Summerhall
Fiona Banner: The Vanity Press
2 August – 27 September 2013
Fiona Banner, film still from Chinook, 2013
British artist Fiona Banner’s presentation at Summerhall premieres new film works and recent publications with a focus on performance.
Three video works will be shown for the first time: Mirror, based on a performance with actress Samantha Morton (a kind of verbal striptease); Jane's which parodies the hubris of sculpture making and Chinook in which a Chinook helicopter performs an absurd yet beautiful aerial ballet. The films will be shown along with hand-modelled neons and other works relating to Banner's fascination with semantics and military flight.
Publishing, in the broadest sense, is at the heart of Banner’s practice. In 1997 she started working under the imprint The Vanity Press, and has since published an extensive archive of books, objects and performances, many questioning the notion of authorship and copyright.
Exhibition in the Meadow Gallery and surrounding galleries.
Mon—Sun, 11am—9pm
September: 11am-6pm
Free admission