1 August 2014
Festival bus to Jupiter Artland
Departs from West Register House, Charlotte Square at 10am
Returns from Jupiter Artland main gates to West register house at 3pm
Tickets £8.50, including entry to Jupiter Artland. Book tickets.
Catch the bus from Edinburgh city centre to Jupiter Artland each Thursday and Friday throughout Edinburgh Art Festival. The cost of this return journey includes entry to Jupiter. Places will be limited.
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
America in the Gilded Age: A Nation on the Brink
12.45pm
Free, no booking required
Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History, Edinburgh University considers the social, economic and political development of the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Having just emerged from a very bloody civil war, the United States underwent a series of profound transformations as the nineteenth century drew to a close. These included explosive growth - geographic, demographic and economic - and an increase in social tensions and conflict. Its growing wealth made the nation more confident culturally at the very time that internal divisions threatened to undermine the its experiment with republic government. As the nation grew in strength it was increasingly riven by social, racial, and class tensions which threatened its well being. By 1900 the United States was a nation on the brink.
1 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Open Tour
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Join us at the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk every lunchtime during the festival for a free guided tour of parts of our programme. Led by our volunteers, our tours are a great way to find your way through the city and the festival.
Our Open Tours are tailored to our audience’s preferences. Tell us what you’re interested in when you arrive at the Kiosk and we’ll put together an itinerary of city centre galleries, public art and artist-run spaces.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
1 August 2014
Little Sparta: Weekly Bus Trips
Departs 1.30pm from Ingleby Gallery
Tickets £30. Book tickets.
Little Sparta, the celebrated garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay, is located 25 miles from the centre of Edinburgh in a rural setting in the Pentland Hills.
There will be a minibus service running from Ingleby Gallery to Little Sparta every Friday afternoon at 1.30pm during Edinburgh Art Festival 2014.
1 August 2014
Curator led tour of Isa Genzken Botanical Garden
2-2:45pm
Free, no booking required
Paul Nesbitt and Chloe Reith lead tours of the exhibition.
Inverleith House
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR
0131 248 2971/2849
Amar Kanwar, The Scene of Crime, 2011, colour HD video, installation view Courtesy of Amar Kanwar and Marian Goodman Gallery Paris/ New York
A panel of artists and curators involved in Where do I end and you begin will discuss the themes of community and what we hold in common, as explored in the exhibition.
1 August 2014
In conversation: Vidya Shivadas and Nalini Malani
6pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Nalini Malani, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2014, video still
Vidya Shivadas, one of the curators of Where do I end and you begin, leads a conversation with acclaimed Indian artist Nalini Malani. Malani is one of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival commissioned artists, and will create a major outdoor presentation of her work In Search of Vanished Blood on Monday 4 August.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will be making a rare UK appearance talking about her prandogeny project as well as her leading roles as a hugely influential musician (Throbbing Gristle, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Thee Majesty) and leading social activist in the fields of sexuality, identity and gender. The format will be a question and answer session led by Summerhall’s curator, Paul Robertson.
1 – 31 August 2014
Old Royal High School guided walk
Tours leave at 4pm from the City Art Centre reception desk
Every day from the exhibition opening until 31 August we’ll lead a tour from City Art Centre to our second exhibition site at the Old Royal High School on Regent Road, where you’ll discover works by Amar Kanwar and Shilpa Gupta.
1 – 31 August 2014
The House of Adelaida Ivanova
Daily, 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.
31 July – 17 August 2014
The GENERATOR (Ages 4+)
2-4.30pm
Free, drop in.
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Drop in to the National Gallery art lab and have fun imagining the art of the future. Using the artworks in the GENERATION exhibition as inspiration to experiment, explore and create your own masterpiece! Travel the boundaries between art and music, invent your personal sculptural technique and find out how to 'un-paint' a picture.
31 July – 31 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers 2014, photograph by David Anderson
Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special activity trail through the art festival. Pick up your free activity booklet and map from participating galleries and try a series of fun, creative activities.
Participating galleries:
City Art Centre: Mon–Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12–5pm
Collective: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Dovecot Studios: Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm
All participating exhibitions are free to attend.
EAF Explorers has been developed by Alchemy Arts.
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Dovecot Studios
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
31 July – 31 August 2014
Art Space
Come and explore the City Art Centre ArtSpace in the Collection Gallery. Have fun experimenting with our inspiring art materials and create landscapes, still lives and portraits. This space is open during normal gallery opening times.
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.
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.