Summerhall
Carolee Schneemann: Remains to be Seen
2 August – 27 September 2012
Carolee Schneemann is a pioneer in many artistic disciplines. Having consistently challenged concepts of sexuality and gender identity in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation art, video art and, most importantly, performance with key works such as Meat Joy (1964) and Interior Scroll (1975), Schneemann broke new grounds within the Happening and performance fields subverting taboos facing women artists in the 60s and 70s.
Schneemann will install three major video installations at Summerhall during this year's Festival - 'Precarious' (2009), 'Devour' (2003) and 'Infinity Kisses - The Movie' (2008) as well as displaying a never before exhibited photographic series where she performed ice skating naked in London while holding her cat.
During the first week of the exhibition the artist will also create a major new work in situ on one of the walls of the Summerhall galleries and will give an artist's talk.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
David Michalek: Figure Studies
2 August – 27 September 2012
In a newly commissioned work, David Michalek honours the cinematic and photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge who broke new ground by recording movement too fast for the human eye to register. In recreating many of Muybridge’s original experiments using the latest technical facilities, Michalek creates both an homage to and an extension of Muybridge's original artistic intent.
Michalek's hugely popular film Slow Dancing is also on show. In this three-screen film, a variety of dance forms are shown in incredibly detailed high resolution and slowed down so greatly that the viewer can feel every nuance of movement and style. Exhibition in the Library Upper Gallery.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Art & Language
2 August – 27 September 2012
Art & Language was the foremost conceptual art grouping of the 1960s and 1970s whose work and publications remain influential to this day. This exhibition will display two large works from 1973 alongside items relating to the group's famous Index installations and a significant display of bookworks and ephemera from this heroic period of linguistic conceptualism. Exhibition in the Courtyard Gallery and Bone Room.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Robert Kuśmirowski: Pain Thing
2 August – 27 September 2012
Pain Thing is a powerful yet playful installation relating directly to the existing fabric of the former veterinary hospital at Summerhall, in which an unsuccessful experiment starts to live its own life.
Robert Kuśmirowski is a performer and an author of installations, objects, photographs and drawings. Born in 1973 in Łódź (Poland), he now lives and works in Lublin. Kuśmirowski specialises in transformed spaces and intensely realised transformations of reality in general and of history in particular.
Installation in the Upper Bar area.
For more information, please visit www.culture.pl/edinburgh. This exhibition is supported by The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Static State
2 August – 27 September 2012
Humour is focused upon a gritty social reality in this curated group show displaying the talents of nine of Edinburgh's most gifted emerging artists. The work of Alex Allan, Matt Barnes, Liam Crichton, Connor Dupre, Kevin Harman, Joel Kaplan, Mark Purves, Liam Richardson and Kenny Watson is satirical, ironic and playful. Exhibition in Library Basement Gallery.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11—9pm (during the Festival)
Summerhall
Phenotype Genotype (PhG)
2 August – 27 September 2012
Displayed within the original laboratory at Summerhall, amidst artifacts from the building’s history as a school of veterinary science, Phenotype Genotype (PhG) will show over 400 works by a diverse range of artists considered as members of the international avant-garde. Curated from Heart Fine Art’s collection, these works will illustrate the historical context and motivations of this movement from 1900 to the present day. Exhibition in the Laboratory Gallery.
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
7 x 7th Street
2 August – 27 September 2012
The Belgian neo-pop artist Jean Pierre Muller – collaborating with musicians Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, Nile Rodgers, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Mulatu Astatke and Kassin - has created a stunning visual and audio mix that combines layers of information collaged with new audio compositions. The exhibition will be displayed out of doors in the street next to the stables at Summerhall, in a series of seven wooden huts.
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Venus With Severed Leg
2 August – 2 September 2012
William English’s photographs of the early days of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s 'Sex' shop. Exhibition in the Corner Gallery.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon–Sun, 11am–9pm (during the festival)
Summerhall
OWWO
2 August – 27 September 2012
Only works by women artists will be on display and, in a radical move, only women will be admitted to the exhibition. Exhibition in the Church Gallery, Hope Park Terrace.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Summerhall
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fewer Laws, More Examples
2 August – 27 September 2012
An investigation of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s fascination with the French Revolution through his prints and object multiples. In Demarco Foundation, Gallery A.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Wolf Vostell
2 August – 27 September 2012
The German artist Wolf Vostell was a key figure in the international avant-garde of the late 20th century. Vostell first achieved notoriety through the decollage movement which (illegally) tore commercial billboard posters to expose parts of previously pasted posters beneath, creating in the process new abstract and pop works considered by many to be the origins of street art.
Vostell went on to change his practise significantly, recategorising it as 'Dé-coll/age' to stress the violence inherent in his later works which included staged car crashes, train wrecks and industrial sized found objects which he entombed in concrete.
Taken from the Heart Fine Art collection at Summerhall, this exhibition considers the entire career of the artist with a particular emphasis on his anti-war ethos and opposition to the Vietnam War and to perceived US imperialism in the 70s. Exhibition in the Dean’s Office Gallery.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon–Sun, 11am–9pm (during the festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Robin Gillanders: The Philosopher's Garden Redux
2 August – 27 September 2012
Ten photographs taken in the Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Ermenonville, north of Paris, where Rousseau spent the last years of his life. Each photograph represents one chapter of Les Reveries du Promeneneur Solitaire (1782), Rousseau’s last book in which he contemplates his life and philosophical concerns. Exhibition in the Meadows Gallery.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission
Summerhall
Ally Wallace: In Indigo Set
2 August – 27 September 2012
A site specific installation by this Glasgow based artist. Utilising re-cycled materials and painted papers, Summerhall's classical interiors and veterinary history have inspired Wallace's considered architectural intervention. Exhibition in the Project Room.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission