When the Future Was about Fracking HeHe, CENTRESPACE, VRC, DJCAD

22 Apr-18 May 2016

Overview

Thursday 21 April, 6pm: Curator's Talk with Rob Le Frenais Wednesday 18 May, 5pm : closing Event: Performance-Lecture by Hehe A sequel specially designed for Scotland,of Paris-based artist group HeHe's Fracking Futures. HeHe re-enact a doomed landscape after extensive hydraulic fracking, with leaking hissing ghostly wellheads, in the swirling mist of a post-apocalyptic abandoned excavation site. Exhibiting for the first time in Scotland, HeHe's often mischievous yet accurate miniaturisations of potential and actual global disasters have intrigued audiences worldwide. Curated by Rob Le Frenais, part of Energy Ethics, organised by Mette High (St Andrews University), in collaboration with Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, originally commissioned by FACT, Liverpool and Arts Catalyst. Funded by Creative Scotland and the British Academy.