18 August 2014
Curators' Tours: Agnes Gryczkowska
3pm
Free, no booking necessary
Kay Hassan, My Father’s Music Room, 2007-2008, mixed media, installation view, photograph by Wayne Oosthuizen, courtesy of the Artist
This informal tour, led by Agnes Gryczkowska, Curatorial Assistant for Edinburgh Art Festival and Where do I end and you begin, will introduce the exhibition and its themes.
This workshop will use military technologies such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that are previously unavailable to the public to explore the city space above our heads.
Using devices now available in the shops, the workshop will introduce the technology and its history. This will be followed by a practical workshop to allow the public to both experiment, explore and question the role of this technology in the hands of the public.
This will contribute to the authoring of an essay and book published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
18 August 2014
John Singer Sargent and Plein-Airisme
12.45pm
Free, no booking required
Sargent (1856-1925) is famous as a portrait painter but his output as a landscapist is less widely known, though landscapes outnumber portraits two to one. From boyhood he was an inveterate sketcher, and the habit of painting out-of-doors was reinforced by his art training in Paris in the 1870s. There he was exposed to the latest trends in French art, he became a good friend of Claude Monet and during the 1880s he painted a sequence of Impressionist-inspired landscapes and figure subjects in the English countryside that are as progressive as anything being produced in Britain at the time. Preoccupied with portraits and his great mural cycle for the Boston Public Library in the 1890s, Sargent only returned to landscape post 1900, when he travelled every year to Venice, the Alps and different locations in southern Europe. Immensely varied in subject, his oil paintings and water-colours proclaim his modernist credentials in their cropped, condensed compositions, and their concern with light, pattern, surface texture, marks of the brush and the medium of paint itself. A lecture by Richard Ormond, art historian and great-nephew of the artist.
18 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Open Tour
1pm
Free, no booking necessary.
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
18 August 2014
Designers Talk: Problem solving, story telling and innovating
2-3pm
Free, but limited places. Book your tickets here.
Postgraduate Design students present and discuss their Masters work. An opportunity to get real insight into the diverse research, ideas and ambition of the work presented in this Degree show exhibition. A series of short presentations, Q&A session and tour around the show by MA students from some of the Design Masters programmes: Animation, Fashion, Film Directing, Glass, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Jewellery, Performance Costume, Product Design and Textiles.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
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.