This Week in Scottish Art: 2-8 August

Tue 2 Aug: Sound art at Trinity Apse

Begin this week's bumper art week with a visit to the Trinity Apse to take part in artist Olivia Webb's new audio installation. Tonight from 7-8pm, she'll lead a free choral workshop and will be recording audio for her work, which will be presented at the Apse on the final weekend of the Edinburgh Art Festival. There's another chance to take part this Saturday from 3-4pm; free bookings can be made here.

Wed 3 Aug: New exhibitions at Summerhall

Summerhall unveils its new programme of exhibitions from 7pm on Wednesday. They've titled it Noisemaker, and the theme is artist as communicator and agitator, via "The arresting, and subversion, of sound, dialogue, gestures and text". They've set up an Eventbrite for the launch, asking for RSVPs.

Thu 4 Aug: Art Late, Jupiter Artland at Dusk, new Martin Boyce in Glasgow

This Thursday sees the first Art Late programme of late openings and events. For £8.87(6.25), the ticket price includes complimentary drinks and entry to talks and tours around a host of Edinburgh Art Festival exhibitions. This week's starts at National Museum of Scotland, then heads to Talbot Rice Gallery, Dovecot and The Number Shop, before finishing up at The List Festival Party at Summerhall. Tickets are available to buy now.

There's also the chance to see the collections of Jupiter Artland at dusk, with a special opening from 6-9pm, standard entry prices apply (adult £8.50, student £4.50). 

For the first Thursday at Trongate this month, renowned Glasgow sculptor Martin Boyce launches a new publication in Streetlevel Photoworks from 6.30pm. There's also a new exhibition starting in the Glasgow Print Studio First Floor Gallery, by recent octogenarian John Taylor, whose paintings take in Glasgow and Sometimes Further Afar (as the exhibition title promises). There's also On Paper 2016 downstairs, an annual printmaking prize now in its second year.

Fri 5 Aug: Edinburgh Art Festival events, Tramway

Early in the day, Ruth Barker performs a new spoken word piece in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1, "a poetic monologue that follows the meandering path of the River Lealt in Staffin, Skye." No booking necessary, from 3-3.45pm.

In this month's magazine we catch up with the participants in the Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition, their pick of the most exciting emerging artists. On Friday from 6pm at the EAF Kiosk (9–11 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR), Proudfoot and Piasecka – one of two artist duos featured this year – will perform Made to be Broken, which "explore the destructive force that is central to creation."

Goulash – Step 2 opens from 6-9pm, the second opening in the five-part exhibition. This week, see work from previous Skinny showcaser Flo Gordon and artist Alessandro DiMassimo.

In Glasgow, Tramway previews Printshop! from 7-9pm, which sees a functioning studio installed in the gallery. Here, every weekend visitors will be able to collaborate in artist-led print workshops, with introductions to "techniques such as screenprinting, bookbinding and letterpress".

Sat 6 Aug: ESW, Pipe Factory, Jupiter Artland, The Project Room

From 2pm this Saturday, artist Kenny Hunter will give a presentation on his subversive take on the idea of the monumental and how it informs his sculptural and public artist practice. Taking place in the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, he'll be thinking specifically of the new work he's showing there. No booking necessary, it's a free event and the audience is invited to visit the show before and asks questions after.

Then to Glasgow for the second artist's talk of the afternoon, by Antoine Nessi at 3pm. He'll be presenting on his recently opened exhibition in the Pipe Factory, the outcome of his residency in the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Titled Tour of an Uncertain Soldier, it's a showcase of his latest work, which incorporates subversive and sculptural references to contemporary warfare and the weapon industry.

Later in the evening from 5-9pm in Edinburgh, Nemoralia takes over Jupiter Artland for the evening. It's a specially-curated evening of performance by an invited organiser, artist Alexa Hare. As part of her prep for the evening, Hare has magickally dowsed the venue and used the old technique (think "dowsing for gold") to pair the invited performers with permanent works from across the sculpture park. Tickets cost £15 for adults, £10 for children.

Back in Glasgow, at the Project Room from 7pm, Glasgow-based artists Madeleine Virginia Brown and Philippe Murphy present a new collaborative work from 7-9pm. Titled TEST, it continues until 14 August.

Mon 8 Aug: Under the Skin at Filmhouse

Starting off the next week, the organisers of the Scottish Endarkenment exhibition at Dovecot continue their programme of screenings at the Filmhouse with Scarlett Johansson's recent turn at a Glasgow-cruising, human-eating alien creep in Under the Skin. After the film, the curator and an invited speaker will lead a chat about the film in relation to an idea of the sometimes-dark Scottish psyche. The event starts at 6pm, and normal Filmhouse ticket rates apply.