Brief encounters
Burgoyne, Greig (2019) Brief encounters. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Performance, Public art, Site-specific work]
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Edinburgh Arts Festival in collaboration with Deirdre McLeod.
Live 8 hour intervention on 5 August 2019 within a square mile area of central Edinburgh.
As a means to navigate the tourist gaze; a mass of people at festival time in Edinburgh who move in a mass, unclear where they are going, or what they will see as they contract, disperse and meet again drifting from one spectacle to the next. Into this mix 4 people, starting from different points in the city, with a very clear purpose to weave in and through that mass.
Burgoyne and 3 colleagues from the department of geography at the University of Edinburgh each select one colour, and follow anyone wearing at least one item of clothing of that colour until the person they are following moves beyond the square mile designated as the boundary of the project. Burgoyne wearing a blue t-shirt seeks to follow people in blue, should he pass someone going in the opposite direction while following another person wearing blue he can choose to change route and follow them instead. Each member of the project documents those encounters throughout the day. The route Burgoyne's was led along, like his colleagues, was mapped throughout the the day using tracking technology. Coincidentally, people he lost while following were re-encountered and then re-followed, albeit elsewhere in Edinburgh later that day, paradoxically while he was following another blue wearer. The project will be the subject of an exhibition which collates our findings in 2020 in Edinburgh.
The project findings will culminate in a presentation of work in 2020 within the University of Edinburgh.
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