FESTIVAL PROGRAMME FRINGE26 VENUE FILM THEATRE MUSIC VISUAL ARTS DANCE LITERATURE INSTALLATIONS FASHION EDUCATION WELCOME TO SUMMERHALL … 500 ROOMS, 2 COURTYARDS, For Festival 2012 we are presenting a bustling yet carefully-curated programme 1 ‘STREET’. SPRAWLING LIKE of international performing and visual arts, A HILLTOP VILLAGE, IN PLACES film and education work – as well as a new GRAND, IN PLACES EVEN café and a new bar. CREEPY: SUMMERHALL IS A In the detail and the little extras, we BIG BUILDING TO FILL. are committed to providing a rich and enjoyable festival experience, for all ages BUT WE’VE PRETTY MUCH and from morning until, well, morning. FILLED IT. And this is just the start. Rupert Thomson Programme Director, June 2012 CONTENTS SUMMERHALL 2 - 3 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS 4 Programme Themes 5 The Venue 6 Richard Demarco 7 - 22 VISUAL ARTS 21 - 22 Edinburgh International Fashion Festival P40 - Pain of Desire P7-22 Visual Arts 23 - 62 LIVE ARTS 24 Children 25 - 27 Education/Talks 28 - 31 Events/Late Night 32 - 35 Film 36 - 37 Literature/Spoken Word 38 - 41 Music 42 - 61 Theatre 62 OFF SITE THEATRE 64 Index of all events (alphabetical) P23-62 Live Arts P41 - Archie Shepp Fringe Venue 26 Box Office: 0845 874 3001 General Enquiries: 0845 874 3000 Email: [email protected] P44 -Flâneurs 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL www.summerhall.co.uk 1 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS ARCHIE SHEPP IN CONCERT - MUSIC Summerhall is thrilled to be able to launch its 2012 Festival programme with a unique performance by a very special artist. Archie Shepp – jazz saxophonist, writer, radical – will be performing a rare intimate set in the Dissection Room, accompanied by the exciting talent of Tom McClung on piano. 7X7TH STREET - ART Seven music giants, Robert Wyatt, Nile Rodgers, Terry Riley, Kassin, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan and Mulatu Astatke, working with Belgian artist Jean Pierre Muller created new compositions for Muller's seven interactive sound sculptures that together form the unique 7x7 installation of 7x7th Street in Summerhall. REMAINS TO BE SEEN - ART ART & LANGUAGE EXHIBITION - ART Schneemann is a pioneering performance artist who Art & Language - the foremost conceptual art has created a body of work that continues to set collective of the 1960s and 70s - replaced the "art the standard for intellectual integrity. This installation object" with extremely rigorous intellectual debate mixes recent video works with older, previously about language in art from which they produced a unseen prints. On 4th August Schneemann will vast collection of philosophical papers on aesthetics. deliver a performative lecture at Summerhall and, This exhibition, from the collection of A&L artist, David during her visit, create a new wall collage. Rushton, includes the groundbreaking "Index" works of 1972-74 and other rarely seen important works. DR.QUIMPUGH’S COMPENDIUM OF PECULIAR AFFLICTIONS - MUSIC A brilliantly witty new chamber opera by Martin Ward (Royal Opera) and Phil Porter (RSC) performed by a first-class cast. The celebrated doctor revisits the bizarre cases on which his mighty reputation was built… 2 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS DOUBLE BILLS - FILM Revitalising the tradition of the double bill, Summerhall presents : five alternative film couplings, each inspired by the themes running through this year’s Summerhall festival programme. SONGS OF LEAR - THEATRE Songs of Lear is a non-linear dramatic event that BARBARA HAMMER shows the world of subtle energies and rhythms - EDUCATION that govern Shakespeare’s tragedy. Here the music Speaking for the first time becomes character, relationships and experience. in Edinburgh and fresh from It is a constantly evolving creative research project retrospectives at the Tate from an award-winning ensemble company. and MoMA, the internationally acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema and icon of avant garde film talks about recuperating missing aspects of queer histories and putting them back into urban and rural spaces. FESTIVAL CLUB - EVENTS/LATE NIGHT A late night cabaret in PUPPET. BOOK OF SPLENDOUR - THEATRE Summerhall’s unique Dissection Room, featuring 2011 Herald Angel and Total Theatre Award a mix of international music, winners, neTTheatre return with a project inspired by performance and spoken Kantor’s Cricot 2 Theatre. Here in zones of the dead word talent (and anything in unexpected neighbourhoods of childhood, Puppet else that takes our fancy). Book Of Splendour shows a vibrant world of effigies, Including special festival golems and mannequins viewed through cabalism. editions of Edinburgh’s Welcome to the Clinic of Dreams! celebrated Balkanarama! and London’s epic Nabokov Arts Club. DETENTION - THEATRE Detention, a non-verbal comedy from Hong Kong combining acrobatics, clowning and percussion, is about 3 naughty high school boys FIGURE STUDIES & SLOW DANCING - ART chasing around a beautiful The World Premiere of Figure Studies by David female classmate in a detention Michalek. A three-screen tribute to the first class. Director Tang Shu-wing, photographer of movement, Eadweard Muybridge, who presented Titus using comparable human body actions. Michalek Andronicus in London’s ‘Globe works with choreographers, dancers, actors and to Globe’ Festival in May, will others to record human movement in extreme high direct a brilliant cast helmed resolution video whereby 5 seconds of action takes by the Champion of World 7 minutes to view. Women Model Physique. www.summerhall.co.uk 3 PROGRAMME THEMES THERE ARE FIVE THEMES THIS YEAR. AND, IN KEEPING WITH THE VET SCHOOL HISTORY, WE NAMED THE THEMES FROM OLD VET TEXTBOOKS THAT WE FOUND LEFT AROUND THE ‘DICK VET’ WE NOW CALL HOME. WE WANT YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN CONNECTIONS AND COME TO YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS, SO OUR EXPLANATIONS HAVE BEEN KEPT AS GENERAL AS POSSIBLE. LOOK OUT FOR THE ICONS THROUGHOUT THIS BROCHURE TO NAVIGATE EACH STRAND. ‘THE PRESENCE OF AN EXOTIC AGENT’ ‘TURF WARS WERE ABANDONED’ Colourful, carnival-like, energetic, Art and conflict, and a will to perhaps a little dark. A virus party. ‘heal the wounds’ of history, in line with the original mandate of the ‘IDENTITY, PURITY AND POTENCY’ Edinburgh Festival after the 2nd A broad survey of issues relating World War. to women, offering historical and personal contexts while introducing ‘THE CENTRAL FRAGMENT’ ideas and developing languages. You and me, piecing things together in 2012. It’s the end of ‘FOUR ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE’ the world as we know it, again! Dreamy and meditative: projects with a self-referencing quality (a film about film, say) or that break down or stratify our assumptions and perceptions of forms. 4 SUMMERHALL THE VENUE A DAY AT SUMMERHALL IS A DAY LIKE NO OTHER. SUMMERHALL IS A VENUE FILLED WITH SURPRISES AND, PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY IN RAINY EDINBURGH, YOU CAN ENJOY THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE WITHOUT GETTING SOAKED. Start the day with a tea or coffee and a snack in the SUMMERHALLCAFE, then explore the meandering corridors and take in the historic interiors, and maybe catch a show... or several. We have over 60 events daily. The COURTYARD, the heart of all activity, leads to our many performance spaces, exhibition sites and to THE ROYAL DICK bar. Once the Small Animal Hospital of the Dick Vet School, THE ROYAL DICK is now transformed into a unique bar/restaurant. The décor is a mix of art and antiques from all over the world, combined with authentic Dick Vet School ephemera such as adjustable animal operation tables. With really good food, great drinks including our own Summerhall Beer and freshly made coffee all day. A BAR RESTAURANT, and a CAFE, many theatres and galleries around three courtyards and... our own TV STATION. Summerhall TV's online channel has gone live for the festival. It is for previews, news and reviews on the visual arts, literary events, theatre performances, music and film including events elsewhere in the festival. So stay tuned and follow Facebook.com/SummerhallTV and for more go to www.Summerhall.tv www.summerhall.co.uk 5 THE DEMARCO EUROPEAN ART FOUNDATION RICHARD DEMARCO FROM AUGUST 2012, THE DEMARCO ARCHIVE WILL BE AT SUMMERHALL. IT IS A LIVING ARCHIVE OF ART AND THE RECORDS OF PRODUCTIONS AND IDEAS OF THOUSANDS IN ALL CULTURAL FIELDS INCLUDING OVER THREE THOUSANDS PLAYS, EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER EVENTS FROM MORE THAN SIXTY COUNTRIES, AND A VAST PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION. In this year's festival the Demarco Archive exhibition installation of 'Scotland in Poland, Poland in links to Southampton Solent, Arts University College Scotland'. At Festival of Politics, Holyrood, Aug.25, Bournemouth, Kingston, Stirling, St. Andrews, Prof. Demarco will be speaking on Preserving our Dundee, Edinburgh and Rose Bruford Theatre Culture, Shaping our Future. In addition to Demarco School, the Art Academy of Wroclaw and National Foundation performances and exhibitions Film School of Poland in Lodz amongst others. At programme in this year's Summerhall festival are two Summerhall, the archive will furnish an ever changing events with Richard Demarco: group of exhibitions linking with British and foreign A GIFT FOR RICHARD DEMARCO institutions and uiversities and will be added to by other collections coming to Summerhall temporarily Teresa Brayshaw, Noel Witts & Friends or permanently. The Demarco European Art DATE: 6 & 8 Aug TIME: 14.15 – 15.15 (1 hour) Foundation is also planning for a European Pavilion VENUE: Red Lecture Theatre PRICE: £6.00 (£4.00) for the 2013 Venice Biennale and a major exhibition SUITABLE FOR: All ages at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Warsaw. Teresa Brayshaw and friends perform a variety of material using some of Demarco's own writings, his In 2012 we mark recent deaths of artists and favourite authors and friends - letters, diary entries, collectors in the Demarco Archive: Scots: Robert diatribes... Callender, James Howie, Gerald Laing, Gavin Scobie, a tribute for his 83rd year. Bill Scott, and George Wyllie; Poles: Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz and Jerzy Nowosielski; Germans, Sigmar AN EVENING WITH RICHARD DEMARCO,CBE Polke and Angela Weyersberg; and Italians: Count Fringe University & Demarco European Panza di Biumo and Paolo Cardazzo (art collectors Art Foundation chaired by Prof.