1 August 2014
In conversation: Vidya Shivadas and Nalini Malani
6pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Nalini Malani, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2014, video still
Vidya Shivadas, one of the curators of Where do I end and you begin, leads a conversation with acclaimed Indian artist Nalini Malani. Malani is one of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival commissioned artists, and will create a major outdoor presentation of her work In Search of Vanished Blood on Monday 4 August.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will be making a rare UK appearance talking about her prandogeny project as well as her leading roles as a hugely influential musician (Throbbing Gristle, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Thee Majesty) and leading social activist in the fields of sexuality, identity and gender. The format will be a question and answer session led by Summerhall’s curator, Paul Robertson.
Katie Paterson, Fossil Necklace, 2013, 170 Carved, rounded fossils, spanning geological time. Photo © MJC. Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
Katie Paterson’s artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology.
Paterson will talk about her exhibition Ideas, including her works Fossil Necklace (2013), which captures the history of our planet in a single string of beads, and Second Moon, a year long project in which a fragment of the moon circles the earth via airfreight courier, and which will continue its man-made orbit throughout 2014.
Danie Mellor, Panel from Bayi dambun bala mila, 2014. Mixed media on paper
Join acclaimed Australian artist Danie Mellor and Dr Alison Bracker from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, as they discuss his new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral presents sculpture and work on paper that explores Mellor’s own indigenous and European heritage; drawing inspiration from objects in the museum’s World Cultures collections.The historical and colonial obsessions of Mellor’s work respond to an array of wonders from the worlds of science, technology and nature, suggesting ways of appreciating the complex intertwined narratives of Scotland and Australia.The winner of the 2010 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, and the 2009 Indigenous Ceramics Award, and National Works on Paper Prize in 2008, Mellor has forged a significant place in Australian and international contemporary art.
FAILE and Båst, FAILE Båst Deluxx Fluxx Arcade, 2013
Faile are the Brooklyn based collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller and are regarded as one of the most important of street artists in the world. BAST has been an intricate part of the street art scene for well over 15 years throughout New York and Europe. Together they have produced the amazing games machine DELUXXE FLUXUS ARCADE which will be installed in Summerhall’s basement for the Edinburgh Art Festival and beyond. This is a rare chance to catch three of the innovators of urban intervention and ask them about their work and their history of being graffiti pioneers in the USA. Chaired by Summerhall’s curator, Paul Robertson.
5 August 2014
Craig Coulthard in conversation with Brigadier David Allfrey MBE
4pm
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Craig Coulthard, preparatory sketch for The Drummer and the Drone, 2014
Craig Coulthard’s practice encompasses a broad range of media and scale, from the extraordinarily ambitious (and still evolving) Forest Pitch, to smaller objects often referencing craft traditions. In his Edinburgh Art Festival 2014 commission, The Drummer and the Drone, he imagines a commemoration ceremony of the future, where the heroic deeds of machines are publicly acknowledged and remembered.
Following a screening of the work Craig will discuss the ideas and themes it raises 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.
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.
11 August 2014
Ellie Harrison in conversation with Ewa Jasiewicz
6.30pm
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Ellie Harrison, After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess?, 2014
Ellie Harrison, whose work After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess? was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Talbot Rice Gallery as part of Counterpoint, discusses art, activism and social change with journalist and activist Ewa Jasiewicz.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
12 August 2014
Michelle Hannah and Shona Macnaughton in conversation with John Beagles
6.30pm
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Michelle Hannah, Glass, 2013, photograph by Patrick Jameson
Michelle Hannah and Shona Macnaughton, whose works as part of Counterpoint have been co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Talbot Rice Gallery, discuss their work and practice with John Beagles.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
14 August 2014
Leon Morrocco in Conversation with Richard Demarco
5pm
Tickets £5, including a glass of wine. Book tickets, or call 0131 557 1020..
Leon Morrocco RSA RGI, Passing Basiluzzo, Sicily, 2004
Leon Morrocco in conversation with Richard Demarco will take place within Leon Morrocco’s exhibition Recollection at Open Eye Gallery, which tracks the life and works of a travelling artist. With such broad experiences between them, the two will discuss the role of an explorer, the European tradition of painting and how domestic activity is brought to life in this medium.
Leon Morrocco has received great acclaim for his ability to capture the personality and palette of all places he has worked, from Australia and India to his home in London, his well thought out compositions and vivid use of colour set him aside from his contemporaries. Richard Demarco, fellow artist and co- founder of the Traverse Theatre and Richard Demarco Gallery, now heads the Demarco European Foundation and is known for his varied and prestigious career.
Open Eye Gallery
34 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE
0131 557 1020/558 9872
19 August 2014
Jacqueline Donachie in conversation with Diarmaid Lawlor
7.30pm
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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.
23 August 2014
Tessa Lynch: Artist Talk
2pm
Free with entry to Jupiter Artland.
Tessa Lynch, Selfie (public sculpture) 2013, Courtesy of the artist
Tessa Lynch has put together a panel of experts who will discuss the issues that Raising puts forward. The artist explores areas such as land claiming rights, collective production as a mode of making, contemporary housing and dwelling. The discussion will take place on the sculpture following its construction. A workshop with the artist will precede the talk.
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Nr Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900
26 August 2014
Yann Seznec in conversation with Martin Parker
6.30pm
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Yann Seznec, Currents, 2014
Artist and musician Yann Seznec often uses technology as a medium to reveal natural processes that are imperceptible to the human eye or ear. In his Edinburgh Art Festival Currents he expands his interest in technology as a tool, to consider how it shapes our environment. Computer fans are now a ubiquitous technology, used to cool down machinery when we produce, consume or analyse information. Frequently discarded, the fans point to our obsession with change, as well as the realities of a global economy that make it cheaper to produce anew rather than repair.
Seznec will talk about his work, ideas and approach with composer and sound artist Martin Parker before giving a performance using the instruments specially created for Currents.
27 August 2014
Picture or Poem? The Poetry of Art and the Art in Poetry
6.30pm
Tickets £10 (£8). Book tickets.
Stephen Raw, the textual artist commissioned with creating visual artworks of Carol Ann Duffy’s poems for Poetry for the Palace joins Peter Dayan, the world’s only professor of word and music studies, for a discussion on the complementary art forms of poetry and visual art. They will explore their unique perspectives on themes including what happens to a poem when it becomes visual art and the nature of art in poetry.
The Queen's Gallery
Palace of Holyroodhouse, The Royal Mile, EH8 8DX
0131 556 5100
31 August 2014
Artist Talk and Gallery Tour by Calum Colvin
6pm
An opportunity to hear Calum Colvin talk about his ambitious new exhibition, whilst exploring his archive and new commissions.
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479