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
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.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
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.
9 South College Street, EH8 9AA
0131 668 3635
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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
Curator's Talk: Cheer Up! It’s Not the End of the World…
2—3pm
Co-curator of the exhibition ‘Cheer Up! It’s not the end of the world…’, Dr Norman Shaw will provide insights into the selection of works and set out a critical context for the themes and issues which the exhibition explores.
Free to attend, booking required.
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
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
Curator's Talk: Peter Ballantine
1pm–2pm
Peter Ballantine, artist and curator, spent more than 20 years fabricating Donald Judd’s work. In this talk he examines Judd’s art and philosophy in relation to Working Papers: Donald Judd Drawings 1963-93.
Free to attend. To book, please email [email protected], call 0131 650 2210 or enquire at the reception desk.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
6 August 2012
Kandinsky’s KleineWelten
12.45—1.15pm
Professor Christina Lodder, University of Edinburgh, will focus on the series of 12 prints that Kandinsky made in 1922 at the Bauhaus, which reflect the visual and spiritual qualities of his earlier abstract paintings, but also convey aspects of those utopian ideas that he encountered during the revolution in Russia, where he was living 1914-1921.
Free to attend, no booking required.
73 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DS
7 August 2012
Weaving the Century: Tradition and Modernity at Dovecot Studios
12.45—1.30pm
Elizabeth Cumming, curator of Dovecot's centenary exhibition, explores the evolution of Edinburgh's international tapestry studio since 1912.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
8 August 2012
Illuminating Objects
1.30—2.30pm
Drop in and chat with our curatorial experts to find out more about the collections exhibited in One Thousand Points of Light, from fluorescent minerals and fossils to glowing glass.
Free to attend, no booking required.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
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
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
11 August 2012
Talk: Saturday Social
3–3.30pm
An informal talk based around the current exhibitions of Donald Judd and Tim Rollins & K.O.S., led by gallery staff.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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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15 August 2012
Illuminating Objects
1.30—2.30pm
Drop in and chat with our curatorial experts to find out more about the collections exhibited in One Thousand Points of Light, from fluorescent minerals and fossils to glowing glass.
Free to attend no booking required.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
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
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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
21 August 2012
Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Artist-designed Textiles and Pioneering Modern Art
12.45—1.30pm
Alastair Morton (1910-63) was a pioneering Constructivist artist closely associated with Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. As the director of Edinburgh Weavers, he championed their designs and a host of other artists before and after the Second World War, including William Scott, Keith Vaughan and Cecil Collins. Lesley Jackson, writer, curator and design historian, will tell the hitherto little-known story of Alastair Morton's career as an artist, designer and artistic patron.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
21 August 2012
In Conversation: Andrew Miller and Tim Hetherington
2–3pm
Artist Andrew Miller and Tim Hetherington, Director of Applied Engineering Design Ltd, discuss the challenges in creating a large, public artwork that also serves as a publicly accessible structure.
Applied Engineering Design are the design engineers working with Andrew Miller to realise his ideas for The Waiting Place, a major commission for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival which acts as the pavilion for festival.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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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
Illuminating Objects
1.30—2.30pm
Drop in and chat with our curatorial experts to find out more about the collections exhibited in One Thousand Points of Light, from fluorescent minerals and fossils to glowing glass.
Free to attend, no booking required.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
23 August 2012
2012 Invades Popular Culture: Mayans, Memes, and the End of a World Era
6.30pm
Apocalyptic culture researcher Kevin Whitesides will describe the myths and phenomena related to the end of the world in 2012, as indicated by the end of the ancient Mayan calendar. Kevin is a currently completing a post-graduate dissertation on cultural transmission in the 2012 apocalyptic milieu and has published and presented widely on the subject, including a recent article on the 'End of the World Buffet' for the Fortean Times.
Tickets £5, advance booking required.
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
23 August 2012
Song and Sectarianism
6—6.45pm
Owen Dudley Edwards, historian and author will discuss various songs which have a sectarian past and those with a sectarian present. He will look the history and origins behind the songs, exploring what the authors meant when penning them. With musical accompaniment from Bonnie Dudley Edwards.
Free to attend, booking not required.
1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
24 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.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
24 August 2012
The Art Particle
7pm
This talk by Dave Rushton from Art and Language, illustrated with slides and models, will explore several counterfactual moments in art-making citing work by Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and Joseph Kosuth in which working in art seems to resist if not contest representation by appearance.
Tickets: Free/ticketed
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
25 August 2012
Talk: Saturday Social
3–3.30pm
An informal talk based around the current exhibitions of Donald Judd and Tim Rollins & K.O.S., led by gallery staff.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
25 August 2012
Barbara Hammer: Incorporating ‘The Lesbian Museum’ and ‘The Hidden Hammer’
3pm
Fresh from retrospectives at the Tate Modern, MoMA and Jeu De Paume, the acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema Barbara Hammer showcases some of her radical films and talks about the body of work that has made her an internationally celebrated artist and feminist.
Tickets: £5 (£4)
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
28 August 2012
Picasso and the Ballets Russes in London
12.45—1.30pm
Picasso significantly visited London for three months in the summer of 1919 to work on the 'Spanish' ballet, The Three-Cornered Hat, which premiered at the Alhambra, Leicester Square, on 22 July. This provided the climax for Picasso's involvement with Serge Diaghilev's innovative company and was a supreme example of how Diaghilev involved the greatest artists of his time to design his productions. A talk by Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
29 August 2012
Illuminating Objects
1.30—2.30pm
Drop in and chat with our curatorial experts to find out more about the collections exhibited in One Thousand Points of Light, from fluorescent minerals and fossils to glowing glass.
Free to attend, no booking required
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
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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31 August 2012
The Scandinavian Landscape
12.45—1.30pm
Scandinavian nineteenth-century landscape painting assimilated developments in Western Europe, but adapted them to capture the grandeur and atmosphere of the North, producing sublime and emotionally charged pictures of natural formations and light effects. Professor Christina Lodder, University of Edinburgh, will explore this tradition and its relationship to Edvard Munch’s landscapes, which are often seen as intense and innovative images reflecting inner turmoil rather than a physical terrain.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
1 September 2012
Talk: Saturday Social
3–3.30pm
An informal talk based around the current exhibitions of Donald Judd and Tim Rollins & K.O.S., led by gallery staff.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210