1 August 2013
Robert Montgomery: burning of Edinburgh Fire Poem
10–10.30pm
Free admission
Join us as artist Robert Montgomery sets light to his commissioned work to bring the opening day of the festival to a close. Part sculpture, part performance, Montgomery's poem, sculpted in oak will burn fiercely with the castle as a backdrop, and its charred remains will stand as testimony to its burning for the duration of the festival.
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
3 August 2013
Steel Harmony
1–5pm
Contact Jupiter for booking details.
To celebrate the opening of Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's exhibiton, the Caribbean steel drum band Steel Harmony - another of Deller’s long-term collaborators - will perform covers of hits by Joy Division, Buzzcocks and other seminal UK indie bands.
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Nr Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
3 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
4 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by Elizabeth Murphy and Emily Speed from The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
The Royal Standard is an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace. It was established in 2006 by four Liverpool-based artists as a space for emerging contemporary artists that would operate somewhere in between the city’s grass-roots DIY initiatives and the more established arts institutions. This multi-purpose project space offers a testing ground for artists to push their ideas in new directions, and a setting for more spontaneous events and activity.
This film night looks at notions of melodrama, dance, hysteria and glamour. Special entertainment and services will be available during intermissions. Selected artists include Catherine Payton, Andrew Gannon, Serena Korda, Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry, Romany Dear, NOW NOW Collective and Ursula Mayer.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Continuum is an immersive, visceral experience featuring work by visual artist Catherine Street, poet JL Williams and composer improvisers Martin Parker and Owen Green.
At the heart of this performance, Street's film Continuum derives its intense sound and images from the exhausted body of the artist. Street is shown engaged in a sensual and bodily encounter, not only with the physical world but also with the conceptual world of mathematical ideas. She probes her physical limits and at the same moment gives voice to a text that seems to explore those limits in cool theoretical terms. Live readings by Street and Williams weave hallucinatory narratives that allude to the experiential world of human perception alongside a theoretical conception of time and space. William’s rich, emotive delivery is contrasted with Street’s precise voice. Taking cues from the intense audio of the film, Green and Parker’s live performances fill the space with sound that builds in intensity over time. On engaging with this sensory experience and the sometimes disturbing impressions evoked by the performances, the audience is liable to feel a strong emotional response, perhaps of unease, fascination or exhilaration.
The film Continuum was shot by filmmakers Ben Ewart-Dean and Daniel Warren, with sound by Owen Green and performance by Catherine Street and Dmitry Ser. Initially created as part of an artist commission for the Human Race exhibition, funded by Legacy Trust UK and Creative Scotland, Continuum was first presented with support from Generator Projects, Dundee.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
8 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
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.
9 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
10 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
11 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
11 August 2013
Art Cycle Tour: Emerging artists & Modern masters
11am–1.30pm
Free to join, booking essential. Book tickets.
A guided bicycle tour of some of the festival exhibitions on the outskirts of the city centre.
Leaving from the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk on George Street, this tour will introduce you to some emerging artists spaces in the New Town and in Leith, before moving onto Inverleith House and then onto The National Gallery of Modern Art.
The pace on this tour will be leisurely and we'll avoid main roads but you should be experienced and confident at riding in the city. The tour is suitable for ages 16+.
All riders will be responsible for their own safety. All riders must bring their own bikes and are asked to bring a spare innertube in case of puncture. All bikes must be in a well maintained state. We would prefer riders to wear helmets but this is left to your discretion. Riders are asked to wear flat shoes not cleats for the sake of the galleries' floors!
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
Winner of the New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, the poet Billy Letford has received rave reviews for his work which combines experimental structure with cadences and accents of ordinary speech to produce “moments of transcendental insight” (The Guardian). Here, the poet brings his unique voice to the exhibition Coming into Fashion, a Century of Photography at Conde Nast.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
13 August 2013
Parley: Peter Liversidge and Brigadier David Allfrey MBE
1–2pm
Free admission. Book tickets.
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by GENERATOR Projects, Dundee.
GENERATOR Projects is a non-profit artist-run gallery and exhibition space, currently the only dedicated one of its kind in Dundee. Established in 1996, it is devoted to bringing the best possible artists to work within, and occasionally out with, the gallery space to enhance the cultural vibrancy of the city and its people. GENERATOR Projects also kindly sat on the selection panel for the open submissions to this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival.
Selected artists include Reluca Iancu, Jack Paton and Dorian Braun, Angel Zorn, Jack and Dorian, Sarah Lundy, Pawel Grzyb, Sam Spreckley, Bryan M. Ferguson, Maeve Brennan, Christopher McGinnis, Ben Skea, Adam Knight and Aaron McCarthy.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Art Late North is a specially programmed evening of late openings, performances, music, talks and tours involving Edinburgh Art Festival galleries north of the Royal Mile.
This year, Art Late North starts with a performance of new music by Muris, written for Sarah Kenchington's amazing Wind Pipes for Edinburgh instrument installed in Trinity Apse.
A number of tours will then wind their way to participating galleries including Canongate Venture, Edinburgh Printmakers, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Ingleby Gallery, GARAGE, Old Ambulance Depot, Open Eye Gallery, Patriothall Gallery, Rhubaba, The Royal Scottish Academy and Stills, before then joining up at City Art Centre for an exclusive live performance by FOUND.
You are free to join the tours or to make your own way, but please note that gallery closing times differ - click here to download a copy of the schedule with all details.
Please note: The performances have limited capacity. Those who book their place in advance and attend the start of the evening will be given priority access. Other attendees will be let in on a first-come, first-served basis until the venue's capacity is reached.
If you missed out on an Art Late North ticket the following galleries are open late to the public:
Until 9pm
GARAGE is open 7pm - 9pm
Until 8pm
In association with:
15 August 2013
Free bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from EAF Kiosk at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at EAF Kiosk at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the EAF Kiosk on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
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.
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
The band GOL uniquely fuse traditional Persian arrangements with contemporary electronica, jazz and world music. For the Art Festival, GOL will give a one-off performance within the Nam June Paik Resounds exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
16 August 2013
Free bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from EAF Kiosk at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at EAF Kiosk at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the EAF Kiosk on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
17 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
18 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
18 August 2013
Art Cycle Tour: To Jupiter and back!
11am–2.30pm
Free to join, booking essential. Book tickets.
A guided bicycle tour to Jupiter Artland which includes the chance to see works by Sam Durant, Marc Quinn, Jim Lambie, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane amongst others, and an exclusive introduction from the artist Sara Barker to her major new work which has been commissioned for this year's festival. The tour will be given free entry to Jupiter Artland.
The tour will leave from the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk on George Street.
This tour is for committed cyclists - you must be comfortable riding in a group and on roads - including some busy city roads. The total distance of the return journey is over 20 miles and the riding pace will be around 14-15mph.
All riders will be responsible for their own safety. All riders must bring their own bikes and a spare innertube and pump in case of puncture. All bikes must be in a well maintained state. We would prefer riders to wear helmets but this is left to your discretion. Some refreshments will be provided at Jupiter Artland but it is suggested that riders bring some cash should they wish to purchase something to eat.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
18 August 2013
The Art of Afternoon Tea
2–5pm
£25, booking essential
Tickets include a guided tour of two exhibitions, afternoon tea and a cocktail.
This is an exclusive guided tour of two Edinburgh Art Festival exhibitions, followed by afternoon tea at the Forth Floor Restaurant with an art-inspired menu. This event is run in conjunction with Harvey Nichols Edinburgh.
Starting at the City Art Centre with an introduction to Coming into Fashion, A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, you can view works by iconic photographers including Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Corinne Day and Mario Testino.
This is followed by a tour of Man Ray Portraits, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The first major museum retrospective of this highly influential artist’s photographic portraits, the exhibition includes his iconic images of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli and of his muses Lee Miller and Kiki de Montparnasse.
After feasting your eyes, The Art of Afternoon Tea at the Forth Floor Restaurant offers a delicious menu that celebrates these iconic photographs in a unique interpretation by our talented chefs.
Tickets include entry and a guided tour to two exhibitions, afternoon tea and a cocktail. To read more about the menu visit the Harvey Nichols Edinburgh website.
For more information or to make a reservation please call 0131 524 8350 or email [email protected]
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
Harvey Nichols
30-34 St. Andrew Square, EH2 2AD
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, poetry and theatre.
Lead singer with Idlewild, Woomble is highly acclaimed for his solo releases of contemporary folk, and will perform an acoustic set in response to the exhibition From Fleece to Fibre at Dovecot Studios.
Festival Detours is presented in association with The List.
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
The Telfer Gallery from Glasgow is presenting this week’s programme of film screenings which will include a live networking event during the interval.
The Telfer Gallery provides a space of production and presentation for creative practitioners. It is a platform for focused experimentation within a studio environment allowing time for a productive and critical dialogue to occur organically. Telfer’s programme provides wide-ranging opportunities including residencies and an events space used for hosting a variety of public and private gatherings.
For this Film Club evening The Telfer Gallery have invited a Nottingham based artist, Bruce Asbestos, to show another episode of his Social Media Takeaway, Special Episode: Networked. The Social Media Takeaway is Bruce Asbestos’ series of short, whirling and buoyant videos made for YouTube. Bruce will be producing a special episode for the Film Club.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Art Late South is a specially programmed evening of late openings, performances, music, talks and tours involving Edinburgh Art Festival galleries south of the Royal Mile.
This year, Art Late South starts at Edinburgh College of Art with a special performance of Parley for Power, a musical play written by Alan Bissett and Neu Reekie's Michael Pedersen, with puppets and music by Carla Easton of TeenCanteen and Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines.
Tours then depart for galleries including Dovecot Studios, New Media Scotland and Summerhall. The final performance was from The Merrylees in the Georgian Gallery of Talbot Rice Gallery.
As part of Edinburgh International Book Festival, Cornelia Parker will be in conversation with Iwona Blazwick, one of Britain’s leading curators and the author of a major new book on Parker’s work which includes the 9-metre shotgun Parker created at Jupiter Artland.
Cornelia Parker’s art could be described as beautifully brutal. She shot to fame exhibiting Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass case, and later blew up a garden shed so she could display the haunting remains.
This event will be held in the ScottishPower Studio Theatre at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
22 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
22 August 2013
Book Launch: Craig Coulthard's Forest Pitch
4:30–5:30pm
Free to attend.
Forest Pitch saw the creation of a full size football pitch deep within a commercial forest in the Scottish Borders as a major part of the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad. A book celebrating the project is being published by Edinburgh College of Art.
The book launch will be held in the Sculpture Court.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Parley for Power is a short play written for the festival by poet Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!) and award-winning playwright/novelist Alan Bissett.
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.
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 as part of Art Late South, an evening of gallery tours and performances. Please note, tickets for Parley for Power do not guarantee entry to other performances at Art Late South - though we will happily accommodate you if there's space.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
23 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of George Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
24 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
25 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland is available once daily from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
25 August 2013
The Art of Afternoon Tea
2–5pm
£25, booking essential
Tickets include a guided tour of two exhibitions, afternoon tea and a cocktail.
This is an exclusive guided tour of two Edinburgh Art Festival exhibitions, followed by afternoon tea at the Forth Floor Restaurant with an art-inspired menu. This event is run in conjunction with Harvey Nichols Edinburgh.
Starting at the City Art Centre with an introduction to Coming into Fashion, A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, you can view works by iconic photographers including Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Corinne Day and Mario Testino.
This is followed by a tour of Man Ray Portraits, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The first major museum retrospective of this highly influential artist’s photographic portraits, the exhibition includes his iconic images of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli and of his muses Lee Miller and Kiki de Montparnasse.
After feasting your eyes, The Art of Afternoon Tea at the Forth Floor Restaurant offers a delicious menu that celebrates these iconic photographs in a unique interpretation by our talented chefs.
Tickets include entry and a guided tour to two exhibitions, afternoon tea and a cocktail. To read more about the menu visit the Harvey Nichols Edinburgh website.
For more information or to make a reservation please call 0131 524 8350 or email [email protected]
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
Harvey Nichols
30-34 St. Andrew Square, EH2 2AD
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by CIRCA Projects, Newcastle.
CIRCA Projects is a Newcastle based non-profit organisation with a curatorial position. CIRCA Projects’ work is mainly based in the presentation and production of new art works and projects. Run by three curators, it uses various sites and partnerships to realise its exhibition programme, in doing so it can address different audiences. Outputs take the form of exhibitions, events, commissioned artworks and publications.
Circa's film and video screening, titled Diamond Dust, looks at the augmented realities of the internet, computer games, image modelling. Including works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, Jerome LOL, John Rafman, Adham Faramawy, Zoe Williams, Craig Mulholland, Olivia Dunbar, Richard Whitby, Jaakko Pallasvuo.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
29 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland running once daily is available from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the shuttlebus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
30 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland running once daily is available from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
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.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
31 August 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland running once daily is available from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.
1 September 2013
Free return bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from Queen Street at 10.30am, arrives at Jupiter Artland at 11am.
Departs from Jupiter Artland at 3pm, arrives at Queen Street at 3.30pm.
Free admission. Book tickets.
A free return bus to Jupiter Artland running once daily is available from the city centre during the Edinburgh Art Festival, leaving from and returning to the corner of Queen Street and Frederick Street.
Tickets for the bus also allow free entry to Jupiter Artland. Booking essential.
Please note that this bus will only run Thurs-Sun. Jupiter Artland is closed to the public Mon-Wed.