Performance Art, Forest Fringe

Holding Patterns

By Tim Etchells

Wednesday 26 August: 10.00pm

Holding Pattern is a 55-minute improvised torrent of language and original sound. Continuing Etchells’ exploration of writing, performance and music, the piece combines sound loops, stream-of-consciousness text and fragments of Google searches. Hovering between poem and delirious narrative, comedy and tragedy, it becomes a whirlwind in slow motion: erratic, exhausting and ecstatic, like the soundtrack to an imaginary film about now, shot on an iPhone from the back of a burning, spinning car. Etchells is an artist, writer and the artistic director of Sheffield-based Forced Entertainment.

This will be a special stripped-back show for Shedinburgh.

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    • £13.50
    • 26 August 2026
    • 55 minutes
    • 22:00
    • Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint
    • Age 14+ (Guideline)
    • warning
      May contain upsetting images/references to upsetting ideas.
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    Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint

    3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh

    EH1 1EY

    Shedinburgh (Venue 322)