The internationally renowned contemporary art festival, Art Night, comes to Dundee for 2023!

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This summer Art Night will deliver its first full iteration in a city outside London. On the evening of Saturday 24 June from 7pm until late, ten major commissions by internationally significant artists and more emergent artists will be presented in civic and public spaces across Dundee.

The commissions will comprise ambitious live events, installations, sound, performance and film. Iconic and unique spaces across Dundee will be used for this wide range of events, from DCA,  V&A Dundee, to historic ships the RRS Discovery and the HMS Unicorn, The Little Theatre, Arthurstone Library, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Baxter Park and Pavillion, and the Keiller Centre as well as outdoors in the city’s streets.

Alongside the commissions is Inwith, a series of projects highlighting Dundee’s expansive art and communities programming. Inwith comprises 12 projects with partners including V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective, Open/Close Dundee in collaboration with EH9 Espresso, Wooosh Gallery, Dundee Community Gardens Network/Grow Dundee, Dundee Heritage Trust’s Creative Communities Network, Dundee Women’s Aid, Hot Chocolate Trust, The Binnn and Volk Gallery with more to be announced soon!

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The ten Art Night commissions include:

• Turner Prize winning artist Tai Shani will present My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be at the Little Theatre.
• Musician, producer and DJ Nabihah Iqbal will lead a musical take-over, featuring performances by the artist and invited collaborators at RSS Discovery.
• Artist Emma Hart will present a euphoric situation at a special venue in Dundee to be disclosed near to Art Night; co-commissioned with Hospitalfield.
• Dundee-based artist Saoirse Amira Anis will present a performance as an extension of her solo presentation at DCA, symphony for a fraying body.  The work will also take place at HMS Unicorn.
• Dundee-based artist Inefficient Solutions will present The Hi-Visit at GENERATORProjects.
• In Arthurstone Library and the Keiller Centre, artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will present I KNEW YOUR VOICE BEFORE YOU SPOKE.
• Artist Lucy McKenzie will present film Náhrdelník (Necklace) at V&A Dundee. 
• Co-commissioned by Art Night and the Art Fund as part of their Wild Escape programme, multi-media artist Heather Phillipson will present Dream Land (working title), at Cooper Gallery.
• Composer Richy Carey will present {stereo – type – music} at Baxter Park Pavilion. 
• At Dundee Rep, writer Maria Fusco and filmmaker Margaret Salmon present History of the Present.

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The free festival will be brought to Dundee in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). Art Night will also be collaborating with V&A Dundee; Creative Dundee; NEoN Digital Arts; Cooper Gallery (DJCAD);  The McManus Art Gallery and Museum; GENERATORprojects; Dundee City Council; Dundee Heritage Trust, and Hospitalfield.  

Art Night Dundee is supported by Creative Scotland and EventScotland’s National Events Programme. National partners include The Art Fund; The Tetley, Leeds; Creative Kernow; Museum of London and Serpentine.

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Art Night is a biannual contemporary art festival presenting ambitious work by artists at pivotal moments in their career. Developing within towns, villages and cities across the country, Art Night takes place in public spaces and civic buildings. The festival is free and everyone is welcome.