Wave = a long canvas of 22 flat screens in a row under the copper-clad dome

* In his unassumingly brilliant film Dial M for Murder (1954), Alfred Hitchcock uses the intermission as a suspense device intensifying the thrill of the perfect murder drama. In this exhibition contemporary artists with diverse attitude to the cinematic, approach the intermission as an opportunity to dwell upon our perceptions of abstract and conceptual art – art which is almost embedded into the urban architecture all around us.

View 11 short 22-channel artists’ works showing in a cinematic loop which cycles every hour. These artists’ films and videos were commissioned and acquired as part of the permanent Horsecross collection of contemporary art between 2005-07

1. EYE SHADES Tom Moody (USA)

2. FIREBALLS Greg Miller (Scotland)

3. SOME HOUSES HAVE POOLS Michael-Bell Smith (USA)

4. INFLUX DANCE Joanna Kane (Scotland)

5. OPTIDISK Tom Moody (USA)

6. HYPOMANIA Sam Spreckley (Scotland)

7. THE INVISIBLES Alisa Andrasek (USA) 8. DOUBLE CENTRIFUGE Tom Moody (USA)

9. SHUTTER Graham Robertson (Germany/Scotland)

10. MELTER 2 Takeshi Murata (USA) 11. DE-STRUCTURES Prema Murthy (USA)

Threshold artspace is about positioning Perth and Scotland within the contemporary art world at largethrough commissioning, exhibiting, publishing and collecting.

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INTERMISSION*15 Sept-10 Nov 08 exhibition guide an exhibitoin about the in-between spaces and the intervals where art thrives curated by Iliyana Nedkova

open Mon-Sat10am-7pm Sun 12-7pm or late on performance evenings admission always free free curator’s tours by appointment at the box office

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Threshold artspace is Scotland’s first dedicated gallery for digital public art, with nine unique spaces presenting a varied programme of artists’ films, videos, games, text, photography, performance, light, sound and software art.

‘One of Perth Concert Hall’s biggest attractions is Threshold artspace –

the innovative exhibition space in the glass-fronted foyer of the hall’ Auditoria

Flush = a trail of 8 small screens tucked away in the public toilets

COVERS | 20 min loop Janek Schaefer (UK)

A self-portrait of the artist better known as ‘an architect of found soundscapes’ who was nominated for the British Composer of the Year Award in 2007. An avid record hunter, here Schaefer portrays himself through an avalanche of LP covers picked up from his collection. I listen to vinyl ergo sum. For his latest vinyl obessession Schafer says: I use vinyl in my music and exhibitions quite a bit. So people used to say, ‘Oh you are a DJ’ and I had to patiently explain that I don’t play other people’s records. I make my own! Until now! What happened? Last year I grabbed a box of charity records from a festival stall and began to force the stragglers to dance and buy the records. DJ Dedication was born... www.audioh.com

Intermission is produced by Horsecross for Threshold artspace featuring works acquired for the Horsecross Collection with the assitance of Scottish Arts Council and other funders.

Stage = a playground for live art with larger-than-life projections, a camera and a screen left of the wave

SUN CLOCK Olle Essvik (Sweden)

Freshly nominated for the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica 2008 in the Community Art category, here Olle Essvik offers us to follow the sun as it rises and sets over Perth in real time day after day. See the solar brush strokes in the sky as yellow horizontal bands pushing the darkness on the screen. Think of minimalism, locative media and software in art. Download this constantly moving painting as a free art game for your mobile phone and use Essvik’s Sun Clock to work out the time of day without looking at your watch. Turn yourself into a walking clock! http://jimpalt.org/sunclock

VIDEO OPTICA + WHERE WILL THE STARS LIVE + IMAGINE PEACE Katja Loher (Switzerland/USA)

If the color black runs out where will the stars live? Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions, 1973A trilogy of artist’s films from 2006-08 specifically created to be projected on giant floating spheres. Weather balloon meets motion choreography meets Pablo Neruda in this kaleidescope of text and image. Some of the 74 poems and 316 playful questions about life, death, nature and rebirth, which Neruda wrote in the last year of his life, come alive. www.katjaloher.com

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Threshold artspace Perth Concert Hall Horsecross Mill Street Perth PH1 5HZ UK

0044 (0) 845 612 6322 info@horsecross.co.uk www.horsecross.co.uk

open daily up to 14 hours

admission FREE

Welcome = interactive soundscape doorway of 16 sensors and 8 speakers

LYREBIRD REDUX Nick Janaway + Eleftheria Mylona + Rebecca Prentice + Sean Williams (Scotland)

Use your body movements to detect six sonic landscapes from the ordinary to the extraordinary created in partnership with Scottish Language Dictionaries – the nation’s resource for the Scots language. Go behind the scenes to find an orchestra tuning for a concert or have a game of ping pong. Visit the farmyards of Perthshire or hear the plethora of languages spoken by visitors from near and far. Enjoy the glitch aestehtics of the broken record or let your ears draw you back to your childhood.

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