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Rachael Cloughton selects a handful of the best visual art to explore over the festival’s second week
NIGHT WALK FOR EDINBURGH Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have made ‘Night Walks’ for cities all over the world; they are intimate, one-on-one video walks in which the audience are guided through the city by the artists’ voice. This offering, commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery, takes audiences through Edinburgh’s Old Town at twilight, conjuring a parallel city where past and present seem to collide. See feature, right. Fruitmarket Gallery, until 25 Aug (not 12, 19), 8pm, £15. Walks start and end at The Milkman on Cockburn Street.
TRISHA BROWN: TIME, SPACE,
GRAVITY Jupiter Artland’s ballroom provides an apt platform for the first major UK retrospective exhibition dedicated to this pioneering American choreographer. Works are taken from Brown’s moving-image archive and span her 40 year career, from early
site-specific pieces performed across New York streets to later productions in collaboration with other ground-breaking artists, like Laurie Anderson and Robert Rauschenberg. See review, page 103. Jupiter Artland, until 29 Sep, £9 (£8).
HANNA TUULIKKI: DEER HUNTER
Taking inspiration from traditional dances from around the world that have their origins in attempts to emulate the hunting and rutting behaviour of deer and stags, Tuulikki creates a playful new film: Deer Dancer. Here, Tuuliiki performs the part of several imagined historical figures, accompanied by a haunting vocal score by the artist. The beautifully crafted costumes worn in the film are also exhibited. See review, page 103. Edinburgh Printmakers, until 6 Oct, free.
Hanna Tuulikki
GRAYSON PERRY – JULIE COPE’S GRAND TOUR
Originally made for Grayson Perry’s secular chapel A House for Essex, the artist’s larger-than-life tapestries are now on tour, stopping
at Dovecot for the Edinburgh Art Festival. The works are dedicated to Julie Cope, a fictional everyday woman whose ‘average life’ Perry has chosen to commemorate through this grand series of works,
deliberately juxtaposing art’s associations of status, wealth and heritage with current concerns of class and social aspiration. See review, page 103. Dovecot Studios, until 2 Nov, £9 (£8).
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