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Edinburgh Art Festival and the Annuale

Jack Mottram

November 2005

"... In the spirit of the Annuale, The Embassy presented Teaming, a show devoted to art made collaboratively, including a live performance by art-rockabilly group Uncle John & Whitelock and archive footage of a 1965 Boyle Family performance, Oh What A Lovely Whore, which saw the audience run amok, gleefully smashing pianos and  after Mark Boyle opening proceedings with the words, 'If you want an event, you'll have to do it yourselves'... "

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Published in The Map  


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Steep Annuale Growth at the Fringes

Susan Mansfield

23rd August 2005

Every gallery in Edinburgh pulls the stops out in August. Last year, for the first time, the main city galleries publicised their shows under the banner of the Art Festival. Not to be outdone, the artist-run initiatives got together under their own banner, The Annuale."

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Published in The Scotsman

Edinburgh Annuale

Aurora, The Embassy, Total Kunst, Magnifitat and Wuthering Heights

Neil Mulholland

October 2004


"The Edinburgh Festival is so jam packed that it would take years to attend all the proceedings. Given this cultural glut, why launch an Annuale in August? The Festival, consisting of a few insipid blockbusters and a spattering of Sunday painters, is not exactly legendary for pioneering visual arts programming..."

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Published in Flash Art