Peter Liversidge: Flags for Edinburgh 1 August – 1 September Sarah Kenchington: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh 1 August – 1 September Artist and musician, Sarah Kenchington builds instruments from discarded and abandoned materials. Her most ambitious construction to date, Wind Pipes, is created from hundreds of decommissioned organ pipes, assembled from salvage yards and eBay. Kenchington is fascinated by the connection between body and machine, a connection which is fundamental to early instruction manuals on how to build an organ, where measurements are expressed in terms of the human body (a component should be three fingers wide or the depth of a palm). Precise yet inherently approximate, they suggest an intimate connection between an individual and the product of their labour. Wind Pipes depends on people to come to life, requiring six people to man the bellows, and offering a gathering place for amateurs and professionals alike to play and produce together. A profoundly contemporary construction made from historic materials, Kenchington’s work enjoys a strong connection with the building in which it is sited. Trinity Apse was rebuilt on its current site in the 1870s, part of a larger 15th century church which was removed to make way for Waverley Station. For full details of scheduled performances and workshops, visit our website. Please note this historic venue does not offer disabled access. Peter Liversidge, Flags for Edinburgh, 2013, photograph by Stuart Armitt Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm Trinity Apse, Chalmers Close, 42 High St, EH1 1SS Flags have long been used as a means to communicate – to assert ownership, admit defeat, display allegiance, or indeed request a parley, to draw on the military use of the term. For the duration of the festival, Peter Liversidge invites anyone in the city with a flagpole to fly a white flag which bears the text ‘HELLO’. Liversidge’s project reminds us that in its simplest sense, the flag too is a form of hello, ‘a greeting, an indication of intent be that benevolent or with malice’. In a city which doubles in size in August, Liversidge invites visitors and residents alike to join in a collective and universal greeting: a simple welcome across the rooftops. A buoyant, floating ‘hello’. Of course, despite its simplicity, Liversidge’s work depends for its realisation on a very real conversation across the city about the significance of flags in contemporary culture. Each individual flag only flies as the result of lengthy conversations about what a flag means to the building which flies it, as much as the individual who sees it. Supported through The Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund and by PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music Plus…UK initiative, Hope Scott Trust and City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries. Flags are situated throughout the city centre. See our website for details. Supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland. Sarah Kenchington with a prototype of Wind Pipes for Edinburgh, photograph by Stuart Armitt 4 5