Less than a week to STATE OF PLAY – CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE IN SCOTLAND TODAY

STATE OF PLAY – CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE IN SCOTLAND TODAY.

Reflections on Contemporary Art and Culture in Scotland today by eminent artists, critics and curators who live and work abroad. Themes range from explorations of dual identity, to living locally and engaging globally.

Speakers include Douglas Gordon, Berlin, Peter Hill, Melbourne, Margaret Hunter, Berlin, Thomas Lawson, Los Angeles, Jim Mooney, London and video presentations by Neal Ascherson, London and Liz Ann MacGregor, Sydney.

There will be a performance of spoken, one-minute manifestos by a wide range of artists between 10-00 and 10-30. We regret that latecomers cannot be admitted during this time.

At the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland.
On Saturday 2 April 2011 from 9-45 to 4-30
Registration from 9-15 to 9-45.

Tickets: £10. £5 concessions.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the Weston Link info desk at the NGS or by telephone on 0131 624 6560 between 9-30 and 4-30 Monday to Friday with credit or debit card. It is recommended that tickets are purchased in advance as our previous Symposium sold out and therefore may not be available on the day.

For more information please email us