"Everybody Comes to Holyrood" aims to create a timely dialogue between a distinctly local phenomenon and the practice of a range of contemporary artists.



Every year the urbane reserve of Edinburgh is jolted into the festival season. Once almost entirely the domain of "high culture", recent years have seen the definite ascendance of the full-scale international media circus. Television crews chase leads down cobbled wynds. Rumours fly about the city as to exactly which screen stars are ensconced in The Witchery. And papers gossip about who will –allegedly- be putting in an appearance en route to the inevitable highlands wedding…