Pleasure Ground
2018: reflected upon the seaside entertainment history of Portobello; an era of music halls, bandstands and the fairground showing archive material alongside newly commissioned work relating to our public grounds of the seaside and promenade. Artists: Greig Burgoyne, Ross Whyte, Oi Musica, Fiona Hermse, Deirdre Macleod.
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Carousel
Artist Fiona Hermse worked with members of Portobello Older Peoples’ Project to create a series of mobile, merry-go-round style sculptures based on collected memories of Portobello’s pleasure industry past. The sculptures were carried as part of an accompanying musical parade from members of Brass Blast and Oi Musica, with a massed band finale led by…
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Pier to Pier
Pier to pier is a participatory performance, a meeting of one space that is lost and another which is very much in existence. In this case it is the melding of the circumference of Portobello pier (in the form of 129 Metres of elastic chord) which once stood on this site, and the walking of the…
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Festoon
Created by artist Deirdre Macleod, Festoon invited participants to walk slowly in a line, carrying portable lighted frames around the darker spaces of Portobello during the 2018 Art Walk Porty Pleasure Ground programme – spaces that can be lost after dark, to create a walking illumination. Festoon involved two performative walks around Portobello involving the…
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Bandstand Project
Lewisvale Park Musselburgh AS I WALK. I GLIMPSE. I HEAR. The bandstand has long served as the public site for community music occupying many of our public parks and promenades. This project invites us to once again find music as we stroll our public parks, to search out the music we hear, focussing on places…