Girls star Lena Dunham to be particular visitor at Edinburgh Art Festival occasion
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ena Dunham, the star of hit comedy-drama sequence Girls, has been introduced as a particular visitor at a efficiency in the course of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
The Golden Globe winner will be a part of sculpture artist Lindsey Mendick for a dialog entitled Shameful Women on August 19.
Both girls will converse brazenly and actually about their private experiences in the course of the one-off occasion at Jupiter Artland, a recent sculpture park and artwork gallery on the outskirts of town.
Dunham is a author, director, actor and producer who was born and raised in New York City. She wrote and appeared in Girls, which ran for six sequence and was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys awards.
She has received two Golden Globes, a Writer’s Guild Award, and was the primary lady to win the DGA award for finest director for a tv comedy. Her prose has been printed in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vogue, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times.
Mendick works predominantly with clay, and homes her art work in life-like installations, recreating scenes from her private life.
Her solo fee is at present introduced throughout Jupiter Artland’s galleries. It is her largest fee thus far and presents a recent view of duality and supposed binaries between good and evil, advantage and depravity, and gender roles.
The two girls will come collectively at this 12 months’s Jupiter Rising competition, which takes place at Jupiter Artland over a single night time and also will function reside music, dancing, karaoke and DJ units.
Jupiter Artland founder and director Nicky Wilson stated: “These two women bring their power of observation and relentlessly confessional instincts to site their work in a most compelling medium themselves.
“This talk is not about women and shame, it’s an exploration about shameful, proud women that transmute shame into observations that resonate with us all.
“Mendick does not shy away from confession and mess as she presents unflinching observations of the power of drink – it’s fun and it’s optimism alongside the messiness and regret that it also inflicts.”
Kim McAleese, director of the Edinburgh Art Festival, stated: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Jupiter Artland on this amazing one-night event, with such a fantastic range of collaborators and performers and curated by active, important and exciting artists and arts workers.
“Our EAF 2023 programme is one which seeks to platform local grassroots artists alongside those working globally and is a programme which is deeply connected to feminist and queer practice.
“This event will be a key moment in our 2023 programme and will also of course be a memorable day and night of art, music and dancing and for people to come together.”
For additional details about Jupiter Rising and to purchase tickets, go to www.jupiterrising.artwork.