2 August 2013

Parley Discussion: Real Life Parledonia (curated by Ross Sinclair)

2–5pm

Free admission. Book tickets. 

 

Artist Ross Sinclair adopts the role of ring master to direct a loose array of speakers, performers and artists, in debating questions such as: 'what is Parley? And what is Caledonia? And how might they come together locally, nationally and internationally? What is the job description of 'artists' in a small damp Northern European country in 2013? What is a 'creative life' and how can the idea be articulated by ourselves and others at this particularly complicated moment in time?'.

 

This event will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court. 

2 August 2013

Parley for Power

5:30–6pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

 

Based in a world where cats and dogs engage in wild debate over issues of identity and independence. A vote will determine whether they rid themselves of the moniker of 'pet' and all associated ties to their petitude. 

Parley for Power is a short play written for the festival by poet Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!) and award-winning playwright/novelist Alan Bissett. 

Performed alongside visuals and puppets crafted by artist Carla Easton and with music written and performed by Easton (TeenCanteen) and Eugene Kelly (of indie legends The Vaselines).

Parley for Power promises humour, pathos, a potpourri of philosophy, plus the odd dash of something political. 

 

This performance will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court. 

6 August 2013

Parley: Katri Walker in conversation with Noe Mendelle

6–7pm

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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. 

8 August 2013

Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Daniel Padden, Colin Broom and eagleowl and friends

7–8.30pm

£7.50. Book tickets. 

 

An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.

Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival.

 

This concert includes performances of works composed by Daniel Padden, Colin Broom and eagleowl and friends.  

 

Daniel Padden is a composer and musician based in Scotland. His music involves a myriad different instruments and sound sources, moving between countless styles. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe and North America, as a solo artist and as a member of both Volcano The Bear and The One Ensemble.

 

Colin Broom is a Scottish composer. He was the founder and co-director of Invention Ensemble from 1998 - 2004. He has worked with several ensembles including Icebreaker, Orchestra of Opera North, Edinburgh Quartet, Tyrolean Ensemble for Contemporary Music, South Bank Gamelan and Red Note. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

 

Having honed their craft over the last 8 years, slowcore miserabilists eagleowl released their critically acclaimed debut album this silent year on Fence Records earlier in the year. For this project they will be collaborating with friends from other Edinburgh acts including Broken Records, Meursault and Nap Sholty.

10 August 2013

Parley Discussion: Is all this hot air worth it?

1.30–4pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

 

Artistic activity produces tonnes of CO₂ – particularly the international movement of artists, artworks and audiences. What responsibility do artists and arts organisations have to use the form, content and framing of their work to address climate change? With a provocation from the artists Collins & Goto, Creative Carbon Scotland’s discussion invites contributions from across the arts.

13 August 2013

Parley: Peter Liversidge and Brigadier David Allfrey MBE

1–2pm

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For this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, the artist Peter Liversidge has invited anyone in the city with a flagpole to fly a white flag which bears the text: HELLO, offering residents and visitors a collective and universal greeting during the capital’s busiest month.

 

In this Parley event, the artist discusses the role and meaning of flags and emblems with Brigadier David Allfrey MBE, producer of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, former commander of 51 Scottish Brigade in Stirling and member of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

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

13 August 2013

Parley: Robert Montgomery in conversation with Ryan Van Winkle

6–7pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

 

Robert Montgomery is a London-based, Scottish artist who works in post-situationist tradition. His practice is based on capturing audience’s attention through intervening in urban spaces, and therefore questioning the language and voice of private commercial interests on public streets.

Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Montgomery’s new sculptural poem, created in oak and situated on The Mound, will be burnt on the opening day of the festival. This is an opportunity to hear the artist talk about his work for the festival and about his wider practice. 

 

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, performer, podcaster and Edinburgh City Libraries' Reader in Residence. His first collection, 'Tomorrow, We Will Live Here', was published by Salt in 2010. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012. He is the co-host of  the poetry podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library.

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

15 August 2013

Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Colin Broom and Muris

8–9.30pm

£7.50. Book tickets. 

 

 

An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.

Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival.

This concert includes performances of works composed by Colin Broom and Muris.  

 

Colin Broom is a Scottish composer. He was the founder and co-director of Invention Ensemble from 1998 - 2004. He has worked with several ensembles including Icebreaker, Orchestra of Opera North, Edinburgh Quartet, Tyrolean Ensemble for Contemporary Music, South Bank Gamelan and Red Note. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

 

Muris are a conceptual composition and improvisation group, led by Neil Davidson and Liene Rozite. Both musicians are also members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and crypto conceptual science fiction anti band Asparagus Piss Raindrop.

19 August 2013

Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Daniel Padden and Brian Irvine

7–8.30pm

£7.50. Book tickets. 

 

 

An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.

Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival. Each concert in the series will feature a different performance programme of works. 

This concert includes performances of works composed by Daniel Padden and Brian Irvine. 

 

Daniel Padden is a composer and musician based in Scotland. His music involves a myriad different instruments and sound sources, moving between countless styles. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe and North America, as a solo artist and as a member of both Volcano The Bear and The One Ensemble. 

 

Brian Irvine is Northern Irish composer whose body of work reflects an obsessive love of music creation in all its forms. It includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale community oratorios, film and dance scores as well as numerous ensemble, solo, chamber pieces. Together with his own 12 -piece ensemble (BBC Radio 3 music award winners) he has toured extensively throughout the world. For the last four years he has been the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster.

20 August 2013

Parley: Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson in conversation with Katie Overy

7-8 pm

Free admission. Book here.

 

For Edinburgh Art Festival, the composers Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson are working with residents of the capital to develop The Complaints Choir of Edinburgh - an amateur choir that will sing their complaints and gripes to the city in a series of public performances. Padden and Nicholson have collaborated together in the past through the work in The One Ensemble, and together and independently have both developed a keen following for their experimental compositions and performances.

 

In this event, Daniel Padden and Peter Nicholson will be in conversation with Katie Overy. Katie Overy is a Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She is also the director of the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development (IMHSD) and the Programme Director for MSc in Music in the Community.

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

21 August 2013

Christine Borland and Brody Condon Tour: Daughters of Decayed Tradesmen

6pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

 

Join the artists Christine Borland and Brody Condon at New Calton Burial Ground for a discussion of their new work Daughters of Decayed Tradesmen, commissioned for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.

 

The location, New Calton Burial Ground, originally belonged to the Society of Incorporated Trades of Calton, and so became the final resting place for the many artisan craftsmen who were its members. Each headstone proudly declares a lifetime dedicated to honing a particular trade including 'upholsterer', 'jeweller' and 'tanner', as well as the changes in professions across generations. The watchtower within which Borland and Condon's work is installed is one of the towers in Edinburgh cemeteries built in an attempt to address a growing problem of body snatchers, who sold the recently dead to the anatomy schools. 

 

Invited speakers include Susan Buckham from Edinburgh World Heritage & Ian Robertson from The Convenery of The Trades of Edinburgh.

 

This tour will meet at the watchtower in New Calton Burial Ground.

26 August 2013

Concert: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh including work by Brian Irvine and eagleowl and friends

7–8.30pm

£7.50. Book tickets. 

 

 

An intimate concert performance of new works composed for artist Sarah Kenchington's Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, an extraordinary new musical instrument created from over 100 decommissioned organ pipes and installed in Trinity Apse, a 15th Century Kirk.

Contemporary composers with a range of musical styles and interests have been commissioned to produce new pieces for Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, which will be performed in a series of concerts during the festival. Each concert in the series will feature a different performance programme of works. 

 

This concert includes performances of works composed by Brian Irvine and eagleowl and friends. 

 

Brian Irvine is Northern Irish composer whose body of work reflects an obsessive love of music creation in all its forms. It includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale community oratorios, film and dance scores as well as numerous ensemble, solo, chamber pieces. Together with his own 12 -piece ensemble (BBC Radio 3 music award winners) he has toured extensively throughout the world. For the last four years he has been the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster.

 

Having honed their craft over the last 8 years, slowcore miserabilists eagleowl released their critically acclaimed debut album this silent year on Fence Records earlier in the year. For this project they will be collaborating with friends from other Edinburgh acts including Broken Records, Meursault and Nap Sholty.

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. 

31 August 2013

Parley Discussion: Tae Think Again, Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland (curated by Rachel Maclean)

2–5pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

 

Responding to the upcoming 2014 referendum on Scottish Independence, this symposium curated by artist Rachel Maclean intends to delve deeper than a simple yes/no debate and look at the broader social, cultural and historical background to a discussion of contemporary Scottish national identity. The event will begin with a screening of the artist's recent work The Lion and the Unicorn. 

 

This event is co-commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers and Edinburgh Art Festival, and will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court. 

 

Speakers include Craig Coulthard, David Cameron, David McCrone, Duncan Petrie and Denise Mina. The event is chaired by Jim Tough, introduction by Alastair Snow.