19 August 2014
An Introduction to the Artist Rooms Research Partnership
12noon
Free, but please book in advance here.
Find out about this exciting partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, and hear about the range of events and activities curated by MSC students over the last year and about plans for next year. With Professor Neil Cox, Director and Sara Carter, MSc student intern.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
19 August 2014
Titian as Draughtsman
12.45pm
Free, no booking required
For a highly productive artist whose career stretched over seven decades, remarkably few drawings by Titian have come down to us. Aidan Weston-Lewis, Chief Curator at the Scottish National Gallery, examines this problematic area of Titian’s work, and makes the case for an important addition to the small group of surviving drawings by him.
19 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Festival Projects
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Jacqueline Donachie, preparatory sketch for Mary and Elizabeth, 2014
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. All tour routes are flexible and can be altered depending on your interests; if there’s an exhibition you really want to see just ask and we’ll try to fit it in.
This tour will include our public commissions and festival-led programme. The tour will take in both temporary and permanent publicly sited works in unusual corners of the city, alongside works as part of our exhibition of contemporary art from around the Commonwealth, Where do I end and you begin.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
19 August 2014
Spotlight Tour
3pm
Free, no booking necessary
Shilpa Gupta, Where Do I End and You Begin, 2012, neon
Explore the exhibitions at City Art Centre with the help of our Visitor Assistants. Each day there will be a different tour relating to our varied exhibitions. There's no need to book: please meet at reception.
A portable loop system is available to amplify the speaker. The fm loop system is compatible with hearing aids with a T-switch and can be used with headphones.
19 August 2014
GARAGE: Guest Curator Ali MacGilp
4pm onwards
5pm: Compensation Culture
6pm: Beyond is Before
Events curated by Ali MacGilp.
Compensation Culture: a series of three performance pieces and three installations.
Beyond is Before: A film by Deniz Uster following the story of a sole Pakistani survivor in the freezing cold of a future Dubai.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
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.
Singer-songwriter Neil Pennycook plays solo and unplugged in one of his last performances as Meursault in the surroundings of New Media Scotland's Alt-w exhibition.
In association with The List.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
19 August 2014
Jacqueline Donachie in conversation with Diarmaid Lawlor
7.30pm
Free, but please book tickets. Book tickets.
Jacqueline Donachie, Mary and Elizabeth, 2014. Photograph by Stuart Armitt.
Artist Jacqueline Donachie works largely outside formal gallery contexts, often making work in collaboration with specialist disciplines, or with the direct involvement of the general public. Fascinated by public space, her recent work has explored how we navigate towns and cities.
Donachie’s Edinburgh Art Festival commission Mary and Elizabeth connects history with the present day through an evanescent line of red pigment journeying through the city, and linking two sculptures situated on either side of the railway line which cuts right through the centre of Princes Street Gardens.
In this talk Donachie will discuss her work wirh Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism at Architecture Design Scotland, in the surroundings of Princes Street Gardens, taking attendees on a tour of her creative process from Mary to Elizabeth.
Attendees should meet at Mary, in East Princes Street Gardens.
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.