How can we create a programme of arts delivery in community north along Belmont Street, admire the stunning copper-clad rooftop healthcare facilities which challenges the perceived model of an arts extension which is emerging from behind the scaffolding. Designed by organisation within hospital accommodation? internationally-acclaimed Hoskins Architects, it is both a symbol of the Art Gallery’s rejuvenation and a bold, exciting new architectural presence in The project is now in its second phase and the exhibition in The the heart of our city. Suttie Arts Space will be formed from Mike, Graeme and Charis’s Resonate:Disseminate initial impressions of the physical environment of these two sites. This Mike Inglis / Graeme As the £30m transformation of the building continues, Aberdeen Art presentation will form an initial bearing to the project before it develops Roger + Charis Edward Gallery & Museums is delighted to be working with Look Again and our over the next 18 months, and as the three artists become more Wells business neighbours to bring these striking portraits from our collections embedded across the two venues. to our city streets. 14 April – 7 May There will be a performance followed by 24hrs // FREE // LOOK OUT For all the latest news, including details of how you can be part of this a workshop by Charis Edward Wells on ambitious project for Aberdeen by making a donation to the Inspiring Art Sunday 30th April at 2pm in The Suttie Arts Space. by Aberdeen Art Gallery The Suttie Arts Space, and Music fundraising campaign, please go to: // FREE // no booking required. & Museums Aberdeen Royal www.inspiringartandmusic.tumblr.com 27 April - 1 May Infirmary, Foresterhill www.ghat-art.org.uk // FREE // Aberdeen AB25 2ZN You can also donate to Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Development Various sites in the Art Trust (SCIO No. SC045363) by text. Gallery neighbourhood. Text AAGM001 to 70970 to donate £5 now or visit www.aagm.co.uk. See if you can find them To donate £10 text AAGM001 to 70191. Maralyn Reed Wood is exhibiting her all! porcelain figures inspired by the work of fashion designer Alexander MacQueen Image: Felicity, George Henry at Gallery Heinzel throughout May. RA RSA c1916 Alongside Maralyn’s work the exhibition Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections features paintings by Edinburgh based Alan McGowan and Glasgow based Maralyn Reed Wood Margaretann Bennett RSW. The exhibition Exhibition seeks to challenge the viewer to look closely at the fabric and textures of 29 April – 3 June Maralyn’s porcelain figures. The suggestion // FREE // To celebrate the Year of sumptuous and luxurious dresses is undermined by the ‘fabric’ made up of It all Started With of History, Heritage and Gallery Heinzel a Still Life sometimes sinister objects. Archaeology, the Look Again 24 Thistle Street Festival, in conjunction with Aberdeen AB10 1XD 22 April – 4 June Robert Gordon University Art www.galleryheinzel.com Daily: 11.00 - 17.00 and Heritage Collections and Duff House Historic Environment Scotland Banff AB45 3SX presents a time capsule of art Tel: 01261 818 181 works and artefacts reflecting PALM During the Look Again Festival The the history and heritage of Group exhibition Anatomy Rooms will host PALM, a Exhibition is included in Gray’s School of Art. admission to Duff House group exhibition showcasing work by 27 April 18.00 - 21.00 Caitlyn Main, Fiona McCubbin, Lauren Full price - £7.10 Gray’s School of Art first Concession - £5.70 (opening night) Milton, Kirsty Russell and Tako Taal. opened its doors in November Child - £4.30 28 - 30 April This body of work has been informed by Exhibition only £4.40 1885 and continues to make 12.00 - 16.00 the group’s conversations surrounding a valuable contribution to the // FREE // support, balance and care during a economy and culture in the series of short residencies held at www.duffhouse.org.uk North East and beyond. www.rgu.ac.uk/about/art-and-heritage-collections The Anatomy Rooms, Peacock Visual Arts over the last year. Image: Kirsty Russell Queen Street, Aberdeen

21 22 Citymoves @ Look Again Citymoves All performances Dance Trail completely free – simply check the Dance Sun 30 April Trail Map on 14.00 - 17.00 www.citymoves.org.uk // FREE // and turn up. Citymoves’ purpose is to make a difference through dance in Citymoves the North East of Scotland. We aim to forge strong partnerships, See Citymoves’ dynamic and diverse community talk / brand launch / increase participation, develop audiences, nurture talent and performance groups in locations across the city performace place Citymoves on the international dance map. We offer a centre, linked by a gentle stroll. variety of classes in our studio and in venues across Aberdeen Sat 29 April City Centre and work in partnership with schools, care homes Follow the Dance Trail from the much-loved 15.00 - 20.00 and community groups to deliver a range of targeted projects Citymoves studio, top floor at Triple Kirks to the // FREE // and activities. We run professional classes, residencies and emerging new arts hub of the Anatomy Rooms, workshops as part of our commitment to supporting dancers moving from Contemporary to Break Dance along The Anatomy Rooms and choreographers and are committed to creating performance the way! Queen Street, opportunities, producing and promoting new dance work, Aberdeen AB10 1AN including the annual DanceLive Festival of contemporary dance. Completing the Dance Trail will be an informal Ceilidh at the Anatomy Rooms, with dancing for photo © Sid Scott: See Imagine Define everyone to join in.

Face to Face Welcome to Citymoves Join Citymoves Dance Launch of new logo and Website Citymoves Face To Face is a national informal meeting Agency for a fun dance and The Gruffalo Dance play workshop aimed at for artists to meet, eat and connect In the 30th anniversary year of Citymoves, and its Workshop facilitated by Cultured Mongrel. Tailored first as an independent SCIO, the staff and board of families and children under 5, exploring the story of The for Look Again Festival this meeting will Citymoves invite you to join them in celebrating both (for families and under 5s) specifically explore how movement and their history and their future. Gruffalo. A fun exploration art can interact and the systems we need of the story through dance, Mon 1 May creativity and mask decoration to make this happen. Travel bursaries are Please join us for the unveiling of our brand new logos 11.00 - 13.00 available, see the Citymoves brochure and for Citymoves and DanceLive festival alongside the will be followed by snacks and // FREE // playtime. website for more information. new website. booking required

15.00 -17:30 // Free // 18.00 - 19.00: unveiling of the logo and website Come one, come all! Come do Citymoves Dance Studio, your best Gruffalo Dance! Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Rooms Museum Room, Anatomy Rooms Top Floor, Triple Kirks, with drinks, nibbles and conversation Aberdeen. To book contact: [email protected] as part of Day of Play or phone 01224 611486 photo © Sid Scott: See Imagine Define Cloud Mushrooms Performance by Ultimate Dancer and Fritz Welch Citymoves The workshops would start with a gentle warm-up and then Cloud Mushrooms is a modular performance structure Family Dance Workshop move onto the creative part, where there will be possibilities to that develops in response to the site, content and play and create dance material based on W-hat about? A brand audience. In this version of the piece Ultimate Dancer (for Children 6 + and their new theatre piece for children by Fuora Dance Project. and Fritz Welch will run loose through a shadow at family, with a special attention night; pull up all the floorboards and sift through the to their grandparents.) The workshop explores movement, sound, colours and dust underneath; exhale hopelessness until utter textures in a playful atmosphere, through a series of tasks and depletion; imitate thunderclaps with even louder Mon 1 May experiments. All this will lead to the idea that we are never repercussions; shudder at the thought of your tears 14.00 - 15.30 too old to play and create even if the participants do not have and stand on each other’s shoulders while consulting // FREE // previous dance experience. history. They will take clues from flowers and plants booking required to transcribe into Morse code for heartbeats. They will This is for children, parents, grandparents to dance together in a dance like snakes on a legless sunrise. And they will Citymoves Dance Studio, Top fun workshop. transmute awfulness from the evilest ills. Floor, Triple Kirks, Aberdeen. To book contact: [email protected] 19.00 // Free // as part of Day of Play or phone 01224 611486 Dissection Room, Anatomy Rooms Fritz Welch

23 24 Talks + Events + Exhibitions

STACK Artist Collective Jazz - The Doric Suite The Aawye Projections Go Green: Cycle tour - T-shirt printing Jon Reid aka Mood of Gray’s School of Art to workshop composed by Collapse Sir Ian Wood Building to Richard Michael Aberdeen City Centre & print designs inspired and performed by real time visual back to campus. by the Look Again jazz students and response to The Doric Look Again @ Garthdee Campus Festival onto a t-shirt musicians from the Suite adding a new 22 April 10.00 - 11.00 to take home local area and around dimension to the // FREE // BYOB Scotland, along performance 20 - 21 April //Free// with a vocal set by 10 bikes available on 20 - 24 April 2017 Thu - 13.00 - 16.00 Aberdeenshire vocalist Food available from request - 30 bookable Fri - 14.00 - 16.00 Elaine Crighton Melt spaces via eventbrite

Reception area 21 April 18.00 - 20.30 Sir Ian Wood Building suitable for ages various sites across Sir Ian Wood Building // Free // Amphitheatre 16 - 25 Robert Gordon University talks, events & exhibitions continues on page 30... Garthdee Road Aberdeen

Look Again Festival kicks off withLook Again @ Garthdee Campus, a programme of exhibitions, performance, films, talks, jazz and workshops at RGU.

Two major new commissions by prominent visual artist duos Pester & Rossi and Smith/Stewart will animate the campus. Invited to respond to the University’s Art and Heritage collection, the artists have produced works that trigger new ways to engage with the collection and have inspired a whole programme of participation across the campus.

This is Look Again’s first full campus programme, connecting the university sites, schools and facilities, engaging with staff and students, showcasing research and creating a platform to engage with the local community. These projects support creative practitioners at all stages of their careers, and are embedding creativity into other disciplines across the university.

For full information about any of the talks, Festival activity will be taking place across a variety of buildings, indoors and outdoors on the Garthdee workshops, exhibitions or events visit the Look Campus. All buildings are accessible by car, bike or on foot and parking is available, however this is Again website www.lookagainfestival.co.uk restricted on Thursday, Friday and Monday until 16.00.

25 26 INFINITY INTENSIF Pester + Rossi Pester & Rossi, Fritz Welch + Stasis

Join the INFLATO Operation Team for the official INFLATO - OPTICAL IMAGE INTENSIFIER launch. The INFLATO Operators will be on site launching the machines into full high performance activation. There is no instruction manual. There may be jump starts and loud rumbles as the INFLATO team inflate the gizmos, maximise the widgets and manoeuvre the globules using vigorous invigoration and the power of hot air.

20 April 18.00 - 21.00

// Free // suitable for all ages

Sir Ian Wood Building, Amphitheatre

Inflato - Optical Image Inflato - Optical Intensifier Activation Image Intensifier

Welcome to the INFLATO - OPTICAL IMAGE INTENSIFIER! Strap on your air power pack and join the INFLATO Operators in A series of site specific inflatable and wearable sculptures activating, inflating and investigating produced for Look Again Festival 2017 in response to the INFLATO - OPTICAL IMAGE artefacts discovered in the Robert Gordon University Art & INTENSIFIER on campus at RGU. Heritage Collections.

Taking inspiration from a set of obsolete measuring and optical instruments from the early pharmacy, engineering and domestic science schools, Pester & Rossi have created 21 April new objects which will be activated on site at RGU. 20 - 24 April 12.00 - 15.00

The INFLATO - OPTICAL IMAGE INTENSIFIER will be blowing Thu/Fri/Mon // Free // up, swelling and expanding through campus, exploring and 10.00 - 22.00 suitable for all ages playing with ways of looking and seeing. Sat/Sun 10.00 - 20.00 various sites across the Ruby Pester and Nadia Rossi are a collaborative duo // FREE // RGU Garthdee Campus based in Glasgow whose work spans sculpture, installation suitable for all ages and performance. Their work crosses the physical and ephemeral, encouraging and challenging the viewer to Sir Ian Wood Building observe, and at times to participate in the artwork. 27 28 Smith/Stewart Talks + Events + Exhibitions

Contextual Responses: ...Journeys End I Just Walk Around the social life of things Craig Ellis & Cameron by MA Students from Campbell observe and by photographer Gray’s School of Art join in the journey of Jon Nicholson collecting 20 - 24 April // Free // 20 April Thu/Fri/Mon 10.00-18.00 20 - 24 April //Free// 12.00 - 13.00 Sat: 10.00-16.00 Thu/Fri/Mon // Free // all welcome Sun: closed 10.00 - 22.00 Sat/Sun 10.00 - 20.00 Lecture Theatre ABS222 Georgina Scott Suitable for all ages Aberdeen Business Sutherland Learning Sir Ian Wood Building School Centre Foyer area

I Just Walk Around - I Just Walk Around - ‘At Your Leisure’ talk Portfolio Reviews with A Master Class with with Guest Speaker Dr photographer Jon photographer Jon Amelia Hunt (Aberdeen Nicholson Nicholson University) & RGU Sport In response to ‘Re-hang’ 20 April 20 April by Smith/Stewart 13.30 - 14.30 14.30 - 16.00 // Free // // Free // 21 April 10.00 - 12.00 Booking required via Booking required via // FREE // eventbrite - 12 places eventbrite - 12 places booking via eventbrite

Room GA49 Room GA49 Meet at Gray’s School of Gray’s School of Art Gray’s School of Art Art - talk at RGU Union

Zine Workshop What is Creative Making Meaning - Practice? Talk by Jason HATCH Cameron Campbell & create a unique zine/ Nelson & Laura Reilly Craig Ellis: take on the - how to approach poster to take home and role of the curator and display decisions, navigate post find your own stories Re-hang education and engage or within ‘...Journeys End’ instigate opportunities. 22 April 11.30 - 13.30 // Free // 21 April 16.00 - 18.00 Booking required via 21 April 13.00 - 14.00 // Free // booking // Free // eventbrite - 30 places required via eventbrite 16 - 25 years 15 spaces / ages 12 - 17 Lecture Theatre SB42 Stephanie Smith and Eddie Stewart are Garthdee House Annexe Sir Ian Wood Building partners and collaborators who have Re-hang ‘bare’ - pop-up shop Sir Ian Wood Building Amphitheatre worked together as Smith/Stewart for Smith/Stewart by Gray’s textiles 25 years. They push the possibilities students FragMENTAL - Cameron RGU Mental Health On Looking: #Buka of collaboration, engaging the 20 - 24 April Campbell & Craig Ellis: Movie Monthly presents: Sue Fairburn, Sally viewer with ideas about the nature of the pop-up shop, in // FREE // use a fragment from Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed Thomson & Shane Strachan relationships, the body and its context, response to ‘Re-hang’ ‘...Journeys End’ as work ‘My Neighbour - a lecture sharing the interdependence, separation and by Smith/Stewart will Thu/Fri/Mon inspiration to create Totoro’ experience of a diverse ultimately, mortality. 10.00 – 18.00 sell accessories: hats, surface decoration arts and health collective badges, bags and 22 April between twin cities: Proposing an intervention to make an zines Sat: 10.00 - 16.00 22 April 12.00 - 13.00 14.00 // Free // Aberdeen and Bulawayo, exhibition from Gray’s School of Art // Free // booking film is rated PG Zimbabwe; ‘Buka’ – painting collection, the duo will re-hang Sun: closed 22 April 10.00 - 16.00 required via eventbrite meaning ‘look at’ in Zulu selected life paintings; re-interpreting 15 spaces / ages 5 - 11 Room N118 the tradition of the nude in a potentially Gray’s School of Art Gray’s School of Art Sir Ian Wood Building 24 April 12.00 // FREE // provocative installation. foyer exhibition space Sir Ian Wood Building N118 Sir Ian Wood Building

29 for full details on these events please visit the Look Again website - www.lookagainfestival.co.uk 30 festival guide designed by SMART www.wearesmart.co.uk