6 August 2014
Dalziel + Scullion in conversation with Edi Stark
6.30pm for 7pm; the exhibition will remain open until 8.30pm
£6 (£5) including drink on arrival. Book tickets.
Dalziel + Scullion, Immersion Garment, 2014, Dalziel + Scullion for Dovecot Studios.
Louise Scullion and Matthew Dalziel discuss their work and inspiration for the project Tumadh: Immersion with broadcaster Edi Stark. From An Lanntair on Lewis to Dovecot in Edinburgh, the two part exhibition provides a platform for conversation around the themes of relations between mankind and the natural world. There will be time to look around the exhibition until close at 8.30pm.
6 August 2014
Scotland's Shrine, The Scottish National War Memorial
12.45pm
Free, tickets available on the door, or in advance from the information desk of the National Gallery
The Scottish National War Memorial is one of the outstanding pieces of public art of its time. A shrine to the nation’s appalling losses in the First World War, it is the masterpiece of its architect, Sir Robert Lorimer and the work of a team of two hundred artists and craftsmen. Like all such projects in Scotland, it roused heated controversy, but once completed was hailed as an extraordinary achievement. The Memorial includes monuments to all the Services, Corps and Regiments that served in the war, but also to the many non-combatants and uniquely to all Scottish women. The outstanding stained glass by Douglas Strachan and the bronze frieze by Alice and Morris Meredith Williams, together with the numerous other sculptures, do more than gather diverse monuments in on one place, however. They also present the wider message of hope that the terrible sacrifice of the First World War should not have been in vain: that it would secure peace and should prove truly to have been ‘the war to end war.’ A lecture by art historian and critic, Duncan Macmillan.
6 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Open Tour
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Join us at the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk every lunchtime during the festival for a free guided tour of parts of our programme. Led by our volunteers, our tours are a great way to find your way through the city and the festival.
Our Open Tours are tailored to our audience’s preferences. Tell us what you’re interested in when you arrive at the Kiosk and we’ll put together an itinerary of city centre galleries, public art and artist-run spaces.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
6 August 2014
Titian in Ten
From 2pm
Free, no booking required
Ten minute pop-up talks delivered by National Galleries Scotland staff. Gain an exclusive insight as staff from across the galleries offer different perspectives on Titian’s masterpieces.
6 August 2014
Festival Detours: Eilidh MacAskill at City Art Centre
3pm
Tickets £4, or a family ticket for four people costs £10. Book tickets.
Ages 8 and above.
Eilidh MacAskill, The conference call of the birds
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.
Eilidh MacAskill is the founder of Fish and Game, a company creating entertaining experimental performances that straddle theatre and live art, with a particular interest in work for children. This performance, set within the surroundings of Edinburgh Art Festival's exhibition of work from around the Commonwealth, Where do I end and you begin, is called The Conference Call of the Birds. It’s created with award-winning composer Greg Sinclair and invites you, the audience, to take on the role of the birds who can’t make it to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games.
In association with The List.
6 August 2014
Film Club: Or Gallery (Vancouver, Canada & Berlin, Germany)
7pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Una Knox, 4 and a half feet to the left, behind me, 2011, video still
This year's Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club considers the themes raised by our exhibition Where do I end and you begin. The programme will explore subjects including post – digital nomadism, non-materialism and the importance of virtual identities. We have invited four emerging artist-run spaces from across the Commonwealth: Or Gallery, Canada; Dog Park Art Projects Space, New Zealand; KHOJ International, India and Embassy Gallery, Scotland to prepare selections of moving image work by promising artists from their countries.
Or Gallery is pleased to present Vigne, a series of short videos by Vancouver-based artists including Aaron Carpenter, Una Knox and Dan Starling. Using the rhizomatic structure of vines as a departure point, the series explores the vignette as a form, but also tangentially considers themes of doubling, identity, and speculation.
Or Gallery is an artist-run space based in both Vancouver and Berlin exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception in 1983 the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.
4 – 9 August 2014
Remote Performances: Broadcasts from Outlandia
4-9 August
For one week in August, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents will be broadcast live from Outlandia, a specially designed treehouse studio and field station located in Glen Nevis.
Both UK and international artists will reflect on ideas of remoteness, history and the tensions between nature and industry, tourism and heritige, whilst transmitting their interactions with the land, in collaboration with art radio station Resonance104.4fm.
The artists involved are:
Bram Arnold • Atlas Arts • Ruth Barker • Ed Baxter (with Resonance Radio Orchestra) • Johny Brown (with Inga Tillere and James Stephen Finn) • Clair Chinnery • Adam Dant • Tam Dean Burn • Benedict Drew • Alec Finlay (with Ken Cockburn) • Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson • Kirsteen Davidson Kelly • Parl Kristian Bjorn Vester (aka Goodiepal) • Sarah Kenchington • Lee Patterson • Michael Pedersen (with Ziggy Campbell) • Geoff Sample • Mark Vernon • Tracey Warr • Tony White
Available through our website on the dates above.
31 July – 17 August 2014
The GENERATOR (Ages 4+)
2-4.30pm
Free, drop in.
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Drop in to the National Gallery art lab and have fun imagining the art of the future. Using the artworks in the GENERATION exhibition as inspiration to experiment, explore and create your own masterpiece! Travel the boundaries between art and music, invent your personal sculptural technique and find out how to 'un-paint' a picture.
31 July – 31 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers 2014, photograph by David Anderson
Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special activity trail through the art festival. Pick up your free activity booklet and map from participating galleries and try a series of fun, creative activities.
Participating galleries:
City Art Centre: Mon–Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12–5pm
Collective: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Dovecot Studios: Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm
All participating exhibitions are free to attend.
EAF Explorers has been developed by Alchemy Arts.
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Dovecot Gallery
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
31 July – 31 August 2014
Art Space
Come and explore the City Art Centre ArtSpace in the Collection Gallery. Have fun experimenting with our inspiring art materials and create landscapes, still lives and portraits. This space is open during normal gallery opening times.
31 July – 31 August 2014
100 Billion Suns
Various dates between 31 July - 31 August
1pm
Contact Ingleby Gallery on 0131 556 4441 or at [email protected] for more details.
Katie Paterson100 Billion SunsConfetti cannon, 3216 pieces of paperInstallation view Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk, Edinburgh, 2014Image courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Ingleby Gallery will stage 10 performances of Katie Paterson’s 100 Billion Suns, timed to mark key events during the Edinburgh Art Festival programme. A hand-held cannon will fire 3,216 pieces of confetti, matching the colour and quantity of all the gamma ray bursts known to have occurred in the universe.
Please contact Ingleby Gallery for further details.
1 – 31 August 2014
Old Royal High School guided walk
Tours leave at 4pm from the City Art Centre reception desk
Every day from the exhibition opening until 31 August we’ll lead a tour from City Art Centre to our second exhibition site at the Old Royal High School on Regent Road, where you’ll discover works by Amar Kanwar and Shilpa Gupta.
1 – 31 August 2014
The House of Adelaida Ivanova
Thu-Sat, 7pm
Free, book your tickets by emailing [email protected].
Villa Design Group present The House of Adelaida Ivanovna, an exhibition of sculptural and scenographic objects providing the set for nightly performances of a new version of Gogol’s drama The Gamblers. The exhibition and performances will form the third part of a year-long project entitled The Inauguration of the Russian Season, dedicated to Villa Design Group’s ongoing research into the lost texts of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and the larger cultural and aesthetic regimes of Tsarist Russia. This line of inquiry continues the group's interest in queer histories, the relationship between objects and subjectivity, the aesthetics of cultural value and the mining of conservative political regimes for new radical potential. Throughout the project, Villa Design Group narrate the process of an architectural competition of proposals for a new library designed to house Gogol’s lost texts.
In this, the third part of the project, Villa Design Group will re-imagine Gogol’s drama and its themes of criminality, homosociality, facades, games, and neurosis as a conference of interior designers discuss the new library. The interior designers present themselves as a cabal of criminals committed to overturning the functional and rhetorical requirements of architecture, whilst trying to find a traitor in their midst; all set within Yves Saint Laurent’s faux Russian dacha, where they play cards.