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FESTIVAL VISUAL ART | Hitlist ART HITLIST
Rachael Cloughton highlights some of the best visual art in week three of the festival
RECIPROCITI Designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating has created an imaginary bank with its own notes, debit card and cash dispenser. The experimental work questions whether the most mundane of financial transactions can be used as a force for good. See review, page 91. Royal Bank Of Scotland, 142–144 Princes St, 226 2555, until 31 Aug, free.
PLATFORM: 2015 Four distinctive bodies of work by recent graduates; Antonia Banados, Ben Callaghan, Ross Hamilton Frew and Jessica Ramm take centre stage in new Edinburgh Art Festival initiative. Artists were selected through an open call by a selection panel that included Christine Borland and Craig Coulthard. See review, page 89. 9-11 Blair Street, 225 5248, until 30 Aug, free.
central Edinburgh. The exhibition includes sound recordings from Remote Performances, a project set up by London Fieldworks, which invited 20 artists, poets, writers, musicians and community space to reflect on their unique surroundings, alongside other installations and video works relating to Outlandia. See review, page 91. Edinburgh College of Art: Tent Gallery, 651 5800, until 30 Aug, free.
DENNIS AND DEBBIE CLUB: THE STRIP
Audio-visual installation that reconstructs three distinct locations using CGI animations and multiple screens: the greenhouse in which Kurt Cobain shot himself in 1994; a crater on the planet Mars from data captured by ESA’s Mars Express Mission in 2014; and a collage of seemingly timeless buildings found along Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. See review, page 93 CodeBase, Argyle House, 560 2003 until 22, 23, 29, 30 Aug (Sat & Sun only), free.
REMOTE CENTRES: JULIE FAVREAU
PERFORMANCES FROM OUTLANDIA
Works made on residency in a Highland treehouse are exhibited in
Compelling new film created for the Edinburgh Art Festival by Canadian artist Julie Favreau. Blending visual art and choreography, Favreau builds a
Platform: 2015
rich and ambiguous narrative around an isolated female figure and an elastic rope. See review, page 93. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 624 6200, until 30 Aug, free.
DEREK MICHAEL BESANT Solo exhibition by acclaimed multi- media artist. Besant worked closely with the Edinburgh Printmakers community, photographing and surveying members to create intimate portraits. See review, page 93.
Edinburgh Printmakers, 557 2479, until 5 Sep (not Mon & Sat), free.
SCOTTISH ARTISTS Dedicated to works of Scottish art in the Royal Collection including paintings by Allan Ramsay and Alexander Nasmyth. An emphasis is placed on the importance and influence of artists whose work was shaped by the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment. See review, page 93. Queen’s Gallery, 556 5100, until 7 Feb, £6.60 (£6).
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