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As it presents itself – Somewhere vague

Ryan Gander
Dates: 8th March - 18th May
Times: 11am - 6pm Daily

Gander’s claymation video work brings together characters based on Spike Milligan, curator Matthew Higgs, Mrs Frances Gander (the artist’s mother) and the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Louis…

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Nonsense Syllables

Agnieszka Polska
Dates: 8th March - 18th May
Times: 11am - 6pm Daily

Polska is an increasingly well-known Polish video and animation artist who uses appropriation and found film footage in her work. Nostalgia is replaced by a deliberate mis-reading of such archive film…

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Re/Sonant: Karen Lauke and Patrick Lauke

Karen Lauke
Dates: 8th March - 15th May
Times: 11am - 6pm Daily

Lauke is a sound artist who creates site specific noise-scapes. Summerhall is the inspiration for Lauke’s new work which will take place in one of the complex’s atmospheric rooms.

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Art’s first ever video works: Vostell and Paik

Wolf Vostell
Dates: 8th March - 18th May
Times: 11am - 6pm Daily

Vostell has the claim (along with Nam June Paik) to be the first ever person to make an artist’s video. Sun in your head was made in 1963 in Koln and is made up of single frame sequences of TV or film images…

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Clap your hands three times

Richard Martin
Dates: 8th March - 18th May
Times: 11am - 6pm Daily

“I invent opportunities to disrupt and undermine the tensions that maintain and uphold the structures, both actual and symbolic, of society and its hierarchies. It is an attempt to breach the “valid distances“…

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Julie Duffy
Dates: 8 March - 18 May, 2013
Times: 11am

This is the first solo show from artist Julie Duffy since the artist graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2011. The exhibition brings together a new body of work on show in Summerhall’s Project Room…

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Demarco Archive Exhibtion

Various Artists
Dates: March - April 2013
Times: Tuesday- Saturday 1pm -5pm

The Demarco Archive at Summerhall focused on the history of Graphic Art and Design from the 1950s until the late 80s…

Phenotype Genotype (PhG)  (photo: Peter Dibdin)

Phenotype Genotype (PhG)

Heart Fine Art
Dates: Permanent Exhibition
Times: 11am till 6pm Daily (Please note that the Summerhall Galleries will be closed on the public holidays that fall over the festive period.)

The first of Summerhall’s permanent galleries will open its doors for the first time at the Festival. Set in an original laboratory setting, Phenotype Genotype (PhG) will show over 400 small, medium and large works by a wide range of diverse artists amidst items rescued from Summerhall’s scientific past.