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 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.
4 – 5 August 2014
Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood
10.30pm-midnight
Free, no booking necessary.
Nalini Malani is one of four leading international artists invited to make work to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War. To mark the extraordinary moment of the centenary, as part of a joint project with 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Malani develops a new externally-sited presentation of In Search of Vanished Blood. Here the artist’s pictorial plane becomes the city itself, as she uses large-scale projections to cover the full Western facade of Playfair's iconic Scottish National Gallery building on the Mound. Find out more about the project here.
Co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Part of LIGHTS OUT.
With the generous support of the National Galleries of Scotland.
In association with Herb Lester Associates, Dovecot Studios Shop invite craft buyers, weave and book enthusiasts to the launch night of Herb Lester’s new artist illustrated map and guide to the unusual of both Glasgow and Edinburgh. Herb Lester have produced over 43 maps and in their most recent Edinburgh commission they have put ‘Dovecot on the Map’.
8 August 2014
Preview: Captain Lightfoot Presents...
7pm
Free, no booking necessary
Exhibition preview for Captain Lightfoot Presents….an art exhibition organised by Captain Lightfoot that will take place in the Victorian Glasshouse at Lauriston Castle in Edinburgh
The Glasshouse at Lauriston Castle
2a Cramond Road South, EH4 6AD
0131 336 2060
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