4 August 2014
GENERATION Curators Tour
12.45pm
Free, no booking required
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Lucy Askew, Senior Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art, leads an introductory tour of the GENERATION exhibition at Modern One. She will introduce key artists and themes from NGS'S contribution to a nationwide programme of exhibitions and events. This part of the exhibition includes spectacular installations by Ross Sinclair (Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996), Graham Fagen (Peek-A-Jobby, 1998) and Turner Prize-winner Simon Starling (Burn-Time, 2000).
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One)
75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR
0131 624 6200
4 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
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.
For one week in August, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents will be broadcast live from Outlandia, a specially designed treehouse studio and field station located in Glen Nevis.
Both UK and international artists will reflect on ideas of remoteness, history and the tensions between nature and industry, tourism and heritige, whilst transmitting their interactions with the land, in collaboration with art radio station Resonance104.4fm.
The artists involved are:
Bram Arnold • Atlas Arts • Ruth Barker • Ed Baxter (with Resonance Radio Orchestra) • Johny Brown (with Inga Tillere and James Stephen Finn) • Clair Chinnery • Adam Dant • Tam Dean Burn • Benedict Drew • Alec Finlay (with Ken Cockburn) • Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson • Kirsteen Davidson Kelly • Parl Kristian Bjorn Vester (aka Goodiepal) • Sarah Kenchington • Lee Patterson • Michael Pedersen (with Ziggy Campbell) • Geoff Sample • Mark Vernon • Tracey Warr • Tony White
Available through our website on the dates above.
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.
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
Thu-Sat, 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.