World premiere event, Hinterland, to launch Scotland’s Architecture 2016

Hinterland to mark the official launch of Scotland’S Festival of Architecture presenting the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.

In March 2016, Hinterland, presented by Glasgow based public art charity, NVA, will open with a night-time public event at St Peter’s seminary, one of Scotland’s most iconic 20^th century buildings, almost 50 years since the day the seminary opened.

This is part of the ambitious scheme to reclaim the future of the world-renowned St Peter’s seminary in Cardross, Argyll and Bute. The buildings are now registered as one of the World Monuments Fund’s most endangered cultural landmarks.

The building will be transformed using light and sound to symbolise the rise out of ruination, into a new creative life. Hinterland will subtly re-animate the skeletal concrete superstructure with monochromatic light, projection and a specially commissioned choral work.

The audience will be free to move through the seminary’s main spaces, encountering the subtle integration of polyphony, projection mapping and light installations playing out on and around the surfaces of the degraded superstructure.

Hinterland presents a public statement about the site’s future as a national platform for progressive public art, following an extensive programme of work to make the building safer for future use led by Reigart Contracts. This revealed the buildings stunning architectural details that have been concealed beneath debris for the last 25 years.

Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA said: “We are setting out to ensure that the imaginative re-use of this great late modernist structure reflects the same social dynamism and ambition with which it was conceived, based around a spirit of working progressively to improve what we can and imagining a better world. It is NVA’s intention to preserve a raw sense of otherness, excitement and revelation”.

Hinterland is a creative collaboration between Director Angus Farquhar , designer James Johnson, composer Rory Boyle, University of St Andrews Music Centre and St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, Lighting Director Phil Supple, Project Designer NOVAK Collective, and from 85A art collective – Dav Bernard, Zephyr Liddell, Robbie Thomson & Pete Sach.

Hinterland is part of the Festival of Architecture 2016, which runs throughout 2016, with over 400 events taking place across Scotland.

NVA are currently looking for 60 volunteers to be part of the delivery of Hinterland.

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