2 August 2012
Emily Speed: Human Castle
3—4pm
A one-off performance work by Emily Speed for this year’s festival.
Through her wide ranging practise, Speed considers architecture not as an isolated built form but rather as a space to be inhabited, a container for human experience and memory.
Free to attend, but booking is essential. Performance will be in West Princes Street Gardens.
Performance in West Princes Street Gardens
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2 August 2012
Performance and Panel Discussion: Ross Sinclair, We Love Real Life Scotland
4—6pm
Over the last 20 years an important thread of Ross Sinclair's wide-ranging practice has sought to address the very particular nature of the individual, collective and national identities of the small, damp Northern-European nations sometimes known as Scotland.
Join the artist and a range of speakers for a performance and discussion to celebrate the launch of Sinclair’s book investigating the heritage of the Gordons and other Scottish Incidences.
Panel speakers include Craig Richardson (Northumbria University), David McCrone (author of Scotland the Brand) and Claudia Zeiske (Deveron Arts).
Admission is free, booking is required, please contact:
The Mound, EH2 2EL
0131 225 6671
Please visit Deveron Arts website for further project details: www.deveron-arts.com
The Mound, EH2 2EL
0131 225 6671
4 August 2012
A Tapestry of Many Threads
7.30pm (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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
4 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Things to do on Rose Street
11am—12pm
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: Things to do on Rose Street. Part of an on-going exploration of the standardization of movement by the urban environment. This is an invitation to view the artist as he engages with the architecture along Rose Street.
The performance is free to join and all are welcome, but booking required. Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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4 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Parkour Workshop
2—5pm
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: Parkour workshop. Taking inspirations from his performance earlier the same day, this workshop will teach the basics of urban climbing and develop a new tour performance with all of the participants.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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4 August 2012
Festival Detours: Nic Green at Jupiter Artland
3.30pm—4pm
In this one-off performance, acclaimed theatre director and performer Nic Green responds in her own particular way to Rivers by Tania Kovats at Jupiter Artland.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
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4 August 2012
Performance: Carolee Schneemann, Mysteries of the Iconographies
3–4pm
A rare opportunity for a UK audience to hear from artist Carolee Schneemann as she gives a performative lecture entitled Mysteries of the Iconographies, as part of her exhibition Remains to be Seen at Summerhall.
Free to attend but booking is required. Please call the box office on 0845 874 3001 to secure your ticket.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
5 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Unsensory Tour
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: Unsensory Tour. How do we relate to a city that presents itself in such visual terms? What does the city become without sound? A tour explores how our bodies interface with Edinburgh.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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5 August 2012
The House of Fairy Tales launch event
11am–5pm
Founded by artists Deborah Curtis and Gavin Turk, The House of Fairy Tales work with creative practitioners to produce interactive narratives and highly immersive environments for children and families.
Children and families are invited to join The House of Fairy Tales at their art installation Newsroom at White Stuff on George Street and get involved in making the news.
The media centre will be training young reporters for a day of exchanging stories, comedy and magic. Audiences can enjoy the Daily Show at 4pm, for child-led, surreal reporting on the Edinburgh festivals.
Free to attend.
White Stuff, 2nd Floor, 89 George Street, EH2 3ES
6 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
7 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
7 August 2012
Festival Detours: Joe Dunthorne at National Museum of Scotland
3.30 — 4pm
In a unique performance written for this year's festival, Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, responds in his own particular way to the work of Melvin Moti at National Museum of Scotland.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
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7 August 2012
Festival Detours: Joe Dunthorne at National Museum of Scotland
4.15 — 4.45pm
Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, will be giving a second performance responding to the work of Melvin Moti at National Museum of Scotland.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
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8 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Calvin Laing
9pm–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting curated screenings artists' films, accompanied by performances and introductions from the artists involved.
For this edition of the Rose Street Film Club, artist Calvin Laing presents new work.
Through his highly intriguing works, Laing explores the potential of objects and situations by making interventions into a given environment. Whilst engaged with performance art as a way to preserve the liveliness and immediacy of his ideas, Laing’s films challenge our perceptions of how live performances are altered and re-performed through the act of being filmed. Laing graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 and has exhibited in Estonia, Iceland, and Florence.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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10 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
10 August 2012
Festival Detours: Inua Ellams at Talbot Rice
4pm—4.30pm
In this one-off performance, poet, performer and designer Inua Ellams responds in his own particular way to the Tim Rollins & K.O.S. exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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11 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Walking Beauty
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: Walking Beauty. Exploring Edinburgh and its relationship to the classical/romantic notion of “beauty” through performance - tracing the arc of the Fibonacci sequence (The Line of Beauty) through the city and exploring “high art and architecture” contrasted by its dirty and forgotten alleyways.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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12 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
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.
Crossing of Rose Street and Castle Street, EH2
14 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
14 August 2012
Festival Detours: Simon Munnery at Ingleby Gallery
1—1.30pm
In this one-off performance, comedian Simon Munnery responds in his own particular way to the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay at Ingleby Gallery.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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14 August 2012
Danny MacAskill: Live in St Andrew Square Gardens
1–2pm
Danny MacAskill’s spectacular feats with a bicycle have generated worldwide acclaim through his YouTube videos. Danny returns for a live performance in St Andrew Square Gardens as part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
Though his performances are not immediately understood as visual art, MacAskill shares something with the commissioned artists on show – 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.
For a place in the viewing gallery, offering the best views of the performance, please book - there are 100 tickets for the viewing gallery.
St. Andrew Square, EH2 2AD
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15 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
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
15 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Embassy/Alexis Milne
9pm–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting premieres of new films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances and introductions from the artists involved.
For this event, Artist Alexis Milne curates an evening of artist films in a programme he calls Bunker Mentality.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Bunker Mentality refers to a defensive state of mind, needed in order to resist and compete with the pervasive media spectacle of advertising, television and film. Video art has been responding to this assault since the 1980’s through subverting found footage in the spirit of Situationist détournement. The aspirations and promises played into living rooms via video cassettes and television could suddenly be re-appropriated, re-sequenced and jump edited to represent a counter-cultural voice and explore new aesthetic relations.
Artists such as The Duvet Brothers and Gorilla Tapes have greatly influenced the next generation of video artists who were growing up in the Thatcherite 80’s and the Blairite ‘90s. This programme attests that video detournement is still a relevant tool in the current conservative climate. Further, these techniques gain new ground in the current decade, as these artists grapple with subjects such as subcultural uprising and neoliberal downsizing.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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16 August 2012
Art Late North
6—10pm
Art Late North features late openings and specially programmed performances at Edinburgh Art Festival galleries north of the Royal Mile.
The evening starts at 6pm outside Ingleby Gallery with a collaboration between Edinburgh International Fashion Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival, featuring a dramatic pop-up performance at Callum Innes’s new light installation The Regent Bridge.
Accompanied by live music, the performance will showcase a selection of PLEATS PLEASE Issey Miyake pieces interacting with the subtle glow of Innes’s installation as daylight begins to fade and the colours of The Regent Bridge begin to grow stronger.
Free gallery tours will then depart at 7pm, winding their way through participating galleries including Edinburgh Printmakers, Superclub, Rhubaba, GARAGE, Open Eye Gallery, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Collective and Stills.
The evening will end with an intimate, acoustic performance by contemporary folk singer Alasdair Roberts amongst the Scottish Colourists exhibition at City Art Centre.
Art Late is sponsored by Heineken.
Free to attend, booking required.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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16 August 2012
Artist's Talk/Performance: Alexis Milne
2–3pm
Artist Alexis Milne presents his practise in the informal setting of The Waiting Place, Edinburgh Art Festival's pavilion in St Andrew Square.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. His work traverses video and interventionist performance, utilizing alter egos, the grotesque, and cartoonist parody as tools to comment on the erosion of the authentic and in particular, riot as spectacle. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
During Edinburgh Art Festival, Alexis Milne is also curating an edition of the Rose Street Film Club.
Free to attend.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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17 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Footie in the Alley
3—5.30pm
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: Footie in the Alley. A free-form football match going from one side of Rose Street to the other. Exploring the notion of free-form play as essentially how we make sense of the world around us, participants can join in, change sides and navigate their own rules.
The tour is free to join and all are welcome, but booking required. Tours will commence from The Waiting Place at St. Andrew Square.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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21 August 2012
Festival Detours: Molly Naylor at The Fruitmarket Gallery
6pm—6.30pm
In this one-off performance, acclaimed poet Molly Naylor responds to the exhibition Dieter Roth: Diaries at The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
45 Market Street, EH1 1DF
0131 225 2383
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21 August 2012
Poetry Reading: Ian Hamilton Finlay
4.00-4.30pm
To celebrate the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition Twilight Remembers at Ingleby Gallery, Alec Finlay will read some of Ian Hamilton Finlay's poems, selected from the newly published Selections (University of California Press, edited and with an introduction by Alec Finlay).
The reading will take place at the Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion, in the north west corner of St Andrew Square Gardens.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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22 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Rhubaba Gallery & Studios
9–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting screenings of films, curated by artists, in Rose Street's oldest public house.
For this edition of The Rose Street Film Club, Rhubaba Gallery & Studios present: A Lecture on Everything.
A selection of films from Rhubaba's Members' Archive, featuring work by:
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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23 August 2012
Art Late South
6—10pm
Art Late South features late openings and specially programmed performances at Edinburgh Art Festival galleries south of the Royal Mile.
The evening starts at 6pm at Dovecot Studios for a tour of Weaving The Century and a screening of Tim Taylor's Swimming the City in the weaving studios, a former public swimming baths.
A free tour will depart at 7pm, winding its way to several participating galleries before arriving at Summerhall for a performance by Muscles of Joy, an experimental, all-female seven piece art-folk/post-punk band who's recent debut album was longlisted for Scottish Album of the Year Award.
Exhibitions are open late at participating galleries including Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, Melvin Moti's One Thousand Points of Light at National Museum of Scotland, New Media Scotland and Summerhall.
Free to attend, booking required.
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
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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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25 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Pub!
3—7pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is running a series of performance tours which invite you to engage with the city in different ways. Each tour will be unique.
This performance: Pub! An alternative pub crawl that explores the identity of Edinburgh though Scotland’s favourite pastime - drinking. Moving along Rose Street’s various pubs, the discussions will be guided by visiting speakers, questions to prompt discussion, as well as historical facts and images.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Nap!
2.30—4pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is our Tourist in Residence during the festival. For his final participatory event he invites you to join him in St Andrew Square - or wherever you are - for a communal afternoon nap.
The intention of this project is to create a “dream tour” of Edinburgh – an event that encouraged you to dream-up your own city. If the rain is keeping you away from taking part in this event, you can still take part in your office or in your home with the help of these instructions from the artist Anthony Schrag.
Edinburgh Is A Mad God’s Dream (Hugh McDermot)
If rain prevents you from joining us at The Waiting Place for Nap!, why not join in wherever you happen to be.
Since we live in a digital world that allows us to do things together while being apart, please take part in this event by having a nap between 2.30–4pm and dreaming of Edinburgh.
To help you dream about the city in new ways, Anthony's prepared an audio track for you to listen to while napping which you can play by clicking here – it features a selection of texts drawn from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” in which a fictional Marco Polo describes to Gengis Khan the different and varied cities he has seen on his travels.
You can send an image of your napping experience to [email protected] which will help us build up a document of all those napping.
We look forward to seeing images of you napping!
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
Festival Detours: Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit) at New Media Scotland
3.30pm—4pm
In this one-off performance, singer/songwriter Scott Hutchison of the band Frightened Rabbit responds to the work of ~ In the Fields at New Media Scotland.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
1 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB
0131 650 2750
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29 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Deborah Jackson & Neu Reekie
9–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting special evening screenings of films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances.
For this edition, curator Deborah Jackson and Neu! Reekie! present six spoken word, musical and mixed arts retorts/reactions/ruptures, each sparked by the six artists films on show, which include Tim Taylor’s, Emily Speed’s Human Castle and Anthony Schrag’s Stairs.
Neu! Reekie! are Scotland's foremost avant-garde noise-makers. Co-chief, circus master, poet and playwright Michael Pedersen will be joined by two of Neu! Reekie!’s favourite rabble-rousers: Davy Henderson, frontman of The Sexual Objects and Jesus, Baby; and Craig Finnie, psychedelic guitarist behind Callel, Emelle and Moscow Madhouse.
Prepare for the literal, the lucid and luscious // the spiritual, the sanguine and the surreal.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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29 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Ruth Ewan
11am
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Ruth Ewan was born in Scotland, and now lives and works in London. Ewan's work takes many forms including performance, installation and printed matter. Her practice explores overlooked area of political and social history, reviving forgotten thought and ideas and highlighting their continued relevance today. Often celebrating activists and radical thinkers, Ewan's work encourages collaboration and participation - in the past she has worked with historians, traditional craftsmen, musicians and school children.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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30 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Alison Watt
12 noon
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. Her exquisitely painted canvases depicting swathes of fabric edge towards the abstract whilst retaining a strange, almost sensual quality suggestive of a human presence.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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30 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Kevin Harman
4pm
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Kevin Harman was born in Edinburgh in 1982. Exploring the everyday to find the extraordinary, harman works across media, often using the very objects in which he finds his inspiration as the principle component of his artworks. Harman's sculptures, prints, films and drawings serve as trophies of the creative process, giving us cause to consider the act of making as equally as important as the end product.
24/7 was Kevin Harman's commission for Edinburgh Art Festival 2012, for which he spent 24 hours in ASDA to source the materials for his installation.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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31 August 2012
The Ellie & Oliver Show
12—12.30pm
The last broadcast of the Ellie & Oliver Show during the festival promises to be as honest, engaging and as fun as the ones which have come before it. Listen in at: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
And after the show, join Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid as they host Ellie & Oliver's Afternoon Special, a live event at the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion, St. Andrew Square.
To find out more about the Ellie & Oliver Show, visit: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
31 August 2012
Ellie & Oliver's Afternoon Special
1—4pm
After their final broadcast from the festival, artists Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid will be hosting a daytime disco at the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion, and you are invited.
Come and show your best moves in broad daylight, accompanied by an eclectic mix of upbeat Ellie & Oliver Show-style tunes, and enjoy soft drinks and falafel from the winner of the 'Falafel Friday Lunchclub Award'.
Free to attend, but please book your place so we know how much falafel to bring.
To listen to the Ellie & Oliver Show, go to www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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1 September 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Claire Barclay
12 noon
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Claire Barclay is a Scottish artist known for large-scale installations consisting of collections of sculptural objects brought together into precisely plotted relationships. Combining craft and machine-finished processes, and both everyday and precious materials, Barclay's art is precariously balanced between function and dysfunction, understanding and bafflement.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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1 September 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Andrew Miller
4pm
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist working across a variety of media - drawing, sculpture, photography and site-specific installation. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making Miller seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function. He works with the worn and the discarded, and in salvaging, reassembling and re-presenting familiar objects he attmpts to ask questions about the way things are placed, valued and used.
Andrew Miller was commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival to design the The Waiting Place, the pavilion for this year's festival.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
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