The turmoil and excitement of the Edinburgh Festival may be over, but some of the most thrilling and compelling visual arts shows to have appeared in the capital this summer can still be explored until the end of the month.
The turmoil and excitement of the Edinburgh Festival may be over, but some of the most thrilling and compelling visual arts shows to have appeared in the capital this summer can still be explored until the end of the month.
PRIZE GUYS: Summerhall owner Robert McDowell (second left) and artists David Michalek (right) receiving their Angel award last Saturday from Chris Sutton and Diana Vishneva Picture: Steve Cox
The exploration will involve making your way upstairs, downstairs, to the library, then to the sheds, turning left or right to the animal hospital, the laboratory, the dissection room, then to the church. There is also a secret show hidden behind the locked doors where you must be careful where you tread or you'll plunge 40 meters down and land possibly in one of the postmortem rooms. All this in one mausoleum of a venue – the former Edinburgh's Royal Dick School of Veterinary – now the acclaimed Summerhall. The eeriness and obsolescence of this labyrinthine venue, now even more pronounced when the crowds are gone, serve as a setting for a truly thrilling, if sometimes confusing, visual arts programme.
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