13 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Neville Gabie
2—3pm
Neville Gabie's practice challenges notions of public art and what it can achieve. He has worked with vulnerable communities in rural Australia and refugee camps in Pakistan as well as undertaking residencies in diverse contexts including Antarctica, The Olympic Park and Cabot Circus, a large complex building site in Bristol.
Gabie is currently working in Achiltibuie on the west coast of the Highlands on a project with IOTA supported by Highland Culture Strategic Board. For more information on Gabie's practice, please visit his site or visit IOTA.
13 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: The Hidden Places
2—4pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is running a series of participatory tours which invite you to engage with the city in different ways. Each performance tour will be unique.
This performance: The Hidden Places. A tour of the spaces between the public realm - the alleys and forgotten spaces, the interstitial zones that are essential, and yet undervalued - the places that reveal the mechanics of the facade that Edinburgh presents.
The tour is free to join but booking is essential and numbers are limited.
Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.
13 August 2012
Danny MacAskill: Live on Rose Street
5.30–6.30pm
Danny MacAskill’s spectacular feats with a bicycle have generated worldwide acclaim through his YouTube videos. Rose Street in Edinburgh was once his informal training ground, the place where he honed his skills, and it's to the junction of Rose Street and Castle Street that Danny returns for a live performance commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Though his performances are not immediately understood as visual art, MacAskill shares something with the other artists on show on Rose Street as part of the festival – a playful approach to the possibilities of the urban architecture around him which invites us to reconsider the spaces that his performances animate.
Free to attend.
13 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