Collective Guide July – September 2014

Jul — Sept 2014 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café

Ross Sinclair

20 Years of Real Life Admission Free 27.06.14 – 31.08.14

Ross Sinclair, 20 Years of Real Life, 2014.

Photo credit: Ross Sinclair

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.

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

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Satellites Programme

Still from The Ballad of 20 Years of Real Life, 2014.

Matthew Richardson 20 September – 2 November Preview 19 September For his exhibition, Matthew Richardson will produce a new, single channel HD-video made for a flat-screen monitor. The video depicts an anthropomorphised wind turbine character, which loses its means of subsistence.

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 to be 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 Available from 1 August 2014 The third audio work in the Observers’ Walks series is by Tris Vonna-Michell, and will be available from 1 August 2014.

Tris is making 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.

Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen is available to download from the Collective website and to purchase as a limited edition USB stick designed

by Plastique Fantastique for £30.

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Dane Sutherland Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen is a project curated by Satellites Programme Intern, Dane Sutherland. He has worked with a number of leading artists to create new music, sound artworks and texts. Artists include: AAS, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Plastique Fantastique, Head Gallery, Jillian Mayer, WE, English Heretic, Michelle Hannah, Benedict Drew, POLLYFIBRE, The Cult of RAMM:ELL:ZEE, Xempeer and Kornelia Remø Klokk.

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For her Satellites Programme exhibition, Marie-Michelle has created a new sound installation, stemming from her research and correspondence with Louis Wolfson, an American writer who dedicated his life to developing his ‘own’ language to counter his deep-rooted fear of the English language.

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

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Part of GENERATION, a landmark series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland.

Marie-Michelle Deschamps 26 July – 7 September Preview 25 July Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ installations and artist’s books deconstruct language as a means of investigating the relationship between text and objects.

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

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The instruments form an integral part of Ross’s installation. Each Saturday afternoon throughout the exhibition, there are drop in sessions where teenagers can try them out.

Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen, limited edition USB, curated by Dane Sutherland, artwork designed

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Ross’ exhibition at Collective will provide an opportunity to look back at the last twenty years of his work, while also firmly positioning it in the present and imagining possible futures.

20 Years of Real Life launches a yearlong project Free Instruments for Teenagers!

Five new bands made up of teenagers will be provided with instruments and will work with Ross and a team of mentors to write and perform new music.

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

All Sided Games

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Ross Sinclair 20 Years of Real Life 27 June – 31 August 20 years of Real Life is a new installation by Ross Sinclair. 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of Ross's Real Life projects.

Throughout that time Ross has sought to re-imagine the relationships in our society through an ongoing investigation of the many institutions and constructs to which we are all inextricably linked, both collectively and as individuals.

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City Dome is Collective’s major new space for exhibitions and commissions.

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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 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.

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.

Mitch Miller | Jacob Dahlgren | Nils Norman | Florrie James | Dennis McNulty All Sided Games is delighted to announce Dennis McNulty as the sixth All Sided Games commission. He will work in and around the MOD’s Barry Buddon Training Centre – the venue for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games’ Shooting Events. Dennis will develop a new work with groups and individuals from the neighbouring towns of Barry and Carnoustie.

Florrie James is currently developing a new film work with residents in the east end of Glasgow that explores ideas of the city. Filming takes place in July and the film will be screened in September.

Events Mitch Miller is working on two new dialectograms in Glasgow: one at Helenslea Community Hall and at Baltic Street Adventure Playground. All Sided Games worked with Baltic Street Adventure Playground in April as part of Play Summit – a threeday event with artist Nils Norman and art & architecture collective Assemble, which considered the state of play in Scotland and beyond.

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

All Sided Games celebrated the Queen's Baton Relay visiting Meadowbank Sports Centre on Saturday 14 June 2014 with Jacob Dahlgren's No Conflict, No Irony (I love the whole world), 2013, a 100-metre banner made in collaboration with families from across Edinburgh, out on the track and with Mitch Miller's Piershill Community Flat and Meadowbank dialectograms on display.

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A Summer School + Symposium on Locality 8 – 12 September 2014 £100 for week £50 for symposium - a symposium and weeklong programme considering the topic of locality: asking what constitutes the local now, and what role do artists and art organisations play in shaping this locality?

Mitch Miller, Games End, 2013.

Gallery Tours Each Wednesday at 1pm Marie-Michelle Deschamps Preview 25 July, 6-8pm Matthew Richardson Preview 19 September, 6-8pm

Invited participants include Chloe Cooper, Eastern Surf, Janna Graham and Harry Weeks, who will lead workshops, readings, field trips and debates and keynote speaker Alexandra Baudelot. The weeklong programme and symposium will be a chance to take part in, trial and discuss art practices that question how we live in and understand a locale - considering interactions between buildings and users, our relations with each other in a city, and how these structures govern and condition our behaviour.