Collective Guide, October - December 2015

Oct — Dec 2015 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café

Ross Sinclair Free Instruments for Teenagers Record Launch 05.12.15 Ross Sinclair, 20 Years of Real Life – Free Instruments for Teenagers, vinyl record cover, 2015. Courtesy the artist

About Collective

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Collective was established in 1984 to support the production of new art in Edinburgh. In 2013 we moved to Calton Hill to redevelop the City Observatory complex. Our vision is to become a new kind of City Observatory for Edinburgh, a space in which practitioners, producers and publics can meet, think, debate, reflect upon the past and take action.

Collective has an open-air café run by MILK 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.

Open:

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.

Collective will be closed from Monday 21 December 2015 and reopen on Tuesday 5 January 2016.

To make a donation by text: You can give £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10.

Example: text COLL38 £ followed by the amount you would like to donate to 70070.

Tuesday to Sunday October – March 10am – 4pm April – September 10am – 5pm

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This programme of commissions will include; discussions, screenings and walks, providing opportunity for artists and audiences to engage with our locality and consider new ways for people to work together.

An Exchange of Method An Exchange of Method is a collaborative research project based around an exchange between arts organisations and artists in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Edinburgh.

Petra Bauer Petra is working in collaboration with local women’s organisations in Edinburgh to research the relationships between present day initiatives and twentieth century feminist activity.

Friday Lecture Series with Petra Bauer 30 October | 11:30am Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

Collective is redeveloping the whole City Observatory complex as the gallery’s new home, conserving and reinstating the original Playfair designs and creating a newbuild gallery space and restaurant. The entire site will be freely open and accessible to the public for the first time in its history.

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

Friday Lecture Series with Petra Bauer 30 October | 11:30am Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF Petra Bauer will present her work and discuss her interest in film as a political practice, as part of the School of Art’s Friday Lecture Series.

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Associate Producers: Anastasia Philimonos | Katie Schwab We look forward to an exciting programme in which the artists and producers can develop their practice over the next year.

Hardeep Pandal, Human Parody after Fêlicien Rops (detail), ink and gouache on paper, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.

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Hardeep Pandhal Hobson-Jobson 14 Nov 2015 – 17 Jan 2016 Preview 13 November | 6—8pm Hardeep Pandhal’s practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, video and knitting. The title Hobson-Jobson refers to a Victorian-era glossary of Anglo-Indian words. These colloquial terms are highly assimilated, typically vulgar adoptions of foreign words into English. Hobson-Jobson frames Hardeep’s research into processes of translation, uneasy humour and his interest in stories of identity and difference. The exhibition will bring together new drawings and videos building on this research and re-worked autobiographical material such as home videos, to tell conflicted stories around the artist’s own identity.

Artists: Jennifer Bailey | Mark Beakley | Hamish Young

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James Hutchinson Calton Hill Asterisms James’ project takes inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s Denkbilder (thought-images), a series of portraits of cities produced in the 1920s. Benjamin sought to represent the cities through the selection and arrangements of fragments, eschewing the superficiality offered by guidebooks produced for the banal tourist.

Satellites Programme 2016 We are delighted to announce the selected participants for the 2016 Satellites Programme:

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An Exchange of Method is supported by the British Council and Outset Scotland.

Scott Rogers Endling 12 September – 1 November Preview 11 September | 6—8pm Endling is an exhibition of new work by Glasgow based artist Scott Rogers. Incorporating sculpture and text, the exhibition is the culmination of research developed from Scott’s interest in processes of decay, mutation and disappearance. The artworks focus on ideas of extinction and the relationships between preservation and collapse.

Satellites Programme 2014 Publication Marie-Michelle Deschamps Kathryn Elkin | Catrin Jeans Collette Rayner | Matthew Richardson | Dane Sutherland Laura Yuile This publication showcases Satellites Programme 2014 artists and producers. It has been edited by Laura Yuile and designed by Maeve Redmond.

Available to view or buy for £5 from www.collectivegallery.net

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The Constellations Programme builds on the expertise Collective has developed in bringing people together with artists to create works of mutual interest through programmes such as One Mile, The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value and All Sided Games.

Public Discussion Event Thursday 19th November | 7pm Basic Mountain, 1 Hill Street, Edinburgh EH2 3JP

Satellites Programme is Collective's development programme for emergent artists based in Scotland.

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During the redevelopment of the City Observatory complex we have commissioned a series of three research based, offsite projects. Two are lead by artists Petra Bauer and James Hutchinson and the third is An Exchange of Method, a project that will foster exchange and knowledge sharing between Scotland and Brazil.

The project is an opportunity to share and progress contemporary art practice or to enhance knowledge and advocacy in 'caring' environments.

The project will begin in October 2015 with a research visit to Rio and will be followed by closed workshops held in both Rio and 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

Collective’s vision is to be a new kind of City Observatory for Edinburgh, encouraging engagement, connecting with the locality through the acts of looking, thinking and producing in relation to the historic culture of the site.

Collective is now working with Collective Architecture to progress the plans aiming to open the site in 2017. The City Dome is now shut until the whole site is open.

Tris Vonna-Michell The Artist and The Gravedigger: After D.O. Hill 17 mins Tris Vonna-Michell has made a work centred on the pioneering calotype photography of David Octavius Hill, who worked with Robert Adamson at Rock House, which is on the south west side of Calton Hill.

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.

Satellites Programme Event 5 November | 7pm During the Satellites Programme 2015 participants have been paired with interdisciplinary researchers from Edinburgh College of Art, at the University of Edinburgh.

Brought together to develop specific parts of their practice and exchange knowledge, this event is an opportunity for the participants to present shared interests discovered through this process.

An Exchange of Method Discussion Event 19th November | 7pm Basic Mountain, 1 Hill Street, Edinburgh EH2 3JP This event will reflect on the project to date and identify next steps in the research project.

Contributions include; Kate Gray, Director of Collective; Alison Stirling, Artlink Edinburgh; Izabela Pucu, Director of Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica; and Jefferson Vasconcelos, Norte Colom artists collective in Rio.

Ross Sinclair 20 Years of Real Life Free Instruments for Teenagers: Record Launch 5 December 2015 Free Instruments For Teenagers: Record Launch is a one off music performance in Collective’s City Dome.

Bringing together the bands formed during Ross Sinclair’s exhibition 20 Years of Real Life, this event is a celebration to launch a vinyl sampler of new songs by the bands and Ross.

Free Instruments for Teenagers is a co-production programme between young people and the artist Ross Sinclair that gave away instruments to people born in the last 20 years in order to form new bands. The bands have been working with Collective and Ross through a series of workshops and mentoring sessions with invited artists and musicians, to write, record and perform new music. Collective has worked in partnership with the youth music initiative at Canongate Youth to provide ongoing support for the bands and record the tracks for the vinyl.

The three bands that feature on the vinyl are: Appear Invisible | Bedroom Athlete | Enemy Fire Full event details are available on www.collectivegallery.net