24 August 2011
Lineage Screenprinting Workshop
11–4pm
£55/ £40, booking essential
To book, contact the venue directly.
Screenprinting workshop inspired by the graphic, stylized images of the Lineage exhibition. Bring along photographs or drawings, and deconstruct your own art-historical objects to create a Michael-Craig Martin inspired screenprint.
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
24 August 2011
Talk: Diarmaid Lawlor on Being 'Public'
1-2pm
Free, booking essential
Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism at Architecture and Design Scotland will talk about the concept of ‘being public’ reflecting on streets, society and the challenge of being ‘public’.
It is interesting to reflect on the fact that about 80% of the public space of our cities and towns are streets. The street is a place to be public. The legislation underpinning most streets in most places suggests that ‘any reasonable act’ is permissible. People can gather. Protests can happen. Exchange is permitted. Conflict can happen.
In the past, streets were the spaces where some of the necessary aspects of our public life were provided. They were sites of shopping, of meeting, of working. Being public was about doing what you had to do, in a public place. Today, being public is a much more complex issue. How we engage with each other is different. What we do is different. How we use spaces, and what we expect of them is different. And yet, when the public nature of the public space of our streets is highlighted, often through conflict, we do reflect, rightly or wrongly on the issue of ‘being public’. What is appropriate, who is appropriate, where is appropriate? What is public?
The pavilion in St.Andrew’s Square is an interesting space to talk about the idea of ‘being public’. Situated, as it is in a public space, its transparency permits visual connection between those inside and those outside. There is nowhere to hide, but to engage in the conversations in the space, and engage in the wider situation of the place.
Join us for an informal half-hour talk presented by members of the gallery’s team that is designed to fit into your lunch hour. The Wednesday Walkabout runs weekly throughout the exhibition.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
24 August 2011
Discussion Event: Apps and the City
2.30-5pm
Free
Booking Essential
Edinburgh Art Festival and Trigger invite you to the launch of Watch the Water
Created by Coney
Produced by Trigger & Coney
Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival
To celebrate the launch of Watch the Water, Trigger are hosting a panel session that explores digital projects within the festival context.
Joined by a trio of leading practitioners, we will discuss how digital technology offers us new ways of experiencing festivals. Taking three projects that are currently live here in Edinburgh as case studies, the panel will begin to unpick the creative opportunities that digital tools bring to the table.
Annette Mees of Coney will talk about Watch the Water (Edinburgh Art Festival), Alex Fleetwood of Hide&Seek will discuss Hinterland (Edinburgh Fringe) and Rohan Gunatillake of Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab will tell us about the Festival Clock (Edinburgh Festivals).
15 – 28 August 2011
The Agent Ria: Spelling the Myth
12.20pm – 1.20pm
£4 entry to screening
To book (from 1 Aug): 0131 243 3596
Join us before the screening for an introduction to The Agent Ria channel, its history and approach.
Fringe Venue 18, Sweet Grassmarket: City 2, Apex City Hotel, 61 Grassmarket, EH1 2JF
Box Office: 0131 243 3596
The Agent Ria: 07989 393 397