6 August 2013

Man Ray's Women

12.45–13.30pm

Free admission

Man Ray’s photographic portraits of his fellow artists, models, friends and patrons are among the most defining images of the European and American avant-garde from the 1920s onwards. Dr Dorothy Rowe, University of Bristol, will focus specifically on a selection of his portraits of women in relation to the wider networks of the avant-garde in which the photographer and his female sitters circulated.

This event will take place in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre.

6 August 2013

Parley: Katri Walker in conversation with Noe Mendelle

6–7pm

Free admission. Book tickets. 

Artist Katri Walker’s multi channel audio-visual installations are equally at home in the worlds of contemporary art, portraiture and documentary film-making. In this Parley event, the artist will discuss the meeting points between visual art, documentary and film with Noe Mendelle, an internationally renowned documentary maker, Director of the Scottish Documentary Institute and research professor at Edinburgh College of Art.

Walker’s commissioned artwork for this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, jointly commissioned with NVA, uses the Scottish landscape as a medium to explore her wider concerns. An Equilibrium Not of this World was commissioned in association with NVA’s extraordinary Speed of Light project, and draws on running and specifically hill-running to reflect on man’s complex and highly intimate connection to the land.

This event takes place within a major architectural artwork by Krijn de Koning in Edinburgh College of Art’s iconic Sculpture Court. 

6 August 2013

The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act)

7–10pm

Free admission. Book tickets. 

To accompany their presentation of newly commissioned work by Lucy Pawlak, Rhubaba Gallery and Studios will also be presenting a one-off screening at New Media Scotland of the artist's 2011 feature length film, The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act).

In Pawlak's film, a prodigal son returns to his family home, a strange ingrown world deep inside the forest. He intends to train his relations to become actors according to his method. As the program unfolds his obfuscation of the line between fantasy and reality rises alongside his obsession with the “Hero’s Quest”, Hollywood's standard narrative arc.

The structural principles of this monomyth are chewed up and regurgitated in this blackly comic look at roles and patterns within the family and society. The film employs various forms of improvisation around frameworks and reflects upon the potential for autonomy within structure. Masks are worn for the duration allowing for performers to switch between roles.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Lucy Pawlak and guests.

The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act) features The Samsonov Film and Theatre Co-Operative: Joaquin Del Paso, Catriona James, Adrian Gillott, Almira Bekkulova, Francis Moore, Tato Kotetishvili, Susan Pawlak, Gabriela Kite, Fredrik Olssen, Lucy Pawlak, Irek Grzyb and Maria Czechowska. Duration: 90 minutes.

6 August 2013

Gavin Evans: Diving

7pm

To book tickets, please contact Summerhall box office. 

A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the darkest recesses of the human condition. In Diving the film is the lyric,  the violin the voice. Themes of hurt, impulse and desire are exposed in Summerhall's  Dissection Room with the precision of the surgeons scalpel. Harrowing and explosively beautiful Diving explores and reveals suppressed commonalities. Diving demands the audience to look deep within.

This event will be held in the Dissection Room.

6 August 2013

Andrew Gannon: Work with newspaper

7–8pm

Free to attend, no booking necessary.

Andrew Gannon’s live works/performances defy easy classification. He is interested in lightness, in what constitutes work, in how close to nothing something can be and failure as a method of exploring the world.

Work with newspaper is one in a series of performances by Andrew Gannon over August.

6 – 8 August 2013

Sculpture is Fashion

10.00am–3.30pm

£105.00 for the 3-day course including materials, booking essential.

Taking inspiration from the thought provoking works of Jeremy Deller as well as the whole Jupiter collection, this activity based workshop will take you on a creative journey from art into fashion, culminating in the design and display of your own unique fashion piece, created using sustainable and recyclable materials.

The workshop will encourage creative thinking using multimedia, introduce 2D fashion drawing as a design method and explore 3D techniques and materials from fashion, textiles and sculpture.

Workshop led by Juliet Moleta – former lecturer at London College of Fashion and designer for Monsoon.

Suitable for young people with some experience of drawing and painting, students of art and design or those building an art portfolio.

Ages 14-18

To book a place go to http://jupiterartland.org/whatson/38/Sculpture%20Is%20Fashion or email [email protected] or call 01506 889900.

2 – 18 August 2013

Staycation! (Ages 4-12)

2–4:30pm

Free admission

Take off on a magical journey of the imagination this summer. Inspired by the beautiful landscapes featured in our summer exhibitions (Peter Doig and Frederic Edwin Church), create and explore your own fantasy holiday destination, all without stepping foot on a plane!

This event will take place in the Clore Education Centre at the gallery. 

1 August – 1 September 2013

EAF Explorers

Designed for children and families, EAF Explorers is a special activity trail through the art festival. Pick up your free EAF Explorers passport and map from participating galleries and learn about some of the art on show by completing a series of fun, creative activities. Complete each activity and get your passport stamped at each gallery, then show us your stamped passport at Sarah Kenchington's Windpipes for Edinburgh at Trinity Apse to receive a special prize. 

EAF Explorers participating galleries: 

City Art Centre: Mon–Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12–5pm

Dovecot Studios: Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6pm

The Fruitmarket Gallery: Mon–Sun, 10am–7pm (from 27 Aug: Mon–Sat, 11am–6pm; Sun, 12–5pm)

Windpipes for Edinburgh, Trinity Apse: Mon–Sun, 10am–6pm

The EAF Explorers passport and map and entry to the exhibitions related to the activities are free.

EAF Explorers has been developed by Alchemy Arts.

2 August – 1 September 2013

EAF Guided tours

1–1.45pm

Free to join

We'll be running a series of free guided tours throughout the festival - join us for a great way to sample a variety of different works on show and discover new artists. Tours will focus on different aspects of the exhibitions and on different parts of the city. 

Tours will depart from 169 Rose Street.

This is the site of Kenny Watson's The Days & Fascia  and an installation of the first UK showing of Kalleinen and Kalleinen’s The Complaints Choir, a four channel video installation documenting the nine Complaints Choirs created and led by the artists themselves.

1 August – 1 September 2013

Tourists in Residence 2013: The Self-Guided Tour

The Selected Monuments of Edinburgh map can be downloaded.

This year's Tourists in Residence, artists Tom Nolan and Catherine Payton, have created Selected Monuments of Edinburgh, an Edinburgh map, from the unique perspective of artists based in the city. This is a self-directed tour so that you can make your way around the city of Edinburgh in your own time. 

This year's Tourists in Residence have also created the following guided tours: The Debtor's Day Off (11 August & 1 September), A dissociative walk and A symposium (with free tea and coffee).