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Mare Tralla Performances

Mare Tralla paints in Edinburgh

ARC Projects presents live performances by artist Mare Tralla as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and the exhibition Mutatis Mutandis, Embassy Annex, Edinburgh.

Mare Tralla will undertake a series of live easel painting performances, ‘tracking the movements’ of CCTV cameras throughout Edinburgh. The artist evokes this 16th century tradition, which set painters free from the constraints of working on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist. Details of times and places are below. Facebook users please see also the event page on Facebook.

If you are out and about in Edinburgh you may well spot her at the locations listed below:

25.08 – 10.00-12.00 Waverley Station

26.08 – 11.00 – Nightingale Way
- 17.30 Conference Square, Bread Street

27.08 – 11.00 in front of Haymarket Station
- 16.00 Princes Street

28.08 – 11.00 around the Parliament
- 16.00 by Scottish National Portrait Gallery

29.08 – 11.00 in front of National Gallery Complex
- 12.30 – Calton Road

30.08 – 12.00 – York Place
- 13.00 – North St Andrew Street

31.08 – 12.00 – Edinburgh College of Art, preview of Edinburgh paintings
- 16.30 – Catch Mare from the comfort of The Embassy Bus tour which leaves ECA at 13.30. See The Embassy gallery website for details.

Mare Tralla in Edinburgh

Mare Tralla, exhibition view in ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, Embassy Annex, Edinburgh. Paintings from ‘Protected’ series, 2008, installation, oil on canvas, cardboard, dimensions variable.

ARC Projects presents a residency, exhibition and live performances by artist Mare Tralla as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.

Our every movement and action today seems to be subject to surveillance. What do we need in order for public and private life to thrive? How can we define spaces that are absolutely free from the prying eyes of officialdom and others? Setting out to explore these and other notions of privacy, security and surveillance, the artist skillfully employs various media and styles, ranging from painting and video, live performance and photography to sculpture.

Mare Tralla’s residency in Edinburgh is accompanied by an exhibition of paintings from her ‘Protected’ series as part of Mutatis Mutandis, at The Embassy Annex, Edinburgh College of Art, 2-31 August.

She will also undertake a series of live easel painting performances, ‘tracking the movements’ of CCTV cameras throughout Edinburgh. The artist evokes this 16th century tradition, which set painters free from the constraints of working on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist.

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