10 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Katri Walker
11am–12pm
Katri Walker’s practise explores the space between contemporary art and documentary filmmaking. As part of Speed of Light ‘s investigation of the culture of endurance running, Katri has been jointly commissioned by NVA and Edinburgh Art Festival to make a new work that will create a document or portrait relating to the community of runners. Part of this summer’s Edinburgh International Festival, Speed of Light is a fusion of innovative public art and sporting endeavor, a unique mass choreographed performance of walking and running, in which participants will illuminate Arthur’s Seat each night.
This event will be an opportunity to hear Katri Walker talk about her practice and her approach to this major new commission. Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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10 August 2012
The Ellie & Oliver Show
12—12.30pm
Every Friday during the festival, artists, friends and flatmates Ellie Harrison & Oliver Braid will be broadcasting their radio show live from the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion.
An antidote to the overly serious tendencies of the art world, the Ellie & Oliver Show emphasizes honesty and optimism as its co-hosts help each other negotiate their individual, and sometimes idiosyncratic, ways in the world.
The Ellie & Oliver Show offers a rare insight into the day-to-day lives of two of the freshest and more unusual new voices on the Scottish art scene.
Listen in at: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
10 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Kevin Harman
2—3pm
Artist Kevin Harman talks about his practise and his commission 24/7 for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, in conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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10 August 2012
Festival Detours: Inua Ellams at Talbot Rice
4pm—4.30pm
In this one-off performance, poet, performer and designer Inua Ellams responds in his own particular way to the Tim Rollins & K.O.S. exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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10 August 2012
A Tapestry of Many Threads
6.30pm (1 hr)
Alexander McCall Smith and composer Tom Cunningham mark Dovecot’s centenary with the world premiere of this dramatic musical production, performed among the looms used to create the tapestries that inspired it.
Tickets: £15 (Sat £16), Concessions £14 (Sat £15), available from www.dovecotstudios.com
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
10 August 2012
Denis Buckley: Film screening and performance
10pm till late
In his film Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of My Race, the artist Denis Buckley engages with ideas of identity, loss and home.
Adopting the persona and visual motifs of ‘The Irishman’ from Philip Donnelan’s 1966 documentary of the same name, Buckley’s character is seen returning to Ireland for the last time before his death. Wearing the black suit and white shirt of a labourer, The Irishman drags his steel suit case and a long handled shovel from London to the west coast of Ireland. Once there, he burns his shovel on the beach, signalling the completion of his Nostos or homecoming.
Projected on the courtyard wall at Summerhall for this one-off screening, the film will be accompanied by the artist formally “decommissioning” his shovel, setting the handle ablaze before he departs.
Free to attend, booking required.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
9 – 10 August 2012
Inspired by Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe - A Two-Day Practical Course
10:30—4pm
Led by artist Campbell Sandilands. Inspired by the exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910, learn how to combine woodblock, painting and collage to make your own creative landscapes and colourful compositions.
£60 (£55), buy or collect tickets in advance from Information Desk in the Gardens Entrance of the Scottish National Gallery, or call 0131 624 6560, between 9.30—4.30pm with debit/credit card details.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL