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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 (1.0 miles)
Sat 25 May
Free / 0131 650 2210
- 10:00 – 17:00
Art, Science and Performance
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.
The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh (0.5 miles)
Fri 23 Aug
£15 (£12) / 0131 473 2000
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 (1.6 miles)
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
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 (1.3 miles)
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
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 (1.0 miles)
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 (2.3 miles)
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
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 (1.0 miles)
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



