David Yu talk as part of Mapping the Future: Public Art in Scotland Events Series

Please click the link to listen to this artist's talk by David Yu about his project for Nine Trades of Dundee and how his work as a whole has developed through projects in the public realm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYsY8N0K0eY

John Dummett essay in Nine Trades of Dundee

We commissioned the writer and artist John Dummett to write about the Nine Trades of Dundee project for our publication. He has looked to contextualise Nine Trades of Dundee within the wider art spheres the project functions within.

Here is how he opens his essay:

“We will never be able to know what we give”, I begin with a quote, from a letter exchanged between two artists Lygia Clark[i] and Helio Oiticica in 1968. This line caught my attention during my research for this essay, as it voices one of the recurring characteristics of participatory artworks, namely that the artist will never be sure of the extent and effect of their actions upon others.

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[i] Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, were Brazilian artists who founded in the 1960’s, along with Ivan Serpa, the Neo-Concretist group. 

NINE TRADES OF DUNDEE PUBLICATION LAUNCH///

We will be promoting the Nine Trades of Dundee publication in several ways one of the first being at a drinks reception at DCA on Wednesday 20 October at 5pm in Centrespace.
Everyone is welcome at this event and we especially want to invite all those who helped in the project to come and celebrate with us!

Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.

Here are another couple of images from the publication:

Nine Trades of Dundee publication - intro text

Our Nine Trades of Dundee publication is well underway. We asked Jenny Brownrigg, who co-initiated the project, to write an introductory text for the book. She has written an introduction which shows some of the life and reasoning behind the project. She used a quotation from writer Malcolm Gladwell...

‘Curiosity about the interior life of other people’s day-to-day work is one of the most fundamental of human impulses’
‘What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures’, Malcolm Gladwell, Penguin Books, 2010

Jenny speaks about the inspiration behind the idea coming from past work with artists, understanding of professional development for students and getting to know the organisation The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee.

Here are two pages from the publication: