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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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.
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)
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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
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
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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9 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Calvin Laing
2–3pm
Artist Calvin Laing discusses his practise in the informal setting of The Waiting Place, Edinburgh Art Festival's pavilion in St Andrew Square.
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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9 August 2012
Electric Bookshop
6.30 - 8.00pm
7th edition of the Electric Bookshop, looking at the future of books and the written word. Curated by Peggy Hughes, Padmini Ray Murray and Claire Stewart.
Free to attend.
1 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB
0131 650 2750
10 August 2012
Denis Buckley: Film screening and performance
10pm till late
In his film Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of My Race, the artist Denis Buckley engages with ideas of identity, loss and home.
Adopting the persona and visual motifs of ‘The Irishman’ from Philip Donnelan’s 1966 documentary of the same name, Buckley’s character is seen returning to Ireland for the last time before his death. Wearing the black suit and white shirt of a labourer, The Irishman drags his steel suit case and a long handled shovel from London to the west coast of Ireland. Once there, he burns his shovel on the beach, signalling the completion of his Nostos or homecoming.
Projected on the courtyard wall at Summerhall for this one-off screening, the film will be accompanied by the artist formally “decommissioning” his shovel, setting the handle ablaze before he departs.
Free to attend, booking required.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
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
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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14 August 2012
Danny MacAskill in conversation
11am–12pm
This is a rare opportunity to hear stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill talk about his career and how he got started, in conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Danny MacAskill is also giving two demonstration performances on 13th and 14th August as part of Edinburgh Art Festival and some of his films are available to view as part of the Rose Street Film Programme.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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16 August 2012
Live Music Now: Spencer-Strachan Duo
6—6.30pm
Rachel Spencer (violin) and Duncan Strachan (cello) respond to the landscapes of Lusieri and the Symbolists with a programme of music by Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841), Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
Free to attend, no booking required.
The Mound, EH2 2EL
0131 624 6200
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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17 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm.
To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
17 August 2012
Whistler, Debussy and the Nocturne
12.45—1.30pm
Whistler’s enemies derided his Nocturnes for their vagueness. Whistler replied that he wasn’t trying to paint nature, he was trying to create harmony, in the same way as musicians. Debussy, when he wrote his Nocturnes for orchestra, was inspired by Whistler’s paintings, and seemed to be suggesting that his music could work like those paintings. Peter Dayan, University of Edinburgh, compares Whistler’s Nocturnes with Debussy’s,conjuring up that invisible common ground where the two arts meet.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
20 August 2012
Northern Consciousness and National Identity: Edvard Munch in Scotland
12.45—1.30pm
In 1931, the 38th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists included twelve paintings by Edvard Munch. The controversy the show generated acted as a catalyst for debate on ‘modernism’ within Scottish art, and also on national art and identity.Dr Venda Pollock, Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University, will examine the 1931 SSA exhibition and reflect on its impact within debates on national identity in Scottish Art.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
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
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm. To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com.
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
24 August 2012
We Form Geology
12-8pm
For her solo show in Scotland’s only mobile contemporary gallery, Ilana Halperin explores geological and mineral phenomena around Scotland and within the human body.
Her installation will include drawings, etchings, woodblock prints, films, sculptures as well as geologic specimens from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition will also relate to the local geological landscape that the Travelling Gallery will tour through on its journey around Scotland.
The Travelling Gallery will be at a different location in Edinburgh each day.
Free to attend. For locations, please visit www.travellinggallery.com
0131 529 3930
www.geologicnotes.wordpress.com
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
25 August 2012
We Form Geology
11-5pm
For her solo show in Scotland’s only mobile contemporary gallery, Ilana Halperin explores geological and mineral phenomena around Scotland and within the human body.
Her installation will include drawings, etchings, woodblock prints, films, sculptures as well as geologic specimens from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition will also relate to the local geological landscape that the Travelling Gallery will tour through on its journey around Scotland.
The Travelling Gallery will be at a different location in Edinburgh each day.
Free to attend. For locations, please visit www.travellinggallery.com
0131 529 3930
www.geologicnotes.wordpress.com
Portobello High Street, EH15 2AW
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
We Form Geology
Due to an unfortunate crash last week, The Travelling Gallery is now going in for repairs and we have had to cancel our Edinburgh venues.
For upcoming locations throughout Scotland, please visit www.travellinggallery.com
0131 529 3930
www.geologicnotes.wordpress.com
31 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm.
To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
31 August 2012
Blue Moon Picnic
6—9pm
To celebrate the Blue Moon and the completion of Tania Kovats’s work Rivers, Jupiter Artland are hosting a picnic in the grounds of their sculpture garden. Jupiter will supply the picnic, all visitors need to bring is their own rug or chair to sit upon.
Tickets £25, to book please call 01506 889900.
Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
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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31 August 2012
We Form Geology
Due to an unfortunate crash last week, The Travelling Gallery is now going in for repairs and we have had to cancel our Edinburgh venues.
For upcoming locations throughout Scotland, please visit www.travellinggallery.com
0131 529 3930
1 September 2012
Kevin Harman: Everything Must Go!
5–7pm
From 6am on Sunday 29 July, artist Kevin Harman spent a consecutive period of 24 hours in an Asda Supercentre outside Edinburgh. Everything in 24/7, the artist’s installation for Edinburgh Art Festival, has been created from his purchases during this 24 hour period, with new works being made in the space over the duration of its exhibition.
And on Saturday 1st September, everything must go!
The final element of 24/7 is the sale of everything in the exhibition space. The artist and Edinburgh Art Festival are hosting an auction and nothing can be left. Come to view the Lots, place your bids and grab yourself a bargain.
A full listing of lots is available at the exhibition space or can be downloaded here.
How to bid:
To attend the auction on Saturday 1st September and bid in person, please register here.
If you are unable to attend the auction, sealed bids can be submitted in advance from Thursday 30th August using the official bid slip, which can be downloaded here or obtained from the exhibition space. Completed bid slips should be submitted to an EAF staff member at the exhibition space or returned by email to [email protected], and must be received by 12 noon on Saturday 1st September.
For each Lot, the highest bid wins.
Please note: some works on sale will not be able to be removed from the space on the day of the auction due to scale. See full listing of lots for details and an indication of delivery costs.
24/7 at 169 Rose Street, (behind The Roxburghe Hotel), EH2 4HQ
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