[spectre] HOST: Beagles and Ramsay - Unrealised Dreams

[Chris Byrne]

New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST:

Beagles and Ramsay - Unrealised Dreams

http://host.mediascot.org

Beagles and Ramsay have produced books of drawings in the style of 
Leonardo da Vinci which outline a number of proposals for possible 
future artworks, public sculptures, exhibitions, foodstuffs and 
musicals.

Originally a posterwork commissioned for Zenomap, a presentation of 
art from Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2003, Beagles and Ramsay 
have transformed Unrealised Dreams into an online hypertext archive 
of visionary ideas. This work for HOST forms part of the exhibition 
Welcome Back, at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 4 October - 21 December 
2003.

John Beagles and Graham Ramsay live and work in Glasgow and have 
exhibited together as Beagles & Ramsay since 1996. Their work 
encompasses installation, video and print publications, often 
constructed around character driven narratives where the artists cast 
themselves in absurdist roles or macabre situations. Recent 
exhibitions include: Dead of Night, at Gasworks Gallery, London & 
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Videodrome at the New Museum of 
Contemporary Art, New York; Burgerheaven at YYZ Artist's Outlet, 
Toronto & De Fabriek, Eindhoven.

HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to 
projects by artists. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST 
feature a range of Scottish and international artists including Mike 
Stubbs, slateford, Katrina McPherson & Simon Fildes, *candy factory, 
Luci Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky 
and Roshini Kempadoo.

Unrealised Dreams web site design by Simon Payne. Supported by 
Scottish Arts Council, British Council Scotland, New Media Scotland, 
Stills, & Si-Lo Design.

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