We have invited 10 artists from previous festival editions to work with us to mark the dates of what would have been our 2020 festival.
Online & Around the City
10 Artists Invited to Mark our Dates
30 July – 30 August
We have invited 10 artists from previous festival editions, to work with us to mark the dates of what would have been our 2020 festival.
Online
Ruth Ewan, Worker’s Song Storydeck, 2018
30 July – 30 August
Ewan revisits her Sympathetic Magick project, where she invited magicians to consider how they might use their magic to change the world.
Online
Calvin Z. Laing, Calvin & Jogging, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Thursday 7pm & Saturday 11am
Laing revisits the neighbourhood of his childhood in the suburbs of Edinburgh to present a new online performance.
Online
Tamara MacArthur, It’s All Over But the Dreaming, 2020
Live Performance: 31 July, 6 – 8pm
Video response: 10 – 30 August
MacArthur’s new online performance investigates our desire for closeness and contemporary methods devised to simulate human contact in a time of social distancing.
Online
Rosalind Nashashibi
30 July – 30 August
Nashashibi’s two-part film explores the importance of storytelling and love in the building and sustaining of community.
Online
Rae-Yen Song, songdynasty.life, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Song presents work that draws on autobiography and fantasy to speak broadly and politically about foreignness and the position of the Other.
Online
Shannon Te Ao, With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, 2017
30 July – 30 August
Te Ao revisits With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, a poetic meditation on themes of love, grief, sickness and healing.
Online
Hanna Tuulikki, SING SIGN: a close duet, 2015
30 July – 30 August
Tuulikki reflects on that innate human desire to communicate and connect, presenting a vocal and gestural suite devised for the historic ‘closes’ of Edinburgh.
Online
DIY Art – Activity Packs
30 July – 30 August
DIY Art is our free series of activity packs specially designed by artists, inviting you to get creative at home.
