31 August 2014

GENERATION Tours at the Academy Building

11am, 1pm

Free, no booking necessary

Free discussion-led tours of the GENERATION exhibition focusing on key themes and artists.

31 August 2014

Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Art on the Boundaries

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. All tour routes are flexible and can be altered depending on your interests; if there’s an exhibition you really want to see just ask and we’ll try to fit it in.

This tour explores work by artists whose work crosses the boundaries between music, performance and visual art in galleries around the city centre. 

31 August 2014

Tourists-in-Residence: Walking Tour

2pm. Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets. This tour will begin from St Margaret's Loch, off Queen's Drive. 

Stephanie Mann and Andrew Gannon are this year’s tourists-in-residence, offering the unique perspectives of artists based in Edinburgh to those who join them on their tours. In a new collaboration, Gannon and Mann will explore ideas about what a tour might be. Establishing three different tour structures, the artists will rely on improvisation, collaboration and participation to explore how content can be generated, observed, discussed and documented. 

All ages are welcome, the more the merrier, on this hour long walking tour led by a mystery guest.

As part of their time as Tourists-in-Residence, Gannon and Mann have produced a special print: pick up your free copy by visiting our Kiosk on George Street. 

31 August 2014

Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman: Stop Thief!

3pm. Free, no booking necessary. 

Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’s Flaghall, one of the works in Where do I end and you begin, ,is a space of potential multiple uses – a community hall, exhibition space or meeting place.  For this exhibition the artists reimagine Flaghall as a reading room where texts, talks and performances are brought together under the title Stop Thief! 

As part of Stop Thief!, visitors to the exhibition at these times will experience live interventions in the gallery.

31 August 2014

Performance: Yann Seznec, Currents

Doors open at 6pm; performance begins at 6.30pm

Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.

As the festival draws to a close, we welcome Yann Seznec and the Yann Seznec Fan Club to Trinity Apse for a final performance using the instruments created for his commission Currents. The performance will include a Q&A. 

31 August 2014

Artist Talk and Gallery Tour by Calum Colvin

6pm

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.

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.