Mutatis Mutandis will drunkenly manouver between performance, installation, photography, performance, video and painting, jostling to coalesce each artist's voyage within the world as we perceive it and the world as portrayed in higher dimensional images. The viewer's interaction with the flat interface of painting, video and walls act as a portal into the imagination. By overlaying these works with performances and their ephemera, the hierarchy of surfaces, incidents and dimensions will be questioned. Bringing together artists from the UK and further a field who work with fiction, storytelling, and post-mythical popular culture as a direct source, this exhibition loosens up notions of narrative and experience. We want to champion the craftsmanship and physical manifestation of performance art, the residue, props, costumes and documentation that are constitute more than mere remainder. The performance series is therefore an integral component of the exhibition Mutatis Mutandis, as it develops over four weeks.

Artists tbc, please check later for additional information.

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The 5th Edinburgh Annuale

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The Annuale, organised by the Embassy Gallery, is now in its fifth year. Running throughout August parallel to the Edinburgh Festivals, it’s an opportunity for local artists and instigators to remind ourselves, the city and its visitors, that we are here. In a range of permanent and temporary venues such as: vacant shop and office units; tenement flats; underground passageways; indoor and outdoor stairwells; public and private gardens; as well as regular and irregular publications, a huge spectrum of creativity is given an extra boost. This year there will be an emphasis on further galvanizing these disparate collectives with a series of salons, artist talks and a symposium highlighting the context of Edinburgh and its complex relationship with contemporary art. We want to highlight the local at a time when the emphasis tends to be on the international. It’s a motivational support network built upon the grassroots foundations that actually function here all year round. A practical and pragmatic camaraderie that says, perhaps we’ll be the bridesmaids, but at least we can have nice frocks.

Details of participants and a timetable of events will be available soon. Meanwhile check the link below for an overview of last years events.