Collective Guide, January-March 2015

Jan — Mar 2015 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Beauty and the Right to the Ugly Admission Free 17.01.15 - 29.03.15

Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014, still from the film (55 mins).

Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist. Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014, was produced in collaboration with Auguste Orts with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Collective, Edinburgh.

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MILK Open-Air Café

Collective is in the final stage of fundraising to develop the City Observatory complex and aims to fully open the entire walled complex to the public in 2016. Read more about the project and how you can help inside or visit our website for further information.

Collective has an open-air café run by MILK which recently had a special mention in Travel Magazine. The seasonally changing menu is freshly prepared using only natural ingredients.

Now serving hot soup and toasted sandwiches.

Open during gallery opening hours every week.

Lunchtime Meal Deal Each Wednesday at 1pm we have a new £5 lunch deal – coffee + a sandwich from MILK café and a gallery tour by Collective staff.

Open: Tuesday to Sunday October – March 10am – 4pm April – September 10am – 5pm August only: Monday to Sunday 10am – 6pm Follow us on facebook Find us on twitter @1984_collective + 44 (0) 131 556 1264 mail@collectivegallery.net www.collectivegallery.net

Design: Graphical House

Half-way between directing the participants and letting them take the lead, the work is a performative enactment of the issues it addresses. The film is a continuation of the artist’s interest on filmmaking as a perfomative device and of her on-going research and interest in collectiveness, its intersection with the private and the role cultural production plays in this.

Wendelien has recently been awarded the prestigious Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art.

Observers’ Walks

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Satellites Programme is Collective’s development Programme for emergent artists and practitioners based in Scotland.

All Sided Games is a series of off-site commissions, placing artists in and around venues built or used for the Edinburgh 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games and in venues used for the Glasgow 2014 Games.

It brings people together to make work of mutual interest.

Collective Gallery City Observatory | City Dome 38 Calton Hill, Edinburgh EH7 5AA

Observers’ Walks is a series of downloadable audio guides specially created by artists to be listened to on Calton Hill.

Collective is now in the final stage of fundraising to open up the entire City Observatory site to visitors for the first time.

This internationally significant heritage site will be a place to inspire artists and allow us to continue to invest in their development and bring new visions to everyone for free.

The Heritage Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland Lottery, The Architectural Heritage Fund along with other trusts and foundations.

We are on track with fundraising and aim to begin work on site by September of this year. We need your help to make sure the new complex is fully open to the public in 2016.

All events are free unless stated. To book and for further details please visit www.collectivegallery.net

The City Observatory was the birthplace of astronomy and timekeeping in Edinburgh, and the complex on Calton Hill is one of the city’s most important sites. It straddles the Old and New Towns and is a jewel in the crown of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Behind the walls of the complex sits the City Observatory, designed

by William Henry Playfair in 1818, as a temple to scientific innovation and discovery. It is of great architectural, scientific and cultural significance but it requires major investment and conservation as it is in a state of disrepair and on the Buildings at Risk Register.

Please help to secure the future of this site.

Georgia Horgan Preview 13 February | 6-8pm

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Example: text COLL38 £10 to 70070.

A Labour of Love A workshop and half day symposium 21 February, Edinburgh What does it mean to love work? Our willingness to work, or the expectation to be passionate and enthusiastic at work can have significant implications on how we perform as artists and cultural workers.

Woodcut from Newes from Scotland, 1592, courtesy of Glasgow University Library Special Collections.

Throughout All Sided Games, Mitch has embedded himself in the routines and events of the people who work in or use these places.

The dialectograms are produced and informed by a process of conversation, observational note taking, writing and drawing.

On completion, each dialectogram is gifted to the host organisation.

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The three year off-site programme All Sided Games draws to a close with the completion of Mitch Miller’s final dialectogram of Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Glasgow. This large-scale, highly detailed, annotated drawing complements the two already completed dialectograms produced with Piershill Community Flat and Meadowbank Sports Centre, in Edinburgh.

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Mitch Miller | Jacob Dahlgren | Cristina Lucas Nils Norman | Florrie James Dennis McNulty

Tris Vonna-Michell The Artist and The Gravedigger: After D.O. Hill 17 mins The third audio work in the Observers’ Walks series is by Tris Vonna-Michell.

Tris made a work centred on the pioneering calotype photography of David Octavius Hill, who worked with Robert Adamson at Rock House, which overlooks Waterloo Place on the south west side of Calton Hill.

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Georgia Horgan Machine Room 14 February – 19 April Preview 13 February For the first exhibition of Satellites Programme 2015, Georgia presents a research project about the proliferation of the textile industry in Scotland, and how this affected patterns of witch hunting in the seventeenth century. Using Caliban and The Witch by Italian feminist-Marxist scholar Silvia Federici as a central text, the research proposes how Scotland can be understood as a compelling model for her ideas that underline the inextricable connection between primitive accumulation and the disciplining of the female body.

The exhibition takes the form of a workroom, which contains writing, images and artifacts.

From here, the space will be used to house a series of events and screenings, discussing how women, the body and labour are implicated in contemporary capitalism.

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Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014, still from the film (55 mins).

Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.

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Royal Terrace

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Beauty and the Right to the Ugly 17 January – 29 March Preview 16 January Beauty and the Right to the Ugly is a cinematic experiment set in Het Karregat, a multifunctional community centre in Eindhoven designed

by Frank Van Klingeren, which sought to propitiate communal forms of habitation. Wendelien van Oldenborgh examines the ambition – and failure – of utopian architecture, while conceiving and implementing a filming methodology that translates architecture premises such as ‘open’, ‘user-led’ and ‘participative’ into cinematic devices.

Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014 was produced in collaboration with Auguste Orts with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fonds Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and Collective, Edinburgh.

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Collective is based at the City Observatory complex on Calton Hill. Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, it is a few minutes' walk from Waverley railway station.

Calton Hill is accessible on foot from Waterloo Place, and Royal Terrace.

If you require disabled access please contact the gallery on + 44 (0)131 556 1264

Bedwyr Williams Outwith 20 mins Performed by Hilary Lyon This audio guide takes the listener through a series of stories created by the artist, which are all set in a local hotel, visible from Calton Hill.

Ruth Ewan and Astrid Johnston Memorialmania 54 mins Narrated by Tam Dean Burn and Ruth Milne In Memorialmania, Ruth Ewan and Astrid Johnston concentrate on the monuments and geology of Edinburgh’s Calton Hill.

Observers’ Walks is funded

by Outset Scotland. The tracks are available to download from Collective’s website or mp3 players can be borrowed from our reception during opening hours.

Malcolm Fraser Architects were appointed in July 2014 to develop plans for the site and together, we will conserve and reinstate the original Playfair designs and create a new-build gallery space and restaurant with amazing views on the site.

We are now proud to have support for the capital redevelopment project from Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh World Heritage,

Events

Donations sent via text will usually incur your standard text message fee.

Editions Ruth Ewan Print Editions Collective is pleased to present three new woodblock print editions by Ruth Ewan.

The prints have been informed and developed from the research undertaken for the Memorialmania Obsevers' Walks, produced in collaboration with Astrid Johnston. Each print is an edition of 20 by Robert Smail’s Printing Works, Innerleithen.

Black-Neb £200 May the People £150 Salisbury Crags £150

Gallery Tours Each Wednesday at 1pm Wendelien van Oldenborgh Preview 16 January | 6-8pm

Bringing together international artists for a morning workshop and an afternoon of presentations, films and performance, A Labour of Love will stimulate discussions about the practical experiences of art working and the impact of post-crash economics on art and ideas.

A Labour of Love has been devised by Jenny Richards in association with Collective and supported through the public engagement programme for GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland.

Further details of the symposium will be available on www.collectivegallery.net in January 2015.