29 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Ruth Ewan
11am
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Ruth Ewan was born in Scotland, and now lives and works in London. Ewan's work takes many forms including performance, installation and printed matter. Her practice explores overlooked area of political and social history, reviving forgotten thought and ideas and highlighting their continued relevance today. Often celebrating activists and radical thinkers, Ewan's work encourages collaboration and participation - in the past she has worked with historians, traditional craftsmen, musicians and school children.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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29 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
29 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
29 August 2012
Anthony Schrag, Tourist in Residence: Nap!
2.30—4pm
Artist Anthony Schrag is our Tourist in Residence during the festival. For his final participatory event he invites you to join him in St Andrew Square - or wherever you are - for a communal afternoon nap.
The intention of this project is to create a “dream tour” of Edinburgh – an event that encouraged you to dream-up your own city. If the rain is keeping you away from taking part in this event, you can still take part in your office or in your home with the help of these instructions from the artist Anthony Schrag.
Edinburgh Is A Mad God’s Dream (Hugh McDermot)
If rain prevents you from joining us at The Waiting Place for Nap!, why not join in wherever you happen to be.
Since we live in a digital world that allows us to do things together while being apart, please take part in this event by having a nap between 2.30–4pm and dreaming of Edinburgh.
To help you dream about the city in new ways, Anthony's prepared an audio track for you to listen to while napping which you can play by clicking here – it features a selection of texts drawn from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” in which a fictional Marco Polo describes to Gengis Khan the different and varied cities he has seen on his travels.
You can send an image of your napping experience to [email protected] which will help us build up a document of all those napping.
We look forward to seeing images of you napping!
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
Festival Detours: Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit) at New Media Scotland
3.30pm—4pm
In this one-off performance, singer/songwriter Scott Hutchison of the band Frightened Rabbit responds to the work of ~ In the Fields at New Media Scotland.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
1 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB
0131 650 2750
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29 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Deborah Jackson & Neu Reekie
9–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting special evening screenings of films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances.
For this edition, curator Deborah Jackson and Neu! Reekie! present six spoken word, musical and mixed arts retorts/reactions/ruptures, each sparked by the six artists films on show, which include Tim Taylor’s, Emily Speed’s Human Castle and Anthony Schrag’s Stairs.
Neu! Reekie! are Scotland's foremost avant-garde noise-makers. Co-chief, circus master, poet and playwright Michael Pedersen will be joined by two of Neu! Reekie!’s favourite rabble-rousers: Davy Henderson, frontman of The Sexual Objects and Jesus, Baby; and Craig Finnie, psychedelic guitarist behind Callel, Emelle and Moscow Madhouse.
Prepare for the literal, the lucid and luscious // the spiritual, the sanguine and the surreal.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
Scotts Bar, 202 Rose Street, EH2 4AZ
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