3 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.
3 August 2012
Artist's Talk: James Casebere
12–1pm
James Casebere and Stills' Curator David Grinly discuss Construction and Postmodernism in photography in relation to Casebere's latest series of works. Free to attend, booking required.
Stills, Scotland's Centre for Photography
23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP
0131 622 6200
3 August 2012
Picasso Through the Eyes of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose
12.45—1.45pm
Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, gives a personal insight into the relationship between Picasso and his family, drawing on material held in the Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection of which he is the director.
£5 (£4), Buy or collect tickets in advance from Information Desk in the Gardens Entrance of the Scottish National Gallery, or call 0131 624 6560, between 9.30am-4.30pm with debit/credit card details.
3 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Susan Philipsz at St. Cecilia's Hall
2–3pm
A rare opportunity to hear Susan Philipsz discuss her work in the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall, the oldest concert hall in Scotland. The Turner Prize winner will discuss the ideas that have informed Timeline, her commissioned work for the festival and the artist's first ever work in Edinburgh, and its relationship to other recent works.
Free to attend, booking required.
St. Cecilia's Concert Hall
Cowgate, EH1 1NQ
(St Cecilia’s Hall is located in the Cowgate, just off Niddry Street)
3 August 2012
Cinema as Primatology, with artist Rachel Mayeri
5—6.30pm
Creativity is considered to be a divide between humans and other species, but do we share basic preferences for novelty and perhaps even for form and content with our closest relations?
Coinciding with Rachel Mayeri’s installation, Primate Cinema: Apes as Family at Edinburgh College of Art, this panel discussion will explore similarities and differences in perception, cognition and socio-emotional behaviour between humans and chimpanzees, through the perspectives of artists Rachel Mayeri and Andrea Roe and The Arts Catalyst's curator Dr Rob La Frenais.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
3 August 2012
Preview: “Soviet Grand Designs”
6—8pm
Opening of the exhibition “Soviet Grand Designs” with a talk by the curator, John Barkes.
Free to attend, please email [email protected] or tel. 0131 668 3635 to reserve your seat.
Scotland-Russia Institute
9 South College Street, EH8 9AA
0131 668 3635
3 August 2012
Lying and Liars on Film
6pm
Lying and Liars on Film brings together a range of short experimental film works that mix reflexive and experimental forms as ways of investigating the inadequacies of language. The inspiration for this programme is the work of British novelist and filmmaker B.S. Johnson.
Artist Mick Peter and writer and curator Steven Cairns programmed this screening, which coincides with Peter’s new exhibition at Collective Gallery that also features Johnsons 1969 film Paradigm.
The programme will include:
B.S.Johnson, Fat Man on a Beach, 1973
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, The Adventure of a Good Citizen, 1937
Tony Steyger and Steve Hawley, Language Lessons, 1994
Peter Greenaway, H is for House, 1976
Nathaniel Mellors, Seven Ages of Britain trailer
Tickets are £5 and can be booked from Filmhouse. Alternatively, if you purchase a Collective Summer School ticket, this screening event is included.
3 August 2012
Private View of We are all U.F.O-nauts
7—9pm
A private view launch event for the group exhibition We are all U.F.O-nauts at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios.
Free to attend, no booking required.
3 August 2012
Private View of Thingsplace
7-10pm
A private view launch event for John Brown's exhibition Thingsplace at Superclub Gallery and Studios.
Free to attend, no booking required.
3 August 2012
Canal boat trip with Tania Kovats
To celebrate the opening of Rivers, Jupiter Artland have scheduled a canal boat trip, travelling through the city and its environs to Jupiter along the Union Canal. During this 3 hour trip, guests will have the chance to speak to Tania Kovats about her new work before experiencing this and other installations at Jupiter Artland.
Please note, the boat trip is now fully booked.