Intimations

To mark Scotland’s failure to qualify for another European Championships Alec is represented in herz:rasen at Kunstlerhaus (Vienna, until July 6), where he is exhibiting Labanotation: the Archie Gemmil goal (2002), a collaboration with Robin Gillanders.

Alec’s next exhibition is, thoughts within thoughts, a duet with Pravdoliub Ivanov at Arc projects (Sofia) opening late June.

Recent publications include two fields of wheat seeded with a poppy-poem, a poem commentary describing this Milton Keynes Gallery off-site project. A digital animation with mesostics and photographs can be viewed on-line.

your name here (2004) was included in the recent exhibition Neon, at the National Glass Centre. Another neon, commissioned by the White Lights Festival (Derry), held within pure light was installed on the historic Guildhall (site of the Saville enquiry into ‘Bloody Sunday’). And Northern Canon awarded Alec their first major North-East art commission for a neon circle poem, night for day, is now installed in Trinity Gardens (Newcastle).

A new audio is available: the printed path, a poetry reading at Tate Britain for Film and Video Umbrella.