Visual Arts The Pittenweem Arts Festival takes place every year in August, and showcases a mix of established artists, residents and newcomers, who work in a range of media. Jean B Duncan, the Chair of the festival, talks about some of the … Jean B Duncan : Pittenweem Festival 2014
Visual Arts One half of artistic duo, FAILE, Patrick McNeil introduces the FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014, an exhibition featuring specially programmed video games and pinball machines. First seen at Art Basel Miami 2013, this is the first Scottish exhibition … Patrick McNeil : FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014
Visual Arts Artist Susan Hiller presents new work at this year’s Visual Arts programme at Summerhall. Hiller’s new video combines sound frequencies and visual patterns translated from radio waves emitted by the Big Bang with a series of eye-witness accounts of extra- … Susan Hiller : Re-Sounding
Visual Arts Founding director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, introduces the two hour performative walk, which took place at Summerhall, with artists Tim Knowles and Ania Bas, who have been undertaking both urban and rural walking in the UK and elsewhere. The tour … Claudia Zeiske : Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl
Visual Arts Artist James McLardy introduce’s Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s group show, Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken, curated by writer and curator Quinn Latimer. The starting point of the exhibition was a poem by Latimer, which set the tone for the artists to … James McLardy : Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken
Visual Arts Artist Jessica Harrison presents her new exhibition, Broken, which features a selection of ready-made ceramic sculptures, but with a dark twist. Despite their serene expressions, these female figurines hold their intestines, or a broken arm, have no eyes or have … Jessica Harrison : Broken
Performance Helen Aldrich introduces her solo show ‘Head in the Clouds: The Peregrinations of Marie Marvingt’, which explores the colourful lie of aviator, mountaineer, journalist, amongst many other things, of Marie Marvingt. Alrich plays all the parts in this story about … Helen Aldrich : Head in the Clouds
Performance David Wood and Jon Haynes explore early onset psychoses and schizophrenia in their piece ‘The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland’. The piece deals with a family in crisis over time, exploring the mother and son’s journey. The audience are split in half by … David Wood and Jon Haynes: The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Performance Nicola Bianzola introduces Made in ILVA, a performance piece that explores the ILVA Steelworks scandal in Italy, and the impact this had on the population. The company combines experimental physical theatre, video projections and original music to give a poetic … Nicola Bianzola : Made in ILVA
Visual Arts One of the commissioned artists for Talbot Rice Gallery’s Counterpoint exhibition, Ellie Harrison introduces her installation/event, After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up The Mess? Set up in the gallery’s grand Georgian gallery space, Harrison presents four large confetti cannons … Ellie Harrison : After The Revolution, Who Will Clean Up The Mess?
Visual Arts Artist Mick Peter has completely transformed Jupiter Artland’s Steading Gallery by creating false walls, doorways and lowering the ceiling. Popcorn Plaza explores Peter’s interest in civic space, the complete transformation of a space and how that can impact on the … Mick Peter : Popcorn Plaza
Performance Founding director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, introduces the two hour performative walk, which took place at Summerhall, with artists Tim Knowles and Ania Bas, who have been undertaking both urban and rural walking in the UK and elsewhere. The … Claudia Zeiske : Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl
Visual Arts Artist Calum Colvin introduces his new exhibition, The Magic Box, which is an archaeology of his practice from the last 25 years. The exhibition will feature image transparencies from the early 1980s, new prints created at Edinburgh Printmakers, and an … Calum Colvin : The Magic Box
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 The Little Clarendon Group, a theatre company based in Oxford, comes back to Summerhall to present Now Until The Hour. Jacquie Crago and Richard Rowley, actress and producer of the production, chat to us about new unexpected twists the director, Andrew … The Little Clarendon Group : Now Until The Hour
Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, and the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Tessa Lynch responds to an ancient law that states if you can build a small dwelling on a piece of land and have a fire in the hearth by sundown, … Tessa Lynch : Raising
Visual Arts Thibaut Clamart introduces artist Claude Closky’s exhibition 10, 20, 30 & 40%, which is currently showing at Summerhall. The pieces on display are minimal in form, a series of framed prints of lines, dashes and numbers, and aim to address … Thibaut Clamart : Claude Closky
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Poet Ryan Van Winkle and musician Dan Gorman invite us to go on an unforgettable journey to the most beautiful tulip fields in Holland. ViewMaster is an intimate performance, taking place in a magical set designed by artist Faith Eliott. … Ryan Van Winkle : ViewMaster
Visual Arts Programme Manager Laura Simpson introduces Hospitalfield Arts, a house that is dedicated to fostering creative talent and arts education through open days for the public and artist residencies. The house belonged to artist Patrick Allan Fraser, who left it in … Laura Simpson : Hospitalfield Arts Residencies
Visual Arts Curator Andrew Brown introduces artist Caroline McNairn’s exhibition, Dreaming of Heroic Days, which is a body of work primarily created when she spent time living in Russia and Ukraine. Brown has been a friend of the artist since they met … Andrew Brown : Dreaming of Heroic Days
Visual Arts Mexican artist Antonio O’Connell introduces his installation piece that can be seen on the front of the Summerhall building. Like an explosion of colours and pieces, O’Connell’s work brings an element of spontaneity and disorder to an ordered and constructed … Antonio O’Connell : Virus
Performance Two female performers offset each other scarily; both mother and daughter, dominant and dominated, master and slave. In the world of À Table, the impulse to avoid pain is ignored. The two performers silently attempt to negotiate their relationship in … Aniela Piasecka : À Table
Visual Arts Curator Deborah Jackson introduces the Talbot Rice Gallery’s newest exhibition, Counterpoint, which brings together new commissions from 8 contemporary artists who question the social role and function of art. The works on display include full-size street lamps, confetti cannons and … Deborah Jackson : Counterpoint
Visual Arts Artists Augustin Rebetez and Giona Bierens De Haan introduce us to their own unique world. Heart (Meteorite) brings together strange monotonous beasts, ornate stop-motion videos and rapidly assembled humanoid sculptures, depicting the tragedy and comedy of Rebetez’s bittersweet universe. This is the … Augustin Rebetez and Giona Bierens De Haan : Heart (Meteorite)
Visual Arts Summerhall TV travels to Selkirk in the Scottish Borders to meet Lawrence Robertson, one of the trustees of The Haining. This Palladian Mansion House is a long-term project, which aims to become a centre for art and culture and be … Lawrence Robertson : The Haining
Community Summerhall TV catches up with campaigner Heidi Pearson to talk about the removal of the Jawbone Arch, at the Meadows, where the Jawbones are being prepped for the big move. Nic Boyes is in charge of the conservation effort, and … Heidi Pearson : The Jawbone Arch
Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, a nationwide celebration of Scottish contemporary art from the past 25 years, artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler is exhibiting his 61 minute film The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott. … Anne Lyden : Luke Fowler
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Pete Livingstone and Nina Kareis introduce their company Livingstones Kabinet, who are performing Klip at Summerhall, as part of the Fringe Festival. Klip combines performance, dance and live music, and uses a collage technique to produce a different viewing experience … Livingstones Kabinet : Klip
Visual Arts The Lillie Gallery plays host to a “mini retrospective” of artist Lys Hansen’s work, featuring pieces from the 80s to the present day. Hansen aims to explore the human condition and the complex inter-relationships of people, and uses an expressive … Lys Hansen : Love + War + Paint
Visual Arts Sculptor Louise Gibson introduces her new work as part of Summerhall’s group show, Large Things of Different Shapes and Colours. Currently based in Berlin, Gibson mostly works with polyester resins and found objects and materials. The work will be shown … Louise Gibson : Large Things of Different Shapes and Colours
Visual Arts Cabbages in an Orchard; The formers and forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen explores the connections and common ground between both artists’ work. Fagen was asked to research the work of Mackintosh and create new work in response … Cabbages in an Orchard; The formers and forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen
