Jul— Dec 2016 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café
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Katie Schwab, Together in a Room, installation, 2016. Photo by Tom Nolan.
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Workshop led by artist Tessa Lynch as part of the Satellites 2016 retreat in Edinburgh.
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Mark Bleakley, A Nude Descends into a Lump, performance, 2016. Photo by Erika Stevenson.
Exhibitions Satellites Programme exhibitions can be visited during gallery opening hours. Wednesday Tour – 3pm Every Wednesday during exhibitions join a member of Collective staff for an informative tour of the current exhibition and the City Observatory site. The tours are drop in so no need to book in advance. Observers’ Walks Observers’ Walks can be downloaded from Collective's website before your visit or mp3 players can be borrowed from our reception during opening hours.
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Eastern Surf, Facing Detection, performance as part of How Near is Here? Summer School, 2014. Photo by Gina Lundy.
Workshop led by artist Tessa Lynch with pupils from Abbeyhill Primary School, 2016.
MILK Open-Air Café Collective has an open-air café run by MILK, with a seasonally changing menu including hot soup and toasted sandwiches, all freshly prepared using only natural ingredients. Open Monday – Sunday, 10am—4pm.
Open: Tuesday to Sunday October – March 10am—4pm April – September 10am—5pm
Lunchtime Meal Deal Every Wednesday alongside a tour of the current exhibition get a sandwich, toastie or soup and hot or cold drink for £5. For full listings of events, tours, exhibitions and opportunities please visit: www.collectivegallery.net To make a £10 donation text COLL38£10 to 70070
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Satellites Programme is Collective’s development programme for emergent artists and practitioners based in Scotland.
Observers’ Walks is a series of downloadable audio guides specially created by artists to be listened to on Calton Hill.
You can help support innovative visual art in an iconic location.
As we get ready to go on site and create a new kind of City Observatory we have produced a film to give you a glimpse of the project. The film addresses what it is to observe from Calton Hill with contributions from:
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Jennifer Bailey Will I Make a Good Father, Mother, Sister? 9 July – 4 September Preview 8 July 6—8pm
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Petra Bauer & SCOT-PEP, Nothing about us without us, still from workshop, 2016. Courtesy the artists.
Bedwyr Williams Outwith 20 mins Performed by Hilary Lyon
The tracks are available to download from Collective’s website or mp3 players can be borrowed from our reception during opening hours.
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James N Hutchinson, photo of Jessica Duncan's notebook, European Excursion 6, from the archives of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
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
Architect's impression, City Observatory complex plans
Tris Vonna-Michell The Artist and The Gravedigger: After D.O. Hill 17 mins
Ruth Ewan and Astrid Johnston Memorialmania 54 mins Narrated by Tam Dean Burn and Ruth Milne
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During the development of the City Observatory complex Collective has commissioned a series of research based, off-site projects. Two projects led by artists Petra Bauer and James N Hutchinson will be developed over the next year. This programme of commissions will include discussions, screenings and walks, providing opportunities for artists and audiences to engage with our locality and consider new ways for people to work together. Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP Nothing about us without us Central to Petra Bauer’s ongoing collaboration with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker led charity in Edinburgh dedicated to the promotion of sex workers’ rights, is the question: how do you act politically when you cannot be public? The group will continue to listen, share and test ideas about labour rights and filmmaking strategies.
James N Hutchinson A Calton Hill Asterism James’ research project considers different forms of observation and fieldwork. He will concentrate on three points of his asterism, investigating the life, work and travels of historical figures connected to Calton Hill, reflecting ideas of scientific study, amateurism and the international trade of goods and knowledge.
Observers’ Walks
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The layered nature of our site has proved a fertile landscape for both artists and audiences. Through our Observers’ Walks, Constellations and Satellites Programmes we have been working with artists to explore the City Observatory’s heritage and think through the historic, aesthetic and socio-political panorama of our city, enabling insights into the past, present and future. We are excited to be so close to opening the new City Observatory to the public for the first time in its history. Through our programme of exhibitions, events and walks we invite you to join us in this collective site for observation and reflection. Kate Gray, Director
Constellations Programme is a series of off-site artist commissions that aim to bring people together to develop ideas and partnerships.
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Collective is embarking on the next big journey of its history, making a new kind of City Observatory and we invite you to accompany us. Collective began in a small shop unit on Edinburgh’s High Street in 1984, initiated by artists to address their need to see, show and take part in the wider art world. Since then Collective has played a pivotal part in the local and international cultural landscape. We follow artists' ideas, making their vision a reality, presenting international artists in Scotland for the first time. Collective work with and for artists, communities, schools and others to identify and nurture mutuality, exchange and crucially support a cohort of emergent artists based in Scotland every year on our unique development programme. We are proud of our achievements and continue to stay true to our mission, to bring people together around the production and presentation of new visual art.
In 2013 Collective moved to the iconic, but under threat, City Observatory complex on Calton Hill. Currently the second phase of development is underway to make the complex Collective’s permanent new home, offering exciting possibilities for artists and audiences alike.
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Towards a City Observatory
Jennifer Bailey, Untitled, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
Collective is in the final stage of fundraising for our £4m project. Key funders supporting the project include: the Heritage Lottery Fund, the City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Scotland, Edinburgh World Heritage and many other trusts and foundations. By making a donation or contributing to our Buy-aBrick scheme, we ask you to support our vision to save this internationally significant site and allow Collective to continue our work developing and commissioning important new work by local and international artists. To donate £10 text COLL38 £10 to 70070 now. To Buy-ABrick at various levels starting from £25 visit our website or to start a conversation email: lori@collectivegallery.net
Hamish Young 17 September – 20 November Preview 16 September 6—8pm Anastasia Philimonos Associate Producer Anastasia is currently developing a research project, which will be delivered throughout December 2016. For full details of Satellites Programme please visit: www.collectivegallery.net Architect's impression, City Observatory complex plans
Prof John C. Brown Astronomer Royal for Scotland Kate Gray Director, Collective Jude Barber Director, Collective Architecture, project architects Adam Wilkinson Director, Edinburgh World Heritage, project funder Tessa Lynch Artist, commissioned for the City Observatory project Please watch and share at: www.collectivegallery.net/ observatory