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The FAIR Project
Masters of Contemporary Art students from Edinburgh College of Art are the helm of this year's FAIR, which sees the gallery handed over to six groups, each charged with interpreting the concept of 'fair'. The result is a programme of music, comedy, film, performance, exhibition and installation that plays out over three…
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Fri 24 May
Free / 0131 650 2210
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 0131 650 2210
- 10:00 – 17:00
Artists Film International
Three contemporary film pieces exploring the different approaches to performance and bodily presence. Featuring work from the artists Neha Choksi, Kaia Hugin and Alix Pearlstein.
Whitechapel Gallery, London E1
Fri 24 May
Free / 020 7522 7888
- 11:00 – 18:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 020 7522 7888
- 11:00 – 18:00
Sun 26 May
Free / 020 7522 7888
- 11:00 – 18:00
BMW Tate Live 2013
A series of innovative contemporary live performances and events including live web broadcasts and in-gallery performances, created by a variety of artists in a variety of styles and media.
Tate Modern, London SE1
Fri 24 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 10:00 – 22:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 10:00 – 22:00
Mon 27 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 10:00 – 18:00
a book is a performance
Group exhibition showcasing the performative aspect of artists' books, with work by Christian Boltanski, Nina Chua, Thomas A Clark, Marcus Coates, Cullinan Richards, Helen Douglas, Alec Finlay, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Hamilton, Sharon Kivland, Li Yuan-chia, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Simon Morris, Yoko Ono, Hans…
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee
Fri 24 May
Centrespace
Free / 01382 345330
- 12:00 – 16:00
Sat 25 May
Centrespace
Free / 01382 345330
- 12:00 – 16:00
Sun 26 May
Centrespace
Free / 01382 345330
- 12:00 – 16:00
The Bride And The Bachelors: Duchamp With Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg And Johns
Around 90 works highlighting the influence of Marcel Duchamp on American artists, composers and choreographers, including a mise-en-scene performance installation devised by Philippe Parreno.
Barbican Centre, London EC2Y
Fri 24 May
Art Gallery
£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891
- 11:00 – 20:00
Sat 25 May
Art Gallery
£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891
- 11:00 – 20:00
Sun 26 May
Art Gallery
£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891
- 11:00 – 20:00
Cultural Hijack: CONTRAvention
Conference about the relationship between art and activism.
RIBA, London W1B
Sat 25 May
£40 (£25; low income/unwaged £15) / 020 7580 5533
David Sherry: Humanist Cumulative
New drawings, sculptures and images from the artist whose work investigates codes of everyday behaviour in often very entertaining ways.
Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
Sat 25 May
Free / 0796 806 6708
- 12:00 – 16:00
Tue 28 May
Free / 0796 806 6708
- 10:00 – 14:00
Wed 29 May
Free / 0796 806 6708
- 10:00 – 14:00
GARAGE
GARAGE presents new works and collaborations by artists created during a series of micro-residencies in this unique project space which comprises three garages and a garden. The artists exhibiting include Ailie Rutherford, Ary D Cahyono, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Bob Moyler, Christine Hilditch, David MacDiarmid, Emma…
GARAGE, Edinburgh
Sat 3 Aug
Free / 07917 668044
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Sun 4 Aug
Free / 07917 668044
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Sat 10 Aug
Free / 07917 668044
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Heavy Plant Crossing
A participatory walking performance by artist Julia Barton, who leads a mechanical creation, made from recycled objects, on a plant-finding expedition.
National Trust: Wallington House And Grounds, Morpeth
Fri 21 Jun
Free, plus admission £10.30, child £5.15, family £25.75 / 01670 773600
- 11:00 – 15:00
Sat 22 Jun
Free, plus admission £10.30, child £5.15, family £25.75 / 01670 773600
- 11:00 – 15:00
Hijack: Ets-beest
This one’s for 2-4year olds to Hijack! Ets-beest is a performance for and with an early-year’s audience. It takes place around and across a large sheet of paper and literally translates as ‘etching beast’. The show is a coming together of dance, drawing and music where the boundaries between the young audience and…
Komedia, Brighton
Fri 31 May
Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane
In the year he represents the UK at the Venice Biennale, Jeremy Deller and his long-standing collaborator, Alan Kane will exhibit at Jupiter Artland. Since their early collaborative show at the infamous London nightclub Stringfellow’s in 1995 to ‘Folk Archive’ (2007), their acclaimed and unique celebration of British…
Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston
Sat 3 Aug
£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sun 4 Aug
£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Mon 5 Aug
£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Jonathan Baldock: A Strange Cross Between A Butcher's Shop And A Nightclub
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.
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Sun 26 May
Free / 01954 718881
- 12:00 – 17:00
Mon 27 May
Free / 01954 718881
- 12:00 – 17:00
Tue 28 May
Free / 01954 718881
- 12:00 – 17:00
Lovely Sky (Participatory Imagineering)
For the duration of the festival, artist Lucy Pawlak will adopt the role of Producer for a narrative feature film. The resulting work will be designed and directed in collaboration with a writing team of imagineers and advisors made up of visitors to the gallery and invited experts. Through constant brainstorming, hot…
Rhubaba Gallery & Studio, Edinburgh
Thu 1 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 18:00
Fri 2 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 18:00
Sat 3 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 12:00 – 18:00
Low Profile: Against All Odds
Art pranksters Low Profile, aka Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Jones, deck the Exeter Phoenix in positivity in an effort to buck up the artgoer and, possibly, themselves.
Exeter Phoenix
Fri 24 May
Phoenix Gallery
Free / 01392 667080
- 10:00 – 17:30
Sat 25 May
Phoenix Gallery
Free / 01392 667080
- 10:00 – 17:30
Mon 27 May
Phoenix Gallery
Free / 01392 667080
- 10:00 – 17:30
Manchester School of Art Degree Show
Work by final year students at the Manchester School of Art.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sat 15 Jun
Free / 0161 247 2000
- 10:00 – 16:00
Sun 16 Jun
Free / 0161 247 2000
- 10:00 – 16:00
Mon 17 Jun
Free / 0161 247 2000
- 10:00 – 18:00
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Werk Is Free / Be Free! May Day
Paintings, films, ceramics and music exploring the issue of workers' rights. Opening with a performance in which the artist is joined by music producer SOPHIE.
Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Fri 24 May
Free / 01603 766400
- 12:00 – 18:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 01603 766400
- 12:00 – 18:00
Sun 26 May
Free / 01603 766400
- 12:00 – 18:00
Oil City
A site-specific, immersive performance by Platform, exploring the dark underbelly of London's oil economy.
Toynbee Studios, London E1
Mon 10 Jun
£5 / 020 7650 2350
- 09:00
Tue 11 Jun
£5 / 020 7650 2350
- 09:00
Wed 12 Jun
£5 / 020 7650 2350
- 09:00
MAC (Midlands Arts Centre), Birmingham
Sat 29 Jun
Free / 0121 446 3232
- 11:00 – 18:00
Peter Liversidge: doppelgänger
Peter Liversidge's exhibition for the festival unpicks the powerful and strange story of Ein Handschuh, a suite of etchings from 1881 by the Austrian Symbolist Max Klinger. Klinger's ten prints tell the story of a lost glove, dropped by a beautiful, rollerskating woman, and picked up by the artist, in whose imagination…
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Thu 1 Aug
Free / 0131 556 4441
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 18:00
Fri 2 Aug
Free / 0131 556 4441
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 18:00
Sat 3 Aug
Free / 0131 556 4441
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 18:00
PRODUCT
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop will present new works from three different strands of its residency and curatorial programmes during the festival. A solo show by Kate Owens will present an ambitious new installation and live public performance, the basis of which is a script adapted from a children’s book first published…
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Sat 3 Aug
Free / 0131 551 4490
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 11:00 – 17:00
Mon 5 Aug
Free / 0131 551 4490
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 11:00 – 17:00
Tue 6 Aug
Free / 0131 551 4490
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 11:00 – 17:00
Shaun Gladwell: Cycles of Radical Will
Adapting its title from Susan Sontag's fiery essay collection Styles of Radical Will, this latest exhibition by the Australian artist is his largest in the UK to date. In Mini Ramp Intersection, a skate ramp installed on the roof of the building encourages users either to joust with each other or to avoid colliding.
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Fri 24 May
Free / 01424 229111
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 01424 229111
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sun 26 May
Free / 01424 229111
- 10:00 – 17:00
Summer 2013
Tate St Ives presents its summer season of modern British art.
Tate St Ives
Fri 24 May
£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sat 25 May
£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sun 26 May
£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226
- 10:00 – 17:00
Takesada Matsutani: A Matrix
Abstract paintings and mixed-media works by the Osaka-born, Paris-based artist and second-generation member of the influential, post-war, Japanese Gutai Art Association. Including a performance of Stream, London, Hauser & Wirth.
Hauser & Wirth, London W1S
Fri 24 May
Free / 020 7287 2300
- 10:00 – 18:00
Sat 25 May
Free / 020 7287 2300
- 10:00 – 18:00
Tue 28 May
Free / 020 7287 2300
- 10:00 – 18:00
Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds
No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Nam June Paik; he prophesied changes that would shape the contemporary world, exemplified in his pioneering ideas, 'Participation TV', 'Random Access Information' and 'Video Commune'. 'Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds' celebrates the…
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Fri 9 Aug
Free / 0131 650 2210
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sat 10 Aug
Free / 0131 650 2210
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sun 11 Aug
Free / 0131 650 2210
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Where Do We Draw the Line?
Movement and drama workshop exploring freedom of expression and censorship.
The Victoria, London E8
Mon 27 May
£3 / 020 8123 6043
- 11:00 – 16:00
