Aberdeen Urban Atlas Online Gallery

Building an Atlas of Urban Aberdeen as a temporary installation at Limousine Bull and an ongoing virtual presence with contributions by Bill Thompson, Charlie McCulloch, Duncan Hart, Jim Ewen, Justin Orde, New Social Art School featuring Eva Merz & Andy Dobson, Peter Troxler, and Quasim Ashfaq.

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“On a random Sunday we went exploring the site; an abandoned, urban wasteland, a dead-space, just sitting there, waiting to be developed into another of the city’s many shopping centres. Until then this is a unique lawless area where no one notices or cares about what you’re doing. Discovering a mountain of granite blocks and a dumped TV instantly motivated the playful and imaginative side of us - and what’s more fun than crashing a TV, the most powerful icon of the materialistic world?"

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… an audio collage combining sounds from different locations in Aberdeen, edited and treated to varying degrees to function as an installation that constantly evolves and develops over time...it reflects the concept of an audio map both in terms of sounds we all hear (loud sounds, public sounds, shared spaces), as well as in terms of sounds we often miss (quiet sounds, sounds we filter out, private sounds you only notice when you're alone)...

(special thanx to pete stollery and the university of aberdeen for support and loan of equipment)

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See our society as a society of abstract space that has three essential aspects: (1) the reduction of urban space into plans, maps and diagrams that -- as 'roadmaps', 'blueprints', 'master plans' etc. -- promise (2) a better future (and doing so defer the actual delivery of satisfaction and human enrichment), while the actual space is then (3) occupied/filled by vertically-oriented, granite-steel-and-glass architectural erections.

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Using the character Tariq McGregor-McPherson we hope to establish an on the street snap shot of where people think Aberdeen’s Urban Culture exists. We will be interviewing a number of local Cultural Activists ranging from Gallery owners to music promoters and Musicians/DJ’s. We also hope to obtain a number of on the street opinions. We will be targeting a diverse range of the public.

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(...) The existence of Joe's allowed, it would seem, many of us to develop our own imagination which in turn led us into a wondrous development of our own fantastical stories of lives in a city, imagined or otherwise. Gradually, with our changes the landscape also began to alter and renew itself. Joe can still be seen today and all those places that were once only his are now happily shared by many. You may think that Joe will have been prevented from pursuing his unique existence. Oh how wrong. He found a new one and within it there are new spaces that we all remarkably never saw. Elsewhere Joe once again is happily elsewhere. Will we again follow?

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The gallery is our base, let's look for treasure

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