1 August 2015
Sarah Hardie: songs for someone who isn’t there
Two showings: 9-9.40pm and 10-10.40pm
Free Book Tickets.
Photograph Copyright Sarah Hardie
songs for someone who isn’t there is an evening of ‘lullabies’, performances of song and poetry, through the streets of Edinburgh. It features established and emerging artists: Ed Atkins, David Austen, Marco Godoy, Sarah Hardie and poet Crispin Best.
John Muse wrote that ‘public spaces are more than ever becoming sites for communal isolation’. In response, songs for someone who isn’t there explores the silence of the human voice in public spaces: the silence people walking through the city experience of themselves and others every day, and the silence many return to at night. These city- wide ‘lullabies’ represent not the idealised togetherness of typical lullabies, but rather the pained isolation of our contemporary age of broken encounters, the lover’s hope, materialised in song, against the stony silence of public space today.
Supported by
The Hope Scott Trust and Nicoletta Fiorucci
With additional support from
Charles Asprey
Bosse & Baum
The Corner of Chambers Street and West College Street
Old College
University of Edinburgh
South Bridge, EH8 9YL
1 August 2015
Garage Presents : Her Wilderness, a film by Frank Mosley
1pm, 2.30pm & 4pm
65 min/2014/USA
Free
Image still from Her Wilderness, USA, 2014
Her Wilderness weaves an eliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
For more details and suprises check out Garage's website.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
Besant will introduce his concept for the exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers and the public art facade integration for the Castle Mill Works building in Fountainbridge, along with four other related projects that draw from public collaboration in other cities. He will show imagery form his artist's residency at the MMA Municipal Museum of Art in Gyor, Hungary 2008/ The 100 Metro subway Train Station installation for Contact 2012 in downtown Toronto Canada, his project The End of Language installed in the new Modem Museum of Modern Art for Debrecen Hungary 2013, plus the 200 site public art commission I Am The River, which posed members of the local area into the context of The Bow River which runs through the centre of Canada's most energetic city, Calagry Alberta.
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
1 August 2015
Garage Presents: City Vegetables
3pm
Free
The red and blue boxes are singing in the street outside of your house. Sweeping concrete dust, skateboarding woods, a rake through the soil of plastic flowers. SOme of the above, seagulls always above... talking about the weather on their mobile phones.
A new solo project by cartooonist Malcy Duff. Using unrecyclable packaging, recordings and voice, sounds are created from reaing drawn scores.
For more details and suprises check out Garage's website.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
1 August 2015
Spotlight Tours of Scottish Art: People, Places, Ideas
11am & 3pm
Free with £2 suggested donation.
Samuel John Peploe, Still Life with Melon and Grapes
A guided tour of The City Art Centre's Scottish Art collection, focusing on people, places and ideas.
Please meet at reception. No need to book. Free with £2 suggested donation.
1 August 2015
Modern Art and Scotland's Masterpieces
10-3pm
£4 (bring a pack lunch), booking essential, book here or by phone -0131 228 1155
Make your own modern work of art in the form of a collage, inspired by our vast callection of paintings by Scottish artists.
Cuento Ballena, 2008
Mexican artist Ariel Guzik discusses his lifelong project to communicate with dolphins and whales with Nicola Triscott, Director of Arts Catalyst, and marine biologist, Mark Simmonds OBE.
1 August 2015
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd : The King Must Die
2pm
Free, but booking essential, please book here.
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Home Made Tasers, Studio 231, New Museum, New York, 2011—2012 Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ
Known for her deliberately shambolic and lo-fi performances, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s new work The King Must Die explores the ancient Greek cult of the Mother Goddess, immersing us in an intense and supremely pagan celebration of feminity and female power.
The performance will require some audience participation as you get drawn into Marvin's strange and wonderful world.
The performance has limited places, so make sure to book your tickets!
Cuento Ballena, 2008
A unique opportunity to hear Mexican artist Ariel Guzik perform live in a specially devised set combining electronic music with field recordings of whales and dolphins.
1 – 30 August 2015
Art Late has finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Film Screenings have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Festival Detours have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Artist Talks have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Explorers has finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Special Events have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Performances have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
1 – 30 August 2015
Guided have finished for this festival, we look forward to seeing you next year.
30 July – 30 August 2015
Explorers
Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special trail through the art festival, with activities focussed on key exhibitions and commissions from the festival programme. Download an activity pack here.
Participating galleries and exhibitions for 2015 include:
Dovecot Gallery: Kwang Young Chun, Aggregations
Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm
Ingleby Gallery: Charles Avery, The People and Things of Onomatopoeia
Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm. Sun, 12pm-5pm (August only)
Old Royal High School: Kemang Wa Lehulere, Join the dots
Mon—Sun, 10am—6pm
Activity pack available to download soon.
Summer School
Take part in our free to attend Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers Summer School that involves a guided visit to the artwork and a practical art activity class.
Training for facilitators, teachers & support workers
Work with artists in Edinburgh Art Festival venues to explore how to engage your groups with the free galleries, commissions and events on offer.
Thu 30 July
Upper Primary P5–P7:
Tue 11 & Wed 12 August
Lower Primary P1–P4:
Thu 13 & Fri 14 August
All workshops are free to attend but booking is essential. For information and booking, please contact Kate MacKay: [email protected]
30 July – 30 August 2015
Free Daily Guided Tours
Sat-Thu, 2pm
Free
During the festival, each afternoon at 2pm there are free guided tours of venues, leaving from the festival Kiosk on Blair Street (no booking required).
With different routes to choose from , these are a great way to find your way through the city and explore the festival.