19 August 2012

Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Breakfast Tour

7—10am

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: Breakfast Tour.  An early morning walk around the city when its cold and quiet -exploring the city when it is not a city, but a collection of buildings with sleeping bodies inside them. Breakfast and coffee/tea provided, with help from the Mana House Bakery. 

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. 

19 August 2012

Artist's Talk: ~ in the fields

2—3pm

~ in the fields is an Edinburgh based artistic partnership between Nicole Heidtke and Stefan Baumberger, who have a show at New Media Scotland and a networked installation in St Andrew Square as part of Edinburgh Art Festival. 

~ in the fields’ work emphasises natural phenomena and condenses poetic moments into inventions of autonomous, cocooned systems. Their visual art practice draws on archival material, environmental topics and ephemeral artefacts, such as lost forms of cinema.

They found the starting point for their exhibition on the Shetland Islands where their research into oceanic plastic pollution led them to investigate the very elements and definition of Scottish landscape and seascape more closely.

Free to attend, booking required.