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Unco Site Life Turns

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Neoflagellation on Central Station

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Neil Mulholland, one half of the collaboration which established the Confraternity of the Neoflagellants, talks to Central Station about the fascinating themes behind the group's event taking place at this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.

'The Confraternity of Neoflagellants' - it's quite a name, how would you describe this collaboration to the uninitiated?

The Confraternity of Neoflagellants was founded in 2009 by Serjeant-At-Law Norman Hogg (then of The Embassy) and joined by Keeper of the Wardrobe Neil Mulholland (Edinburgh College of Art). It is a secular and equal opportunities confraternity bound by chirograph.

Well sort of. There has to be a myth of origin. Norman came up with the name and invited Neil to join him (Norman was the founding member). Norman set up a Facebook group and then we gradually invited new members that we wanted to work with. Most of the neoflagellants recruited to date were in ‘Avalon’ or wrote for it. There are more now. It’s based on medieval fraternities which are similar to itinerant social groups you find online and in cosmopolitan cities today. We are seeking to recruit other members to our crusade as well as find new disciples as we establish a wider Confraternity. We are transdisciplinary in this sense, we will wander to where we find something of interest and work in whatever way is suitable. For example, this is why we are working with Central Station - an archconfraternity – that mirrors the guild system as it was manifested during the development of the early world economy (c.1250-1350). The Confraternity of Neoflagellants is a Trojan for scholarly, hermeneutic and creative reflection upon what Central Station is, where it comes from and where it might go. Central Station is one lens through which this activity is filtered – a portal that makes our process visible and which enables the benefice to function at increasingly great distances of space and time.

‘neoflagellants’ because we are lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture. It’s a multiple name that allows people to come and go – in this sense it’s drawing on iconoclastic collectives like neoism and ‘pataphysics. We’re influenced by the ways in which the medieval concept of the commons is being re-established online, often in quite utopian ways (i.e. Folkmote / creative commons). It’s also prevalent in International Relations and related discussions of globalisation (a much more interesting way of seeing this than by looking at corporatism). This needs to impact upon art practice, the way that things are produced in technoculture seems far more exciting and open right now. There’s the sense of working on a production being more like making a film, that it might involve lots of people and morph during the process of coming together as everyone plays their part. We want to avoid auteurism and lose control of what we’re doing. So flagellants in the sense of inflicting unnecessary pain upon ourselves perhaps! The Confraternity of Neoflagellants doesn’t have to include Neil or Norm or anybody that’s been involved to date. It’s not a group like The Beatles and it’s not a collective either. It’s just a sensibility, a dynamic one at that. It can be taken on by anyone who wants to develop any of the ideas we’re working with (they aren’t our ideas after all, they belong to everyone).

Image: designed by Robby Ogilvie
Tell me more about the event you'll be hosting at the Edinburgh Art Festival.

It’s called An Unco Site!, a line from Burns’ ‘Tam O’Shanter’. We changed the spelling of the line sight to site. (so it now reads something like ‘magnificent place’ in translation to English) We wanted to enact a spectacle in the form that Tam sees it and to relate this to the social production of place right now here in Edinburgh. We didn’t want to do too much to create this, the ghosts that Tam sees are ordinary in a sense, they are having a break from spooking people – they are relaxing after their work. It’s their leisure time. Our intention is to haunt an area of Edinburgh that is yet to transform into a place, a space that seeks to combine work and play. The walk we have planned is casual yet oddly transtemporal engagement with these spaces. The glass curtain wall of the reception venue is a physical boundary signifying history’s much-debated alterity. Overall the proceedings will combine psychogeography, micro-history and canonical mysticism with festival tourism to create a rich dialogue between all involved. It will engage the audience with the relationship between sight and site. Key to this is engaging with the invisible, in particular with itinerant service sector labour and the new quarters of the city that are yet to be inhabited.

There has been an escalation of this kind of work since the numerous heritage re-enactments that were part of Homecoming Scotland last year (our recruitment poster INVISIBLE LABOUR ISN’T WORKING refers to this, and has a nod to the ‘airbrushed-asian’ debacle). These workers are a particularly interesting example of post-industrial labourers, part of what Pine and Gilmore call The Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1999). Herein lies the analogy with Edinburgh’s new towns, business and leisure areas that are attempting to generate a cosmopolitanism in harsh economic conditions. These neomodernist are a tabula rasa surrounded by the loaded Medievalisms, Victoriana and Georgian planning. Haunting a new building is intended to provide it with a phastasmic heritage, a pre-modern consciousness, a psychogeographical palimpsest of the kind of inhabitation that it is yet to enjoy. The analogy between post-plague medieval economic meltdown and zombie capitalism is quintessentially neomedieval as is the connection between today’s flash mobs and urban folk devils such as the infamous Edinburgh Mob of the Old Town.

Ricardo Marini will be one of the speakers at our symposium. He’s a very interesting planner from Edinburgh City Council (City Design Leader). We hope to investigate what’s happening with the city with him in more depth.

An Unco Site! is in three parts. Firstly there will be a flash mob and ghost walk through Edinburgh. We meet at the Scott Monument at 11pm on the 7th of August. We have a publicity campaign running at the moment that will be seen around Edinburgh in the run up to the Festival opening – INVISIBLE LABOUR ISN’T WORKING. It features lots of the sorts of ‘ghosts’ we’d like to see traipsing the cobbles on the 7th, including Peter Sellers and the cast of Rentaghost! We are attempting to recruit as many costumed actors and historical tour guides from the streets of Edinburgh as possible.

Secondly, once we have enough people gathered on the 7th, we will then walk to a secret location where an after party will be held featuring music from Paul Vickers & The Leg and Adopted as Holograph. There will also be a DJ set and some Vjing too. There will be free drinks at the party (until they run out). To get in all you need to do is dress appropriately, either as an historical figure or as a ghost and turn up at the Scott Monument on the 7th at 11pm. ‘Death’ will be on the door of the reception and will decide whether or not you get to pass over the Styx.

Thirdly we are holding a symposium on the 9th of August at Inspace in Edinburgh. This will feature:

Dr Mark Jardine (Scottish Historian, University of Edinburgh and author of BBC’s History of Scotland series)

Yann Chateigné (Head of Visual Arts, Geneve University of Art & Design)

Riccardo Marini (City Design Leader, City of Edinburgh Council)

Neil Cooper (Critic and Journalist, The Herald)

Keynote:
Howard Rheinhold (www.rheingold.com)

Updates on what’s happening, including the location of the venue (announced at 10:45pm on the 7th of August) are available here: lightmotiv.org.uk

Neomedievalism is at the core of the project - where did your interest in this stem from? How do you see this theme manifested in the event?

There is a history to the long now that we’re working with. Neomedievalism embraces the spectral traces or ‘uncertain knowledges’ of its historical past as part of an ever-morphing, force-feedback simulation, (or permanent rehearsal) of coming events. The longing for a future assembled from a bricolage of pre-modern components embeds itself deeper with every advance in the technologies of representation. The fantasy must become ever closer to reality. The scholastic symbolism of Dante Alighieri’s Commedia - the principle map of dualistic medieval cosmology and a mythology important to the hacker intelligentsia of early Internet development communities - codifies the ecclesiastical space we are working in according to neomedieval gaming principles of grinding and leveling-up common in the ‘beige age of swords and circuitry’, the nerdosphere of MUD’s and MMORPG.

We will be speaking with world wide web pioneer and online guru Howard Rheingold about this in our symposium on the 9th of August in Inspace.

How do you want people to get involved?

We want people to get dressed up and walk through the city with us then enjoy the reception afterwards. If they aren’t sure what to wear, we have a few fancy dress shop sponsors in Edinburgh that will give you a discount on a hire if you mention An Unco Site! (see lightmotivorg.uk for more info). If they are also around on Monday the 9th then they are more than welcome to come along to our symposium – it’s open to all.

If someone really wants to perform or speak at An Unco Site! then they should contact us directly at info@confraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk

What role will Central Station be having?

Hopefully it will snare us a few ghosts and play host to some images captured by participants in the event. We are working with the filmmaker Matt Brown to make sure that all of An Unco Site! will be recorded and made available on Central Station and at our page confraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk in the form of a short film. We are also hoping to have live video feeds running into Central Station, fingers crossed with that...

And finally... what other events are you most looking forward to at Edinburgh Art Festival this year?

Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Big Things on the Beach, Martin Creed, William Wegman, Hito Steyerl and Twonkey’s Cottage.

Join the Confraternity of Neoflagellants group here.
Find out more about the events taking place at Edinburgh Art Festival here.

Investigating Premodern Futures - Bambuser Footage

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Bambuser footage recorded and streamed live. The full quality video footage of the event will follow in a few week. O My Brothers!

Unco Site Venue

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Is Inspace on Crichton Street opposite the Mosque!

Walk with Us Tonight!

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This is the first part of the walk. Gather at Scott Monument at 11:00pm leave at 11:15pm sharp. Walk along Princes Street towards the RSA then take a left and walk past the National Gallery, up the Playfair Steps, cut across to the Writers' Museum Close (to the left of The Wash bar), go across the close to the far exit on the left corner, cross the Lawnmarket/High Street and walk down the right of George IV Bridge ('The King's Jaunt') to Greyfriars Kirk then down Forrest Road to Middle Meadow Walk and down no further than Peter's Yard. The final destination is close by and will be revealed when we get to Middle Meadow walk. We will wait there a minute until we have everyone. In case you get lost, we will post the venue at that point up here on lightmotiv.org.uk

Andrew Cattanach 'City of Dead' - The Skinny

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City of Dead

Posted by Andrew Cattanach, Tue 20 Jul 2010

As the festival gets into full swing the living dead take to the streets in a prefiguration of our dark future

We live in neomedieval times. That’s to say that much of our contemporary condition has more than a passing resemblance to the Middle Ages, with its plagues, financial crises and globalisation. Yes, globalisation. According to the academic, artist and member of the art collective Confraternity of Neoflagallants, Neil Mulholland, the medieval period had a fully globalised economy. What is more, like our economy, the arse fell out of theirs too.

To fully appreciate the extent of what Mulholland is suggesting it may help to ignore him a little. His chat is like a dense and sprawling medieval city. Like intricate, gothic tracery, he weaves a complex tapestry of ideas and cultural references that includes both Marx and The Mighty Boosh. And likewise, he doesn’t shy away from blatant incongruity, using his iPhone to prove that we live in dark ages.

“We are lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture,” he explains of the Confraternity, which includes founding member Norman James Hogg. This is not a romanticising of pre-capitalist society like the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood did over a century ago, Mulholland emphasises, but a way of deciphering the future – what they call premodern futurity. “Neomedievalism embraces the spectral traces of its historical past as part of an ever-morphing, force-feedback simulation of coming events,” he tells me, like a latter day soothsayer.

The Confraternity’s most recent show, Avalon, at Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, was in many ways a kind of manifesto proclaiming that contemporary life is once more imbued with the concerns that once preyed on the lowly serf and included work by Confraternity members Torsten Lauschmann and Alex Pollard. It displayed an eclecticism that reflected the diversity of the Middle Ages, with all its regional and ecclesiastical nuances. We’re confronted by a peculiar, ritualistic performance by the collaborative duo Plastique Fantastique and a mesmerising dramatisation of a chat room debate, or what is known as a flame war, about online gaming by the game art pioneer Eddo Stern.

As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Confraternity has been commissioned to stage a ‘zombie walk’, called An Unco Site!, dedicated to Edinburgh’s ‘ghosts’. The ‘ghosts’, or ‘living dead’, in this case being all those who wear historical costumes to work, including street performers in historical garb and bagpipers kitted out in retro regalia. Beginning at the Scott Monument on Princes Street, the Confraternity looks to gather a crowd of all these lost souls – nomadic performers who have found themselves drawn to the city during festival time – to parade through the streets of Edinburgh in a homage to our advanced stage of crisis.

Setting off from the Scott Monument at 11pm on Saturday 7 August, the parade will wind its way through the city centre toward the old town, eventually arriving at an undisclosed venue where a reception will be held for the participants. The Confraternity encourages all those who wear historical attire for work to get involved, providing a social setting for the solitary performers to meet. The rest of us can choose to watch the parade go by or follow its progress into the depths of the ‘zombie city’.

Central to the parade is the city itself. With its origins in medieval times, new building developments around the docks and the Quartermile have seen the city transformed. A building boom followed by a swift depression has left brand new buildings unoccupied, again drawing comparisons with the undead. Both a camp celebration of the city’s nomadic labour force and a kind of ominous prescience of a bleak future, An Unco Site! looks to be a darkly pleasurable affair.

Adopted as Holograph to play An Unco Site!

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The Confraternity of Neoflagellants are pleased to announce that Glasgow-based Adopted as Holograph will be playing at the Reception of An Unco Site!

August 7th 2010 following the zombie walk. Venue will be revealed at the end of the walk.

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Howard Rheingold to speak at An Unco Site! on 9th August 2010

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The Confraternity of Neoflagellants are pleased to announce that Howard Rheingold will be speaking to us from California at An Unco Site! on 9th August 2010 at Inspace, University of Edinburgh.
Howard Rheingold's Story

From: http://www.rheingold.com/howard

I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged my computer into my telephone and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, my interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech (1982) and The Cognitive Connections (1986) with Howard Levine Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and phrases.(1988).

I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology, via the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers, and wrote Tools for Thought (1984) [New edition from MIT Press, April 2000]. Next, Virtual Reality (1991) chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France.

In 1985, I became involved in the WELL, a computer conferencing system. I started writing about life in my virtual community and ended up with a book about the cultural and political implications of a new communications medium, The Virtual Community(1993 [New edition to be published by MIT Press in 2000]). I am credited with inventing the term "virtual community." I had the privilege of serving as the editor of The Whole Earth review and editor in chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog (1994). Here's my introduction to the Catalog, my riff onTaming Technology and a selection of my own articles and reviews from both publications

In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds wasnamed one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. Since the late 1990s, I've cat-herded a consultancy for virtual community building.
My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. The weblog associated with the book has become one of the top 200 of the 8 million blogs tracked by Technorati, and won Utne Magazine's Independent Press Award in 2003. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective actionthat I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of my ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action. I teach Participatory Media/Collective Action at UC Berkeley's School of Information, Digital Journalismand VirtualCommunity/Social Media at Stanford University, am a non-resident Fellow of the Annenberg School for Communication, and am a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. In 2008, I was a winner in MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning competition and used my award to work with a developer to create a free and open source social media classroom. I have a videoblog that covers a range of subjects. Most recently, I've been concentrating on learning and teaching 21st Century literacies. I've blogged about this subject for SFGate, have been interviewed, and have presented talks on the subject.

‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ : 9th August 2010

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‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™
- An Unco Site! Symposium

Monday 9th August, Inspace,
Informatics Building, 1 Crichton Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB.

For directions, click here.

FREE All Welcome!

Please arrive at 11:30am for 12:00 start

Part 1: Auld Lamps for New?

Is Edinburgh a ghost city? What future awaits its ‘new‘ quarters (Quartermile, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh Waterfront) areas that have no past and that are yet to be occupied? What fate awaits older buildings that have fallen empty? An Unco Site! is focused on the way in which a fantastic neomedieval ‘history’ is routinely injected into Edinburgh’s Old Town (e.g. Auld Jock’s Pie Shoppe, Frankenstein's, Armstrongs, etc.) Is there a space for the ‘new’ in Edinburgh? As the future shuts down does the past become all that’s left to sell? ‘Zombie capitalism’ and hauntology are key themes that our panel of experts will explore here.

Neil Cooper (Critic and Journalist, The Herald)

Riccardo Marini (City Design Leader, City of Edinburgh Council)

Dr Mark Jardine (Scottish Historian, Series Historian BBC A History of Scotland and researcher for the series In Search of Scotland)

Part 2: Return of The Long Now

Norman Hogg will briefly introduce some aspects of neomedievalism followed by presentations from Louise Milne and Bettina Bildhauer. Why the ‘neo’ in neomedievalism? How are the medievalisms of the post-post industrial era expressed in contradistinction to the gothic reconstructions of the Victorian era and its subsequent centurial echoes. Considered here are the perpetual oscillations between escapist, apocalyptic fantasy and rigorous philological study that destabilises the medieval as a distinct (and temporally bounded) unit of linear histiography. Why, and for what reasons, do we anticipate a future assembled from a bricolage of pre-modern components?

Chair: Norman Hogg (Serjeant-at-Law, Confraternity of Neoflagellants)

Dr Louise Milne (Cultural Historian, Edinburgh College of Art and Napier University)

Dr Bettina Bildhauer (BABEL Group / University of St. Andrews)

Part 3: Premodern Futures
Neil Mulholland will field the Confraternity's neomedieval questions to Howard and introduce Yann's presentation.

5:00pm Howard Rheinhold (www.rheingold.com)

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Paul Vickers and The Leg Chime Chime Cherry

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Invisible Labour Isn't Working

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Design: Robby Ogilvie

Paul Vickers and The Leg @ An Unco Site!

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Paul Vickers and The Leg to play @ An Unco Site!

Reception

Saturday 7th August 11:59pm, following the zombie walk.

Paul Vickers and The Leg is a reckless amalgam of the lyrical maverick behind John Peel favourites Dawn of the Replicants and Dan Mutch's equally single-minded trio formed from the ashes of Khaya and Desc.

Paul Vickers and The Leg began working together when they were asked to contribute a track to The Art School Dance - a live DVD commemorating 100 years of Edinburgh College of Art. An album; ‘‘Tropical Favourites’ followed. Tracks from ‘Tropical Favourites’ attracted spins from Huw Stephens show on BBC Radio One, Rob Da Bank also Radio one, Vic Galloway on Radio Scotland and Marc Riley, Tom Robinson and Gideon Coe on B.B.C. 6 Music. Paul Vickers and The Leg also recorded sessions for Vic Galloway’s Radio Scotland show, Sky TV and enjoyed frequent video spins on MTV for their 'Paperboat' and 'Ballard of Bess Houdini' videos. They are currently working on ‘Itchy Grumble’ a rock opera epic.

http://www.myspace.com/paulvickersandtheleg

http://slrecords.net/paulvickersandtheleg/

Paul Vickers can also be seen throughout the Festival in

Twonkey's Cottage

The Laughing Horse, Edinburgh Free Fringe

Counting House, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Venue 170 (38 west nicolson street) 12:10 to 13:00.

August 2010-The 5th -11th, 13th-18th, 20th-25th, 27th- 29th.

http://www.myspace.com/visitvickers

Twonkey’s Cottage is an off-centre treasure trove of tall tales, Featuring stories from across the globe and local. Tall stories to rival “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” with a demented puppet show as first realised on a night train to Liechtenstein. Paul stars in his first full-length stand up comedy show where he pushes the boat out bringing back a truly wonky catch.

“Paul vickers is badly dressed with a shedload of odd toys,he would have had his vary own sitcom in the 70s”. N.M.E.

Twonkey's cottage features adult stories of body popping livers playing fiddles, elephant chimney sweeps, and shape shifting shop lifting sausage dogs. Meet Paul and his puppets, Eerie Bill, Twonkey, Barbara Bananas and Bruntsfield Lottie. Look out for the reasonably priced warped new C.D “F**KING STORY’S” at all performances.

Paul Vickers is famous for fronting "Dawn of the Replicants" a veteran of five John Peel sessions.

"A loveable gonk/ a Da Vinci of lyrical invention”. MOJO.

In January 2009 Paul started performing stand up comedy around Edinburgh. Bizarrely he supported Mogwai taking on the role of chief red coat for the 'All Tomorrow Parties' Rockumentary movie premiere. Recently he has also been busy working on a post punk musical fairytale "Itchy Grumble” with “The Leg”, the concert version was performed at the fringe in 2009 a full theatrical version is pending. A couple of years ago S.L Records released a comedy album "Recording the Impossible” featuring Paul and his flat mate Andy Currie.

"Absurdist humour drawing on Cutler, Stanshall, Milligan and Lear, a little bizarre, but in small doses, delightful". UN-CUT.

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/visitvickers#ixzz0tB4ffsW3

This event has been made possible by support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010, Central Station, New Media Scotland and Inspace. The Edinburgh Art Festival showcases the very best in Scottish, British and international visual art in Edinburgh during the August festivals.

Walk with Us!

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Walk with Us!

Does your profession, hobby or obsession involve wearing historical costume? If so, then we salute you. In fact we are holding a Festival reception in your honour!

Meet us at the Scott Monument on Princes Street at 11:00pm on the 7th of August and The Confraternity of Neoflagellants will escort you to a top secret and highly exclusive party at an unco site in Edinburgh Southside where you will be offered free beverages and entertained by Paul Vickers and The Leg, Adopted as Holograph and Isaac Buckton (DJ).

All are welcome to join us on our pilgrimage through Auld Reekie.

Please ensure that you are wearing historical or ghostly apparel.

If you attempt to cross the Styx sheathed in the modern vogue then your adventure will end.

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Join the Confraternity of Neoflagellants: confraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk

This event has been made possible by support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010, Central Station, New Media Scotland and Inspace.

An Unco Site!

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Edinburgh Art Festival 2010  

An Unco Site!

As part of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival Expo Commission, the Confraternity of Neoflagellants are staging a ‘zombie walk’ and reception on Saturday the 7th of August. This involves a mash-up of Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter, The Party (starring Peter Sellers) (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1985) and The Fall’s Live at the Witch Trials (1979). A secret party is being held in the honour of Edinburgh's 'ghosts’, the living dead who wear historical costume for their work. At 11:00pm this Confraternity of Neoflagellants will assemble at the Scott Monument and walk through the City of Edinburgh, arriving at an undisclosed location before the midnight hour. Once there, they will cross the Styx to a wake. The after party will feature music and DJ sets as well as projections by artists currently exhibiting in ‘Avalon’ at The Embassy gallery in the Roxy Art House, Edinburgh. An Unco Site! is a psychogeographical work's night out, a busman's holiday that will create a confluence of professional historical actors, re-enactors and tour guides working in the City of Edinburgh - to allow them to meet and mingle and to share indulgences, resources and friendships.

Warlocks and witches in a dance:

Nae cotillon, brent new frae France,

But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,

Put life and mettle in their heels.

If you would like to participate or attend please contact the event producers: lightmotif
  

An Unco Site! has three components:   

1. 'The Zombie Walk’ 11pm, Scott Monument, Saturday 7^th August 2010.
2.  ‘The Reception’  early hours of Sunday 8^th August 2010.
3. ‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ – Symposium, Monday 9th August in Inspace, University of Edinburgh, featuring a range of speakers on the subject of neomedievalism.

An Unco Site! media:  

An Unco Site! will be streamed live to Bambuser
Photographs and footage will be edited for future podcasting on Central Station
Walk with Us on facebook
Join the Confraternity of Neoflagellants: confraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk

The event has been made possible by support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010, Central Station, New Media Scotland and Inspace.

The Edinburgh Art Festival showcases the very best in Scottish, British and international visual art in Edinburgh during the August festivals.

The Confraternity of Neoflagellants

The Confraternity of Neoflagellants are lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture. They are attuned to the scent of medieval analogies relating to the creative commons, the folkmote, the plateau of middle, post-post-industrialism and to geopolitical debates in the current era of zombie capitalism and the new irrationalism.