16 August 2012
Panel discussion: The Topography of Memory
2–5pm
Within this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, a number of high profile artists’ projects are directly engaged with the physical terrain of landscape, bringing together elements of Land Art, performance, sculpture, drawing and the notion of a journey. Ideas of participation, exchange or collaboration are at the core of these projects and in the practises of the artists involved.
This afternoon of conversations is an opportunity to discuss the ideas and ambitions informing works including Craig Coulthard’s Forest Pitch and NVA’s Speed of Light, with artists Angus Farquhar and Craig Coulthard, and Edinburgh College of Art academics Edward Hollis, Neil Mulholland and Angela McClanahan. Together they will consider some of the historical precedents for these works, many of which continue to resonate within individual and collective memory.
This event is a collaboration between Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Art Festival and NVA.
Free to attend, booking required.
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 221 6000
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16 August 2012
Artist's Talk/Performance: Alexis Milne
2–3pm
Artist Alexis Milne presents his practise in the informal setting of The Waiting Place, Edinburgh Art Festival's pavilion in St Andrew Square.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. His work traverses video and interventionist performance, utilizing alter egos, the grotesque, and cartoonist parody as tools to comment on the erosion of the authentic and in particular, riot as spectacle. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
During Edinburgh Art Festival, Alexis Milne is also curating an edition of the Rose Street Film Club.
Free to attend.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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16 August 2012
Live Music Now: Spencer-Strachan Duo
6—6.30pm
Rachel Spencer (violin) and Duncan Strachan (cello) respond to the landscapes of Lusieri and the Symbolists with a programme of music by Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841), Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
Free to attend, no booking required.
The Mound, EH2 2EL
0131 624 6200
16 August 2012
Art Late North
6—10pm
Art Late North features late openings and specially programmed performances at Edinburgh Art Festival galleries north of the Royal Mile.
The evening starts at 6pm outside Ingleby Gallery with a collaboration between Edinburgh International Fashion Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival, featuring a dramatic pop-up performance at Callum Innes’s new light installation The Regent Bridge.
Accompanied by live music, the performance will showcase a selection of PLEATS PLEASE Issey Miyake pieces interacting with the subtle glow of Innes’s installation as daylight begins to fade and the colours of The Regent Bridge begin to grow stronger.
Free gallery tours will then depart at 7pm, winding their way through participating galleries including Edinburgh Printmakers, Superclub, Rhubaba, GARAGE, Open Eye Gallery, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Collective and Stills.
The evening will end with an intimate, acoustic performance by contemporary folk singer Alasdair Roberts amongst the Scottish Colourists exhibition at City Art Centre.
Art Late is sponsored by Heineken.
Free to attend, booking required.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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16 August 2012
John Bellany, Life and Work
6.30pm
To celebrate Open Eye Gallery’s retrospective of John Bellany’s paintings, Alexander Moffat OBE RSA will discuss the artist’s life, career and major works.
Free to attend, booking required.
34 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE
0131 557 1020 / 0131 558 9872