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Sarah Turner, 'Public House', film still, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
Exhibition
The Last Hour!
23 Sep 2017 – 5 Nov 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- City Observatory
- 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
- Edinburgh
Scotland - EH7 5AA
- United Kingdom
'The Last Hour!' is a new project curated by Timothea Armour, which considers the contemporary state and potential future of the public house.
About
The Last Hour! is a new project curated by Timothea Armour, which considers the contemporary state and potential future of the public house. Drawing on The Pub and the People, a Mass Observation study from 1938, The Last Hour! seeks to use some of the same research techniques to examine the pub of today. Events include:
A Mass Observation Field Trip
Meet at Collective, Calton Hill
7 October 2017, 3.30pm
Free, booking via Eventbrite
The Pub and the People, a Mass Observation study from 1938 was compiled from reports made by anonymous observers, drinking in pubs and submitting their findings on every aspect of pub life. As part of The Last Hour!, you are invited to join artists Lloyd and Wilson in carrying out some Mass Observation in Edinburgh’s pubs.
When is a pub not a pub?
Collective
21 October 2017, 3.30pm—5pm
Free, booking via Eventbrite
Artists Lloyd and Wilson and project curator Timothea Armour invite the public to join the discussions surrounding The Last Hour!. This event follows on from the previous Mass Observation field trip, and will use the collected observations as prompts.
Usurper
The Waverley Bar, St Mary's Street
21 October 2017, 7.30pm
Free
Usurper are a duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed by Ali Robertson, also the founder of cassette tape label Giant Tank, and cartoonist Malcy Duff in 2003. As part of The Last Hour!, they have been invited to create a performance in response to the project, its starting points in pub culture, research findings and the pub soundscape.
Sarah Turner, Public House
Cameo Picturehouse
5 November 2017, 3.30pm
Ticketed - booking via Picturehouse
Presented in partnership with Picturehouse cinemas, Public House tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham. Public House was selected to be screened as part of The Last Hour! on the basis of its resonances with the rest of the project; it questions what it means to be ‘local’, the importance of pubs as social spaces, and the place of memory and nostalgia in the institution of the public house. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Sarah Turner.
