Art will truly be brought to the people during a unique three-day event in Dundee on May 10,11 and 12.
Burning Bush 2: Doing Time features 15 UK and international artists who, in their quest to prompt a lively city-wide debate about the future of work, leisure and time, will rely on public input in both the research and production of their work.
Venues for the performance and experimental art will include the top of the Dundee Law, City Square and the city's picturesque waterfront, resulting in chance meetings between the artists and their audience.
Artists include New York's Coco Fusco, musically-influenced Paul Rooney and the boundary-breaking FANCLUB collective.
Doing Time artist in residence Roddy Hunter will take his audience on a Dundee sightseeing tour with a difference, examining the limits put on us by the authorities while we are in public spaces.
"Lazy student" Richard Dedomenici will carry a placard advertising that he is "too apathetic to get a job", business journalist/design consultant/artist Lucy Kimbell will run "Jobs for the Future" workshops to find out about just how people would choose to spend their working life, while Luci Eyers will explore the forbidden world of cyber-skiving - inspired by the hours the nation's workforce loses surfing the Internet.
For more information, visit www.burningbush.info or contact project manager Lisa Stewart on 01382 348061
Note to Editors:
Burning Bush 2: Doing Time features of series of artists presentations
and new commissions and a programme of films and seminars in galleries and
non-art spaces around Dundee, aimed at sparking lively debate on
contemporary society and modern art.
The Burning Bush partnership was born in 2000 when local arts organisations came together to bring live and experimental art into the public eye in Dundee.
The first Burning Bush event took place in 2001 and comprised seven performances by UK and international artists, hosted by Cooper Gallery and Dundee Contemporary Arts.
This pilot programme demonstrated how successfully such a partnership could operate in Dundee, despite working with modest funds. Following this initial success an active working group was established to develop and manage an ongoing programme of Burning Bush events.
Burning Bush is a partnership between Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone, the University of Dundee's Visual Research Centre based at DCA, Dundee City Council's Arts and Heritage, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Generator Projects, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Enterprise Tayside and New Media Scotland.