Festivals Performance Theatre WILLY HUDSON : BOTTOM Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if ‘bottom’ in the bedroom means ‘bottom’ in life – and whether Beyoncé can help put his love on top. Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, 16:25 1st … Willy Hudson : Bottom
Festivals Performance In this brave and outlandish performance a grown woman attempts to be your baby to discover if innocence really is as sexy as we’re told it is. On at Summerhall in the Demonstration Room from the 1st to the 26th … Katy Dye : Baby Face
Festivals Performance Based on JG Ballard’s cult novel Concrete Island, VOID meshes experimental dance and abstract glitch-video landscapes. Taking in typically Ballardian themes of dystopian worlds, liminal spaces and urban paranoia, Mele Broomes performs risk-taking choreography to the backdrop of an industrial … Mele Broomes : VOID
Visual Arts This a conjectural model of Schwitters’ last day at the MERZBarn in Elterwater. Only … it seems the final flourish of plaster across the corner (all that remains in the Barn after the wall’s removal to the Hatton), was added … Martin Green & David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts SATELLITE Visual Arts Scotland in association with Summerhall are delighted to present the work of eighteen of the hottest emerging talents on the Scottish Art scene. Since its inauguration in 2015 our Graduate Showcase has celebrated the finest emerging artist … Andrew MacKenzie : Satellite, VAS
Visual Arts Andrew MacKenzie introduces the work of the eighteen artists selected for the Satellite exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh, from May to July. The clip features eight of the artists discussing their work and the contribution VAS is making to their early … Visual Arts Scotland : Summerhall ‘Satellite’ Compilation
Visual Arts Over the last thirty years, and guided by wind-born currents and sand born by the run-off from Winter rains, Roland Chaplain has carefully crafted The Beach at Woodhall Loch, adjoining Laurieston Hall. Roland Chaplain : The Beach
Visual Arts Using Tintoretto’s creative presence and the atmosphere engendered by his great masterworks, studying their subtlety and responding to them with drawings and paintings of his own, Pulsford attempts to re-live Tintoretto’s experience of inventing them. War Memorial Library Gallery, Summerhall 11:00–18:00 (NOT … Mark Pulsford : Alla Presenza di Tintoretto/In the Presence of Tintoretto
Visual Arts Married for 51 years, Dawson and Liz Murray share a great passion for plants and have spent the twenty-one years since they moved to Fife designing a beautiful garden which provides a constantly changing source of inspiration for their work. … Liz & Dawson Murray : The Romance of the Garden: Fragments and Memories
Books Lily Freeman interviews childrens’ author Vivian French at the Boswell Book Festival in May 2018. Lily Freeman : Vivian French
Festivals Visual Arts Sarah Stewart is one of 84 artist/makers opening their studios for visitors between 26-28 May. Sarah is based in Wigtown, Scotland’s Book Town and her recent work engages various forms of printing with some images based on typewriters and their … Sarah Stewart : Spring Fling 2018
Rachel Maclean discusses her exhibition Spite Your Face at Talbot Rice Gallery, as well as her broader practice. Commissioned for the Venice Biennale in 2017, Rachel Maclean’s Spite Your Face returns to Scotland at Talbot Rice Gallery for its UK … Rachel Maclean : Artist Talk
Visual Arts Denise Zygadlo lives and works in Scotland. Her work includes drawing, printing, performance and installation. Trained in printed textiles, Denise worked with several design studios, notably Jenny Frean Associates, now First Eleven, before moving from London to Dumfries in 1980. … Denise Zygadlo : Prints and Drawings
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect … Oron Catts : Pigs Wings + Work in Progress
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be … Ting-Tong Chang : P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Synthetica, Summerhall Saturday 31 — Sunday 13 May A selection of works forms a brief retrospective on the incredible career of Marta de Menezes. The concept of identity and a dichotomy between the natural and the artificial are recurrent themes … Marta de Menezes : Meadows Gallery
Media & Unions A short TU/TV film for the National Union of Journalists and Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom recording the union breaking transfer of jobs to Rupert Murdoch’s News International printing plant in Wapping. Reprised in respect for Brenda Dean, leader of Sogat … Wapping Lies : Brenda Dean
Visual Arts David Claerbout is one of the most acclaimed and innovative artists working in the realm of moving-images today. His oeuvre exists at the intersection of photography, film and digital animation and poses questions about the passage of time and how … David Claerbout : Artist’s Talk
Visual Arts Commissioned for the Venice Biennale in 2017, Rachel Maclean’s Spite Your Face returns to Scotland at Talbot Rice Gallery for its UK premiere. Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, ‘Spite Your Face’ (2017) advances a powerful social critique, … Rachel Maclean : Spite Your Face
Visual Arts David Bainbridge : Paintings David Bainbridge was one of the four founder members of the Conceptual art group Art & Language. He left the group in 1972 and in the 1990s he turned to painting to address scenes from his … David Bainbridge : Paintings
Visual Arts David Claerbout is an internationally acclaimed video artist, known for his subtle manipulation of images and their not-so-simple construction. This exhibition presents six major works from the past 10 years. ‘Radio Piece (Hong Kong)’ (2015) and ‘Travel’ (1996 – 2013) … David Claerbout : Six Major Works
Theatre A full performance of Clout Theatre’s ‘Various Lives of Infinite Nullity’ performed as part of Summerhall’s 2013 Fringe programme. A post-suicide support group meet to reflect upon their lives. Ignoring symptoms of their own deaths, three characters guide us through … Clout Theatre : Various Lives of Infinite Nullity
Literature Sixth in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : A.D Miller and Patrick Gale
Books Colin MacIntyre may be more familiar to some as the man behind Mull Historical Society. Under this pseudonym he has become one of the UK’s most respected songwriters and performers, releasing four albums to critical and chart success. Now Colin … Colin Macintyre : The Letters of Ivor Punch
Theatre The work and life of Martha Gellhorn, the great war correspondent who covered practically every trouble-spot on earth for six decades, including the Spanish Civil War, D-Day, Dachau, Viet Nam, Greenham Common, El Salvador and Mandela’s inauguration. Gellhorn’s main message … Jack Klaff : Martha Gellhorn
Visual Arts Gallery of Photography, Dublin Wednesday 15 November 2017 – Monday 22 January 2018 Danish artist Krass Clement’s photographic work emerges from two traditions: Scandinavian melancholy and the ‘flaneur’ tradition from the Parisian school. Clement’s work is concerned with reflecting interior … Tanya Kiang : Krass Clement | The Light Gleams an Instant
Books Festivals Matt Haig spoke in front of a packed Book Festival audience about the importance of reading and writing in maintaining mental health and its role in helping him conquer depression, as part of the Festival’s Staying Well strand. Matt said … Matt Haig : Reasons To Stay Alive
Visual Arts Sat 20 Jan 2018 – Sat 17 Feb 2018 Summerhall Venue: Basement Gallery I An Exploration of Line by Garvald Edinburgh Artists A line joins two points- what happens between these two points is where the creativity occurs. Following on … Morven Macrae : A Stitch and Line
Books Festivals Catriona O’Sullivan interviews Ragnar Jonasson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland Ragnar currently works as a lawyer having previously worked in TV and radio. He has translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic and set up … Ragnar Jonasson : Snowblind
