After 12pm, Visual art, Performance art

Performances by various artists responding to places around the world sharing the name of Bristol.

Leonardo is celebrated as both an inspired artist and anatomist. This special event considers how contemporary artists, performers and scientists are informed by each other’s work in their exploration of the human body. Part of the Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme in collaboration with Wellcome Trust.

Mardy Arts return for our annual artistic residency mingling among the theatrics and creative lovelies that inhabit Greenside of an August. Potter and share a ponder with us at the best kept secret of the festival. Our 2013 programme of events brings you charming performance folk: Bunt Fest: a festival of bunting…

• Directed by: Hester Chillingworth

Get In The Back Of The Van Theatre Company's contemporary, devised performance piece exploring what happens when voices become stifled. Lucy McCormick, Jennifer Pick, and Craig Hamblyn are directed by Hester Chillingworth.

• Written by: Michael 'Mikey J' Asante

The Japanese manga artist Akio Tanaka joins forces with choreographer Kenrick 'H20' Sandy and composer 'Mikey J', for this dynamic dance-narrative piece inspired by manga and featuring five former troublemakers who, under the guidance of the guardian of Prana, must lead a battle of good against evil.

By Night is a series of bespoke evening events at various venues of National Gallery Scotland, each tailored towards individual exhibitions. All By Night events are free but ticketed. Booking is essential.

Richard Strange's weird and wonderful performance art cabaret returns.

Works in various media and performances by students from the Christopher Whitehead Language College.

Performance artist Bryony Kimmings presents a solo show in which she sets out to create, with the help of her nine-year-old niece Taylor, a positive role model for young people.

Complex new work from Dan Graham.

Deirdre Robertson invites you to join her in the mysterious underground location of Gilmerton Cove. Booking is essential.

A sculptural installation including performances exploring themes of formlessness, dissolving worldviews, the idiosyncrasies of language and the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

Eric Isaacson delves into the archives of Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax and comes back with a filmic, aural storytelling presentation illustrating underground music movements from 1890 until the present day. Cry Parrot and Monorail present.

A sculptural installation of felt, knitted and ceramic sculptures, corn dolly masks and wall prints, exploring themes of ritual and the carnivalesque, culminating in a performance using the objects and costumes from the exhibition.

Man Ray once said that he had never intended to record his dreams; instead he was determined to realise them. Robin Gillanders looks at the influence of the challenge that Ray and other surrealists issued to realism, which is still ongoing at the present day.

Using light, sound, bubbles and foam, Mette Ingvartsen creates new choreography.

First year extended diploma students present Eduardo De Filippo's portrait of life on the black market in the Second World War for their end of year show.

A site-specific, immersive performance by Platform, exploring the dark underbelly of London's oil economy.

• Written by: Tom Wainwright

An intimate performance piece about a lonely man, longing to have a life he has never lived, who builds models which become vessels for his dreams and melancholy. Video projection and paper craft is incorporated into this work co-created by artists Davy and Kristin McGuire.

Poetry and spoken word event, embracing all things unusual, abstract and arty.

A performance exploring the rise and fall of modernism and punk, focusing on the construction of the World's End Estate in 1974.

Stravinsky's ballet and orchestral work is given a radical makeover by Teodor Currentzis, his orchestra and director Romeo Castellucci, with a stunning score and falling bone powder taking centre stage.