the DEVIL and ME

the DEVIL and ME is a video project in collaboration with sound designer Dan Gorman, as a single channel projection and completed in October 2009.

The video is a visual narrative driven by its music which explores the materiality of the everyday working environment of the Quechuan miners of Bolivia. It highlights their relationship with the underground deity Pachumama, underage workers, dangers of toxic and flammable gases, and mineral transport within the mine.

Video by Aaron McCloskey

Music / Sound Design by Dan Gorman

the DEVIL and ME from Aaron McCloskey on Vimeo.

Some Funding made possible with the financial assistance of the Dundee Visual Arts Award Scheme.

Upcoming exhibitions:

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art

transitstation, Copenhagen, April, 2010

Past exhibitions

Cupar Arts Festival October,2009

Not for profit forest cafe exhibition and event space celebrates ten years of art, music, and food in Edinburgh.

forest X from Aaron McCloskey on Vimeo.

The Strickland Distribution is an artist-run group supporting the development of innovative and independent research in art-related and non-institutional practices. Art-related includes research forms that directly implement artistic practice as a means of research method. Non-institutional includes forms of grass-roots histories, social enquiries and projects developed outside of academic frameworks and by groups and individuals normally excluded from such environments. The research will be developed through commissioning of new projects, dissemination in publications, exhibitions and events, networking to build links between groups and practitioners internationally, and evaluation through public discussion and peer review. The Strickland Distribution will operate in the public sphere and seek to stimulate and contribute to public education, discourse and debate around the topics and themes addressed through its projects.

http://www.strickdistro.org

March 2009

As part of a new serries of exhibitions, Derek, Scott and Aaron open the doors to their flat to show new work. First in the series is Mickey Mallett.

Despite the spread of the internet and ’social network’ technologies, physical spaces still provide the main foundations upon which social activity takes place and develops. It appears as though the pressures and demands upon physical space are increasing rather than decreasing as the creation and exploitation of social activity becomes an ever more important part of the contemporary economy.

The Free Social Foundations project explores the current condition of spaces of free and open assembly in our cities, relating those spaces created by the public themselves to those created for public use. This is produced through maps which bring together information on spaces of assembly in different cities. The information is gathered from interviews and conversations with local residents and users of the spaces, along with background materials, and workshop sessions. Information can also be entered directly into the maps on this website.

http://www.freesocialfoundations.org/

http://www.futuresonic.com/08/art/fsf/