We have invited 10 artists from previous festival editions to work with us to mark the dates of what would have been our 2020 festival.
We have invited 10 artists from previous festival editions to work with us to mark the dates of what would have been our 2020 festival.
Online & Around the City
10 Artists Invited to Mark our Dates
30 July – 30 August
We have invited 10 artists from previous festival editions, to work with us to mark the dates of what would have been our 2020 festival.
Around the City
Ruth Ewan, Magic Words (Ian, Margaret, Peggy), 2020
30 July – 30 August
Ewan creates a special poster series devised with magician Ian Saville, calling upon all of us to join together in a ‘mass action for the radical transformation of society’.
Middle Meadow Walk
Tam Joseph, The Hand Made Map Of The World, 2014
30 July – 30 August
Joseph re-presents 'The Hand Made Map Of The World', first presented as a billboard in the 2014 festival.
Poster Site – Clerk Street Cinema
Rae-Yen Song, Song Dynasty ○○, 2018 & songdynasty.life, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Song expands on a project for the 2018 festival, with new work online and in the city, extending an ongoing familial collaboration, Song Dynasty.
Around the City
Peter Liversidge, Flags for Edinburgh, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Liversidge invites organisations and communities across Edinburgh to send a collective greeting to each other and the wider world.
Online
Ruth Ewan, Worker’s Song Storydeck, 2018
30 July – 30 August
Ewan revisits her Sympathetic Magick project, where she invited magicians to consider how they might use their magic to change the world.
Around the City
Ellie Harrison, Tonnes of carbon produced by the personal transportation of a ‘professional artist’, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Harrison presents an up-to-date version of her graph showing the tonnes of carbon produced by the personal transportation of a professional artist.
Online
Calvin Z. Laing, Calvin & Jogging, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Thursday 7pm & Saturday 11am
Laing revisits the neighbourhood of his childhood in the suburbs of Edinburgh to present a new online performance.
Online
Tamara MacArthur, It’s All Over But the Dreaming, 2020
Live Performance: 31 July, 6 – 8pm
Video response: 10 – 30 August
MacArthur’s new online performance investigates our desire for closeness and contemporary methods devised to simulate human contact in a time of social distancing.
Online
Rosalind Nashashibi
30 July – 30 August
Nashashibi’s two-part film explores the importance of storytelling and love in the building and sustaining of community.
Online
Rae-Yen Song, songdynasty.life, 2020
30 July – 30 August
Song presents work that draws on autobiography and fantasy to speak broadly and politically about foreignness and the position of the Other.
Online
Shannon Te Ao, With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, 2017
30 July – 30 August
Te Ao revisits With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, a poetic meditation on themes of love, grief, sickness and healing.
Online
Hanna Tuulikki, SING SIGN: a close duet, 2015
30 July – 30 August
Tuulikki reflects on that innate human desire to communicate and connect, presenting a vocal and gestural suite devised for the historic ‘closes’ of Edinburgh.
Around the City
Black Lives Matter Mural Trail
Throughout August
We are proud to be working with our partners to support 3 new chapters of the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail.
Online
DIY Art – Activity Packs
30 July – 30 August
DIY Art is our free series of activity packs specially designed by artists, inviting you to get creative at home.
Scotsman Steps
Martin Creed: Work No.1059, 2011
All year round
Daily, 5am – 10pm
Work No. 1059 is a major public artwork by Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed for the historic Scotsman Steps.
Jacob’s Ladder, Calton Road Bridge
Graham Fagen: A Drama In Time, 2016
All year round
Graham Fagen is one of the most influential artists working in Scotland today. His work mixes media and crosses continents.
