24 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
24 August 2012
We Form Geology
12-8pm
For her solo show in Scotland’s only mobile contemporary gallery, Ilana Halperin explores geological and mineral phenomena around Scotland and within the human body.
Her installation will include drawings, etchings, woodblock prints, films, sculptures as well as geologic specimens from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition will also relate to the local geological landscape that the Travelling Gallery will tour through on its journey around Scotland.
The Travelling Gallery will be at a different location in Edinburgh each day.
Free to attend. For locations, please visit www.travellinggallery.com
0131 529 3930
www.geologicnotes.wordpress.com
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
24 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm. To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com.
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
24 August 2012
Festival Detours: Gary McNair at ECA
3.30pm—4pm
In this one-off performance, acclaimed theatre director and performer Gary MacNair presents a unique work in response to the Rachel Mayeri installation Primate Cinema: Apes as Family in the Sculpture Court at Edinburgh College of Art.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 221 6000
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24 August 2012
Launch Event for We Form Geology
5.30-7pm
For her solo show in Scotland’s only mobile contemporary gallery, Ilana Halperin explores geological and mineral phenomena around Scotland and within the human body.
Her installation will include drawings, etchings, woodblock prints, films, sculptures as well as geologic specimens from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition will also relate to the local geological landscape that the Travelling Gallery will tour through on its journey around Scotland.
Free event, booking not required.
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
24 August 2012
The Art Particle
7pm
This talk by Dave Rushton from Art and Language, illustrated with slides and models, will explore several counterfactual moments in art-making citing work by Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and Joseph Kosuth in which working in art seems to resist if not contest representation by appearance.
Tickets: Free/ticketed
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590