27 August 2013

The Travelling Gallery: This Land

Free admission

This Land presents a beautifully alternative view of the Scottish landscape through works by artists with a diverse range of practices, including Henry Coombes, Andy Holden, Hannah Imlach, Michael Reisch and Iain Sarjeant. 

Initially located for the festival beside the City Art Centre, The Travelling Gallery - Scotland's unique mobile gallery of contemporary art - will then visit various venues within the city before touring the exhibition around Scotland. 

23-24 August: 11am - 6pm at City Art Centre

27 August: 11am - 5pm at Hawes Promenade in South Queensferry

28 August: 11am - 5pm at Festival Square on Lothian Road

29 August: 2 - 5pm at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

30 August: 11am - 5pm on the High Street in Portobello (outside Bank of Scotland)

27 August 2013

Man Ray's Portraits of Duchamp: Questions of Identity

12.45–13.30pm

Free admission

To what extent can 'identity' be conveyed in conventional portrait photography? In Man Ray's early career this issue was central to his dialogue with his friend and collaborator Marcel Duchamp, and was addressed directly in several of Man Ray's portraits of Duchamp, especially those of Duchamp  dressed up as his female alter-ego, Rrose Selavy. Professor David Hopkins, University of Glasgow, will examine themes of identity, gender and portraiture as they are dramatised in these photographs, contextualising them in relation to Dada and Surrealism.

This event will take place in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre.

27 August 2013

Parley: Krijn de Koning in conversation with Edward Hollis

6–7pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

Krijn de Koning is a Dutch Artist, based in Amsterdam, whose monumental and playful installations deal with the question of how we experience architectural space. The artist will discuss his work and its implications with architect, teacher and writer Edward Hollis, Deputy Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art and author of ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’ and ‘The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors’.

Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh College of Art, the artist has produced an ambitious new work for the extraordinary space of the college’s Sculpture Court in what is his first ever UK exhibition. This event takes place within de Koning’s installation. 

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).