Venue Description

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On. Alfredo Jaar For Edinburgh Art Festival 2019, Alfredo Jaar presents a public intervention titled I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On. Consisting of a neon sign on the enclosed footbridge between the National Museum and the University of Edinburgh, on West College Street. The neon artwork is best viewed from Chambers Street. (25th July - 25th August 2019) The work, a response to the EAF theme; Stories for an Uncertain World, quotes the closing words of The Unnamable, a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. The neon is accompanied by regular performances which disperse the text through the city’s streets. For Jaar, these words articulate a perfect metaphor for the era we live in, “a time of absolute chaos and confusion, where the collapse of ideologies and traditional politics is amplified by a dazzling array of technological developments; an era of alternative realities, otherwise known as the post-truth moment. How do we act in the world today?”. Alfredo Jaar (lives and works in New York) is internationally acclaimed for projects which challenge our readings of recent historical and political subjects. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund, EventScotland and British Council Scotland. With additional support from David Narro Associates and kind permission of National Museums Scotland.

Accessibility

This artwork is visible from Chambers Street and West College Street itself. Numerous Buses alight on George IV Bridge and on South Bridge, at either end of Chambers Street, a short distance away. West College Street is about halfway along. The neon artwork is sighted on an enclosed bridge between the National Museum and the University of Edinburgh Building Pavements on West College Street are narrow and slightly uneven. Further information for this description is pending.

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