The Ocean's Edge
- Tickets
- Book a free ticket
- Dates and Opening times
Friday 5th June - 4pm - 6pm
BOOKING REQUIRED
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- Venue
Kelvin Hall Cinema, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW
- Participants
- Leticia Ramos Lícida Vidal Alberta Whittle
- Presented by
ALICE SHARP, INVISIBLE DUST in partnership with PIVÔ, BRAZIL WITH TBA21-ACADEMY, SPAIN
- Supported by
‘The Ocean’s Edge’ is part of the official UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–26 by the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa. Invisible Dust UK in partnership with Pivô, Brazil with TBA21-Academy, Spain. Partners Cove Park, Baltic, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Embassy of Brazil in London, Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh, Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, Bienal das Amazônias and Universidade Federal do Pará.
- Accessiblity
The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors, but these are not accessible
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet
Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same”.
Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea, 1955.
Alberta Whittle, Letícia Ramos and Licida Vidal in conversation with Alice Sharp
Does the sea surround the land, or the land the sea? Inspired by the pioneering environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson, Glasgow-based Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle, who represented Scotland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, joins Brazilian artists Letícia Ramos and Licida Vidal, to screen their works and an in conversation with Alice Sharp, Invisible Dust to uncover the Atlantic Ocean.
This event is part of the official UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–26 supported by the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa with the Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh, through a collaboration of Pivo, Invisible Dust and TBA21-Academy.
The three artists have been at residencies in Cove Park, Scotland, Belem, Salvador and Ubatuba Brazil and collaborated with ocean scientists from São Paulo and the Scottish Association for Marine Science. The discussion will illuminate Ramos’s films exploring natural and imagined landscapes; Vidal’s sculptures on natural bodies and water; and Whittle’s focus on decolonial ancestral knowledge, climate change, healing and resistance.
‘The Ocean’s Edge’ is a partnership of Pivô and Invisible Dust UK with TBA21-Academy.