Collective Guide October – December 2014

Oct — Dec 2014 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café

Vanessa Billy

Sustain, Sustain Admission Free 11.10.14 – 21.12.14

Vanessa Billy, Extended Finger (detail), 2014 Courtesy of the artist, BolteLang, Zurich and Limoncello, London.

Photograph by Gunnar Meier

About Collective Collective is a contemporary visual art organisation that delivers an exciting and ambitious programme of new exhibitions and projects. Collective has been established for 30 years this year, and in that time it has become fundamental to the cultural vitality of visual art in Scotland.

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. This new world-class complex will combine innovative art and iconic heritage, creating a new synergy for the enjoyment of and benefit to the public.

Visit our website for ongoing updates on the project.

Partners already involved in this project include: City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund, Architectural Heritage Fund and Edinburgh World Heritage.

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 +

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Vanessa is based in Zurich and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has recently won the 2014 Swiss Art Award. Sustain, Sustain is the first solo exhibition of Vanessa’s work in Scotland.

Matthew is an artist whose varied practice to date has included sculpture, writing and curating. Through his work, Matthew considers the relationship between the procedure of making an artwork, the production of subjectivity, art’s function (or lack of), value, surplus, loss, and decline.

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

All Sided Games is a series of 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 with artists to make new work of mutual interest.

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Tris Vonna-Michell The Artist and The Gravedigger: After D.O. Hill 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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Collette Rayner, Access as idiot distraction, 2014

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Matthew Richardson PM 20 September – 2 November Preview 19 September For Satellites Programme, Matthew has produced a new digital animation with the assistance of Thee Tosayanond. The animation has been specifically conceived and installed for Collective’s temporary exhibition space.

The digitally produced moving images created out of algorithmic binary to produce representations of two decipherable objects that will be read within the backdrop of Calton Hill.

Collette Rayner Access as idiot distraction 15 November – 25 January 2015 Preview 14 November For her exhibition Collette has created a new film based on her research into the Principality of Sealand, a sovereign principality established in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the coast of Britain.

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

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Vanessa Billy Sustain, Sustain 11 October – 21 December Preview 10 October Vanessa Billy’s sculptural works consider the social and industrial exploitation of natural resources. Often combining different, everyday, transient materials and found objects such as vitamin pills, light bulbs, water, sump oil, Vaseline or rocks alongside traditional art materials such as bronze, glass and resin. Vanessa’s installations expose the complex and contradictory relationship our society has towards the environment.

Vanessa Billy, End of Days, 2013 Courtesy of the artist and BolteLang, Zurich Photograph by Alexander Hana

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Collective will be closed from Monday 22 December 2014 and reopen on Tuesday 6 January 2015.

We are delighted to announce the selected participants for the 2015 Satellites Programme: Practitioners: Thomas Aitchison France-Lise McGurn | Scott Rogers | Hardeep Pandhal Associate Producer: Georgia Horgan We look forward to an exciting programme in which the practitioners and interns can develop their practice over the next year. Solo presentations and projects will be produced by the selected practitioners and producer and will be presented throughout 2015.

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Bedwyr Williams Outwith 20mins 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mitch Miller | Jacob Dahlgren Cristina Lucas | Nils Norman Florrie James | Dennis McNulty Florrie James | Brighthouse Film Screening 25 September 2014 at 7pm Cineworld Parkhead Glasgow G31 4EB FREE but please book at brighthouse.eventbrite.co.uk Set in 2044, Brighthouse is a reflection on and reaction to regeneration and displacement of community in the east end of Glasgow. The story talks of civil exclusion, violence of the state, ways of living together, and love and hope in ‘The Walled City’.

There will also be a Q&A with the artist following the screening.

Florrie James, Brighthouse, still from HD video, 2014. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by Collective, with support from Creative Scotland.

Events Dennis McNulty A Leisure Complex Performance 25 October 2014 at 7pm Carnoustie Leisure Centre Carnoustie DD7 7JB A Leisure Complex explores the layers of history embedded in Carnoustie Leisure Centre's architecture. The audience will be led through the building and encounter a series of musical performances in its original 1930s-built Beach Hall, additions to the building made in the 1980s, and its recently constructed Cafe.

Limited ticket availabilty Tickets are FREE but a refundable deposit of £5 is required Booking opens at 10am on 10 October 2014 leisurecomplex.eventbrite.co.uk Mitch Miller September sees the completion of Mitch’s final two All Sided Games dialectograms, both in Glasgow – at Helenslea Community Hall and Baltic Street Adventure Playground.

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All events are free unless stated. To book and for further details please visit www.collectivegallery.net Gallery Tours Each Wednesday at 1pm Matthew Richardson Preview 19 September, 6-8pm Vanessa Billy Preview 10 October, 6-8pm Collette Rayner Preview 14 November

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, Innerleithan.

Black-Neb £200 May the People £150 Salisbury Crags £150 Dane Sutherland Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen is a limited edition USB stick with music, sound artworks and texts, curated by Dane Sutherland and designed by Plastique Fantastique. Exploit.zzxjoanw.

Gen is available to download from the Collective website and to purchase for £30.