Anthony Schrag

Tourist in Residence

2 August – 2 September 2012

Anthony Schrag, City is My Playground, 2011, (documentation), photograph by T Kaare Smith

Specially commissioned for the festival, Edinburgh based Anthony Schrag is our Tourist in Residence, running a series of participatory tours which invite you to engage with the city in different ways. Each tour will be unique.

Schrag’s work often borrows from the techniques of Parkour to encourage a different experience of architecture. In an early work, Stairs, screened as part of our Rose Street film programme, Schrag documents himself ‘walking’ up the underneath of a staircase. Despite the obvious gravitational clues of the t-shirt rising up around his neck, our normative eye attempts to read Schrag’s actions as part of the everyday, translating the (accidental) appearance of someone climbing the stair the right way up as a miracle worthy of Christ walking on water.

While Schrag’s work often entails a high degree of athleticism on the part of the artist, his work is more about enabling his audience, encouraging and facilitating a different experience of the city that surrounds them.

Tours will take place on 4, 5, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 25, 29 August

Free, booking required - please select a date below.

St. Andrew Square, EH2 2AD

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