15 August 2012
Gallery tour: Wednesday Walkabout
1.15–1.45pm
An informal half-hour tour of the exhibitions, presented by members of the gallery’s team. Free to attend, no booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
15 August 2012
Illuminating Objects
1.30—2.30pm
Drop in and chat with our curatorial experts to find out more about the collections exhibited in One Thousand Points of Light, from fluorescent minerals and fossils to glowing glass.
Free to attend no booking required.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
15 August 2012
A Tapestry of Many Threads
6.30pm (1 hr)
Alexander McCall Smith and composer Tom Cunningham mark Dovecot’s centenary with the world premiere of this dramatic musical production, performed among the looms used to create the tapestries that inspired it.
Tickets: £15 (Sat £16), Concessions £14 (Sat £15), available from www.dovecotstudios.com
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
15 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Embassy/Alexis Milne
9pm–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting premieres of new films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances and introductions from the artists involved.
For this event, Artist Alexis Milne curates an evening of artist films in a programme he calls Bunker Mentality.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Bunker Mentality refers to a defensive state of mind, needed in order to resist and compete with the pervasive media spectacle of advertising, television and film. Video art has been responding to this assault since the 1980’s through subverting found footage in the spirit of Situationist détournement. The aspirations and promises played into living rooms via video cassettes and television could suddenly be re-appropriated, re-sequenced and jump edited to represent a counter-cultural voice and explore new aesthetic relations.
Artists such as The Duvet Brothers and Gorilla Tapes have greatly influenced the next generation of video artists who were growing up in the Thatcherite 80’s and the Blairite ‘90s. This programme attests that video detournement is still a relevant tool in the current conservative climate. Further, these techniques gain new ground in the current decade, as these artists grapple with subjects such as subcultural uprising and neoliberal downsizing.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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