ARTIST: John Smith
WHERE: Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
WHEN: Saturday 14.00-15.30 & 18.00-20.00 and Sunday 14.00-15.30 & 18.00-20.00
White Hole brings together the artist’s recollections of two trips to Eastern Europe, before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall: “The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was first elected in Britain. I first visited the former East Germany in 1997, eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and a few months after Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ government was elected. Recalling these experiences many years later, White Hole questions our imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems, mirroring its narrative through its form. London and Warsaw, 1980. London and Leipzig, 1997. Where now?” Looped 7 min installation.