perplex is a bulletin of writing and textual responses to Edinburgh Annuale, the festival of independent practice. (It's meant to sound like perspex, only a little more opaque).

The format (co-conceived and edited by Colin Herd and Derek Sutherland) is a single-page bulletin, published frequently throughout the three weeks that Annuale runs (24th June-17th July- though a few exhibitions are open already, see below) and available at Embassy gallery and as many other Annuale venues as I can manage to distribute it in. These individual bulletins will be collated into one publication at the end of the festival. I'm looking for as many writers as possible to visit any of the Annuale exhibitions and events (you can find a (not yet complete) list on Facebook here, and I presume the Embassy website will carry a list soon too, but I've also put a list below) and then write some kind of response. The response can take any form whatsoever (review, poem, play, fiction, essay, combination, found text, vispo etc etc). The responses may specifically address a single exhibition or event, they may address annuale as a whole, or they may be a lot more indirect in their relation to the festival.

I am imagining all kinds of texts, and hoping that I get them. The only thing is, because of the nature of the publication (i.e. published almost every day of annuale, at least from the 30th onwards) the responses need to be fairly quick. The publication is meant to have a certain degree of the provisional and spontaneous about it, and I guess more polished versions could be re-included in later bulletins if the writer felt like doing that.

What I'm really hoping for is a dynamic and diverse publication, a separate part of Annuale in its own right, as well as a kind of document of response.

It would be great if you could circulate this as widely as possible to any writers who might be interested (I don't see the point in this unless I have a wide and diverse and ambitious mixture of writers from as many disciplines as possible) and also maybe let me know if you're interested in contributing so I have an idea of how many interested writers to expect (though also just send work as soon as possible after seeing a show if you prefer). There's no money involved but the individual issues as well as the final publication will be freely available to all who desire one.

SEND WRITTEN RESPONSES TO ANNUALE OF ANY KIND TO COLINJHERD@GMAIL.COM.

Thanks, and really hope to receive your work,

Colin.




ANNUALE is a festival of independent art practice in Edinburgh

O N G O I N G

SunBear present 'Interspaces'
Patriothall Gallery
off Hamilton Place
EH3 5AY

Annuale event 26 June 2-5pm
Ongoing-5 July

Superclub present 'Of Form and Growth'
Superclub
11a Gayfield Square
EH1 3NT

Ongoing-3 July Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm

2 4 J U N E

'Biscuits'
Such and Such
105 Brunswick Street
EH7 3HR

Opening 24 June 6-8pm
25-26 June 12-6pm

Jambon present 'New Stuff'
Whitespace
11 Gayfield Square
EH1 3NT

Opening 24 June 6-8pm
25-30 June 10am-5pm

Embassy present 'Joy Axe'
Embassy
10b Broughton Street Lane
EH1 3LY

Opening 24 June 7-9pm
24 June-17July Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm

Superclub present 'Yuck'n'Yum Zine Launch'
Superclub
11a Gayfield Square
EH1 3NT

24 June 7-10pm

Annuale Launch Party
The Wee Red Bar
eca
74 Lauriston Place
EH3 9DF

24 June from 10pm

2 5 J U N E

Total Kunst present 'Black Matter'
Total Kunst
3 Bristo Place
EH1 1EY

25 June 12-6pm

Collective present 'Against the Realm of the Absolute'
Teviot Row House (Debating Hall, top floor)
13 Bristo Square
EH8 9AJ

25 June 2pm

'Two shy dwarves pair up and take on the world'
Upstairs at The Store
37 Guthrie Street
EH1 1JG

Opening 25 June 6-9pm
26-27 June 12-6pm

2 7 J U N E

Total Kunst present 'Diluting Orange'
Total Kunst
3 Bristo Place
EH1 1EY

Opening 27 June 7pm
28 June-24 July

'Blunderbuss' supported by New Media Scotland
Inspace
1 Crichton Street
EH8 9AB

27 June 8pm

1 J U L Y

Go Reborn present '#GR5-RMX'
Studio 128
128 Pitt Street
EH6 4DD

Opening 1 July 6-9pm
2 July 10am-8pm

Rhubaba present 'New Work by Tom Nolan and Frances Stacey'
Rhubaba
25 Arthur Street
EH6 5DA

Opening 2 July 7-9pm
3-11 July Thursday-Sunday 12-5pm

Superclub present 'Whatyoubuilding?' PET single launch
Superclub
11a Gayfield Square
EH1 3NT

1 July 9-10.30pm

2 J U L Y

'Young London'
Water of Leith
www.thenewdome.com/younglondon.htm

From 2 July

'Kitchen Lectures'
By booking at projectwakaka@yahoo.co.uk
www.projectwakaka.wordpress.com

2 July 7pm
8 July 7pm
10 July 7pm
15 July 7pm

7 J U L Y

Superclub present a film screening by Diane Edwards
Superclub
11a Gayfield Square
EH1 3NT

7-9pm

1 2 J U L Y

Embassy present 'Anticlock: Utopian Disillusion in London's Late Counterculture'
Embassy
10b Broughton Street Lane
EH1 3LY

12 July 7pm

1 4 J U L Y

'Slow Wave Through the City'
Prince's Street Gardens

14 July Afternoon

Coup Red present 'Select'
Spoon
6a Nicolson Street
EH8 9DH

14 July 7pm

1 6 J U L Y

'Dialogues with Polish Art'
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
25 Hawthornvale
EH6 4JT

16 July 7pm

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