1 August 2014
Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl
Performative Walk: Meet 10.30am at Summerhall Courtyard
Panel Discussion: 2pm at Creative Scotland, Waverley Gate
Free
Demonstration Room, image courtesy of Summerhall and Peter Dibdin.
Summerhall has many corridors, cupboards and lecture halls; Deveron Arts will lead a two-hour performative walk around it with artists Tim Knowles and Ania Bas, who have been undertaking both urban and rural walking in the UK and elsewhere. This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by curator and writer Dave Beech. Both rural and urban walking artists will take part, including Gill Russell and artist, poet and publisher Alec Finlay.
To book, visit www.deveron-arts.com.
1 August 2014
Discussion and Performance: Thembinkosi Goniwe, Kay Hassan and Feya Faku
12 noon
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Kay Hassan, My Father’s Music Room, 2007-2008, mixed media, installation view, photograph by Wayne Oosthuizen, courtesy of the Artist
Artist Kay Hassan and jazz trumpeter Feya Faku discuss their collaboration together with curator Thembinkosi Goniwe, followed by a chance to hear Feya Faku perform.
1 August 2014
Jamie Nicholl // Rough Edit
5:30-6:30pmIn conjunction with Rough Edit, her exhibition at Interview Room 11, Janie Nicholl will be performing in the gallery space.
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.
2 August 2014
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman: Stop Thief!
12noon
Free, no booking necessary.
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman, Flaghall, 2005, mixed media, installation detail
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’s Flaghall, one of the works in Where do I end and you begin, ,is a space of potential multiple uses – a community hall, exhibition space or meeting place. For this exhibition the artists reimagine Flaghall as a reading room where texts, talks and performances are brought together under the title Stop Thief!
As part of Stop Thief!, visitors to the exhibition at these times will experience live interventions in the gallery.
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.
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.
Art Late is a series of specially programmed late openings and events, taking in live music, performances, artist talks and tours. This year offers even more opportunities to enjoy our programme by night, as we introduce Art Late Central – a chance to take in our festival-led programme in the heart of the city.
Art Late Central begins with a performance from Craig Coulthard in the surroundings of Trinity Apse, where his festival commission The Drummer and the Drone is installed. From there, two tours will leave to take in some of this year's festival projects, including Amar Kanwar's work at the Old Royal High School, Jacqueline Donachie's Mary and Elizabeth in Princes Street Gardens and our exhibition Where do I end and you begin at City Art Centre. Both tours will make their way to City Art Centre for the end of the evening, where there will be a performance from Chris Devotion and the Expectations.
Programmed in association with The List.
8 August 2014
GARAGE: Helena MacGilp
7pm
A performance from medieval music specialist Helena MacGilp.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
8 August 2014
GARAGE: Hyperborea
7pm
Free, no booking required.
Hyperborea will be performing their unique blend of Turkish and Middle Eastern music alongside guest percussionist Florian Shmidinger.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
9 August 2014
Enchanting Things
3pm
Augusto Corrieri, Diorama (2013), Photo by Lucy Cash
To unpack the themes of enchantment, theatricality and the everyday present in Augusto Corrieri and Vincent Gambini's exhibition at Rhubaba, Augusto and Vincent will be joined by Carl Lavery, Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow. Featuring a show and tell by Gambini on his research into magic and misdirection.
John Osborne
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.
John Osborne is a writer and poet whose funny, sweet-natured stories have received critical acclaim and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His show John Peel's Shed was a sell-out at Edinburgh Fringe in 2011. For this Detours performance, he will bring his storytelling talents to the surroundings of Collective's Ross Sinclair: 20 Years of Real Life exhibition.
In association with The List.
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Art Late North 2013, photograph by Kat Gollock
Art Late is our annual series of specially programmed late openings and events, taking in live music, performances, artist talks and tours.
Art Late North 2014 includes a performance from Woven Tents, and takes in exhibitions at a range of galleries and venues north of the Royal Mile.
The evening will begin at Ingleby Gallery at 6pm with a performance from Dloko High School Choir, who are visiting Edinburgh from Umlazi township near Durban, South Africa.
From Ingleby, three tours will leave at 7pm and travel to galleries around the city:
Tour 1
Collective, Travelling Gallery, Stills
Tour 2
RSA, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Travelling Gallery
Tour 3 (by bus)
Old Ambulance Depot, Yann Seznec: Currents, GARAGE, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
All three tours will finish at City Art Centre at 9pm, where there will be a chance to see our exhibition Where do I end and you begin before a performance by Woven Tents.
Programmed in association with The List.
16 August 2014
Counterpoint Performances
6pm
Free, no booking necessary
Edinburgh Art Festival and Talbot Rice Gallery's collaboration for 2014 brings an evening of co-commissioned performances to the surrounds of the gallery’s Counterpoint exhibition.
By creating a website that will be live only for a 3-hour performance period, and creating a temporary ‘Internet Café’ in the Gallery, Jeans & MacDonald will explore the 25 years since the creation of the World Wide Web and the generational time frame since its inception.
Ortonandon, an artist collective consisting of 3 sisters Katie, Sophie and Anna Orton, present Toot Sweet Suit Suite, a unique suit reclamation service that questions social identity, redresses the loss of the bespoke and considers the freedom of dress-down workdays.
In the Georgian Gallery, Alexa Hare will show a series of ‘fan videos’ made for fellow artists, accompanied by live, part-scripted and part improvised performance elements, involving the featured artists and a performed soundtrack.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
Luke Wright: Fat Dandy
contains strong language
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.
Luke Wright is an acclaimed performance poet whose work brings a varied cast of characters to life. His live performances have taken him all over the world, and he is a regular performer at the Edinburgh festivals. For this edition of Festival Detours he will perform in the surroundings of Talbot Rice Gallery's Counterpoint exhibition.
In association with The List.
Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
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
Art Late South 2013, photograph by Kat Gollock
Art Late is our annual series of specially programmed late openings and events, taking in live music, performances, artist talks and tours.
Art Late South will include a performance from The Little Kicks, and will take in exhibitions at a range of galleries and venues south of the Royal Mile.
The evening will begin at Talbot Rice Gallery, with a screening in the Old College Quad and a unique performance from Keith Farquhar (please note: this performance contains nudity).
From Talbot Rice we will lead a tour at 7pm, taking in the following exhibitions:
Interviewroom 11, New Media Scotland, Edinburgh College of Art
The tour will end at Dovecot Studios where there will be a chance to see Dalziel + Scullion's exhibition before a performance from The Little Kicks.
"Before Today" (Acoustic Session) by The Little Kicks
Programmed in association with The List.
23 August 2014
Out of Left Field
3pm
£3 (£2 concession)
Out of Left Field incorporates an exciting variety of elements which serve to challenge and engage with the audience. The performance utilises all of the crucial elements which make up a sporting contest: competitors, security guards, umpires, mascots, scorekeepers, opening ceremony performers and, most importantly, a live audience.
Out of Left Field draws on its participants' strengths in a range of disciplines and blurs the line between art and sport. An interactive piece, the work is brought into existence by the audience’s presence and participation. It encourages them to question the behaviour of crowds, the effect of commentary on real-time happenings, and the characterisation of figures in the public eye. It is an all-inclusive affair; everyone involved plays the game.
26 August 2014
Yann Seznec in conversation with Martin Parker
6.30pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
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.
30 August 2014
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman: Stop Thief!
3pm
Free, no booking necessary.
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman, Flaghall, 2005, mixed media, installation detail
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’s Flaghall, one of the works in Where do I end and you begin, ,is a space of potential multiple uses – a community hall, exhibition space or meeting place. For this exhibition the artists reimagine Flaghall as a reading room where texts, talks and performances are brought together under the title Stop Thief!
As part of Stop Thief!, visitors to the exhibition at these times will experience live interventions in the gallery.
30 August 2014
This is not a magic show!
Doors at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm.
Free admission.
Augusto Corrieri and 'little sheep', Diorama, 2013. Photograph by Lucy Cash.
Gaze in wonder as the art of magic is sliced in two, taken apart, and reassembled right before your very eyes. Somewhere between a performance-lecture and stand-up, This is not a magic show! combines expert sleight-of-hand with rare insights into the principles of magic and misdirection. What are the mechanics of amazement and surprise? Where do magicians learn magic? And why do so many people find them arrogant and irritating? All will be revealed.
Augusto Corrieri and 'little sheep', Diorama, 2013. Photograph by Lucy Cash
By popular demand, Rhubaba have arranged this second chance to see This is not a magic show!
Gaze in wonder as the art of magic is sliced in two, taken apart, and reassembled right before your very eyes. Somewhere between a performance-lecture and stand-up, This is not a magic show! combines expert sleight-of-hand with rare insights into the principles of magic and misdirection. What are the mechanics of amazement and surprise? Where do magicians learn magic? And why do so many people find them arrogant and irritating? All will be revealed.
31 August 2014
Performance: Yann Seznec, Currents
Doors open at 6pm; performance begins at 6.30pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Yann Seznec, Currents, 2014
As the festival draws to a close, we welcome Yann Seznec and the Yann Seznec Fan Club to Trinity Apse for a final performance using the instruments created for his commission Currents. The performance will include a Q&A.