Installation – Summerhall August Festival 2016

Summerhall TV: Basement Cinema

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:08:31 +0000

Daily screenings from 11:00 am in the BASEMENT CINEMA showcasing Summerhall TV events filmed between 2012 and 2016.

Free & Unticketed

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Emballage

Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:47 +0000

Emballage refers to Tadeusz Kantor’s concept of wrapping, a utilitarian action taken from the most mundane reality of everyday life. This outcome of an imaginative reworking of the Richard Demarco Archive is supported by Leeds Beckett University’s PhD research programme. The piece is informed by the work of Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, Rose Finn-Kelcey and Bobby Baker, while exploring Shakespeare’s Macbeth along with the autobiographical, archival narratives of the performers and the audience participants. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the performance-installation, to navigate the spaces as they wish and to share memories from their own archives.

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The Dwelling Place

Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:37 +0000

Be transported into an abandoned cottage on the Outer Hebrides. Brothers Jamie and Lewis Wardrop invite you to experience their swirling surround multimedia performance, teasing out the jarring sense of absence and the loss of a profound island culture found in a humble island home. Striking live visuals, electronic sound and the words of the great highland poets in an immersive, limited capacity performance installation.

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(I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow

Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:27 +0000

With live accompaniment from Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, FK Alexander sings along to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang Over The Rainbow, four months before her death. Stand hand in hand with FK, and witness others do the same. This performance is an intimate interactive live experience of undivided attention and love, for an audience of 20 at a time.

Winner of the Autopsy Award

//ACCESSIBILITY INFO: Summerhall is wheelchair accessible via the side entrance on Summerhall Square. The main building has ramp access and then you can either get a lift downstairs to the Basement (button B), and alternatively there is a staircase of 20 steps to get down. The show contains small moments of strobe and noise music. It’s not quiet, but it is loving. Earplugs available on requestMassive love//

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One Hundred Homes

Mon, 09 May 2016 03:05:21 +0000

Yinka Kuitenbrouwer visited more than a hundred people. She talked with them about the idea of home. With the help of snapshots, quotes and biscuits, Yinka created a new story. One Hundred Homes is an ongoing performance; each time that Yinka performs the play, she also visits people from the area, adding their stories to her archives. During her stay at the Fringe, Yinka will continue to develop the piece with Edinburgh locals, artists, and visitors. Join Yinka in her new Edinburgh home, a small wooden cabin specially built in Summerhall’s Courtyard, to experience an intimate performance.

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