Mark Dion is undertaking a new commission on behalf of Artlink for Ever / Present / Past. EPP is the programme which commemorates the bi centenary of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital during 2013.

Mark Dion’s concept is 200 years, 200 objects. An object for each year, ranging from 1813 to 2013.

We are currently compiling a database of over 200 objects, each object assigned to a particular year.  The resulting 200 objects will comprise an exhibition by Mark Dion at the Talbot Rice Gallery in November 2013 to mark the end of the bi centenary year.

We are looking for 3 interns at graduate or post graduate level who will work with us to compile this database.

The Internships will run June and July 2013, with minimum of 1 day a week commitment from each intern.

Intern 1 – Will work with existing archives and collections
Intern 2 – Will work with the Royal Hospital Edinburgh community, staff and patients
Intern 3 – Will work with Morningside community

To apply please post or email a 1 page CV with 1 page covering letter stating your interest in and relevant experience for this project to:

Trevor Cromie – Artlink, 13a Spittal Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DY, 0131 229 3555 trevor@artlinkedinburgh.co.uk

Schedule:
Application deadline Monday 27^th May
Selection Wed 29^th May
Internship starts Monday 3^rd June

Joins us at 5.30pm on the 15th of May at the Jordanburn Lecture Theatre at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

Professor Ronnie Jack will first of all briefly examine Fergusson’s poetry in relation to his life, focusing particularly on how far, if at all, his mental health issues can be detected in his art. He will then celebrate the poet’s work from a number of perspectives as well as placing him within the eighteenth century vernacular revival in Scottish verse.

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The talk is part of ‘Ever Present Past’ project at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital developed and coordinated by Artlink. The project explores the history of the Hospital through a series of talks, events and workshops and artist placements throughout 2013 – the Hospital’s bi-centenary year.

In association with the Royal Edinburgh Patients’ Council.

Join us on Wednesday the 24th of April, 5.30pm at the Jordanburn Lecture Theatre, Royal Edinburgh Hospital for a talk by Edith Elliot and Elaine Bannerman who will look at how Dietetics began in Edinburgh. Edith and Elaine will explore how the importance of food in the clinical care of patients has evolved over the years.

The talk is part of ‘Ever Present Past’ project at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital developed and coordinated by Artlink. The project explores the history of the Hospital through a series of talks, events and workshops and artist placements throughout 2013 – the Hospital’s bi-centenary year.

With the support of the Lothian Health Services Archive.

Join us on Wednesday the 17th April for a talk by poet Valarie Gillies who will explore how the story of the brief life of Robert Ferguson, is connected to Andrew Duncan’s proposal to build the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

The talk is part of ‘Ever Present Past’ project at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital developed and coordinated by Artlink. The project explores the history of the Hospital through a series of talks, events and workshops and artist placements throughout 2013 – the Hospital’s bi-centenary year.

In association with the Royal Edinburgh Patients’ Council.

We have new exhibition opening at the Link Gallery in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital on the 8th of April, if you have some time then we suggest you make your way there.

Artist Charlotte Podger interviewed five staff and patients of the REH, to find out which space or object they particularly associate with the hospital or holds a particular memory for them.  A room in the hospital? A corner of a garden? A corridor? A view from a window?

The things they picked might surprise you.

“It’s the GRAND MASTER… in those days it would always have been round the neck of the sister or head matron.” :George Todd, Senior Estates Manager