Apr — Jun 2015 Guide Exhibitions/Events/Walks/Off-Site/Open-Air Café
Slavs and Tatars Lektor
Admission Free 25.04.15 – 12.07.15
Slavs and Tatars, Hung and Tart (acacia), 2014, hand blown glass. Courtesy of the artists.
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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 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.
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Observers’ Walks is a series of downloadable audio guides specially created by artists to be listened to on Calton Hill.
Collective Gallery City Observatory | City Dome 38 Calton Hill, Edinburgh EH7 5AA
Collective is in the final stage of fundraising to open up the entire City Observatory site to visitors for the first time.
Thomas Aitchison, digitally filtered image, 2015, jpg. Courtesy of the artist.
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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.
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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.
The City Observatory was the birthplace of astronomy and timekeeping in Edinburgh. It was designed by William Henry Playfair in 1818 and 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.
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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.
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Thomas Aitchison Drag a File Here 25 April – 14 June Preview 24 April | 6-8pm Thomas Aitchison has developed a new series of paintings and an installation titled Drag a File Here, as part of Satellites Programme 2015. The small-scale, delicately painted works stem from a host of imagery including landscapes, food and corporate insignia. Employing a filterlike effect to the images and painting on dustsheets dotted with marks from previous use, Thomas explores the frictions between ground and image, systematic and accidental mark making. Using materials and tools that commonly support but are edited out of exhibition design Drag a File Here brings the process and materiality of the ‘backstage’ to the fore.
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Slavs and Tatars, Hung and Tart (acacia), 2014, hand blown glass. Courtesy of the artists.
Satellites Programme is Collective’s development Programme for emergent artists and practitioners based in Scotland.
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Mirrors for Princes, a new publication by Slavs and Tatars and edited by Anthony Downey, has been produced as part of the co-commission. A launch event will take place at Collective during the exhibition.
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Lektor is a co-commission with Kunsthalle Zurich, NYU Abu Dhabi, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Blaffer Art Gallery, the University of Houston.
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Slavs and Tatars Lektor 25 April – 12 July Preview 24 April | 6-8pm Lektor, by artist collective Slavs and Tatars, is part of a new body of work exploring Mirror for Princes – a medieval form of advice literature intended for future rulers. Locating this literature in relation to contemporary spin-doctoring and society’s interest in selfhelp books, the exhibition centres on a multi-channel audio installation, featuring excerpts from an influential 11th century Turkic Mirror for Princes, Kutadgu Bilig (Wisdom of Royal Glory). The original Uighur text, which offers advice on the power and pitfalls of the tongue, is played alongside translations into Turkish, German, Polish, Arabic and Scottish Gaelic. Drawing on the ‘Gavrilov’ voice-over technique, the work creates a disruptive experience, touching on issues of legibility and authenticity.
Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, installation, lecture-performances and print media is often focussed on language and its conditions of translation, enactment and resonance.
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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
Malcolm Fraser Architects have developed plans for the site and together, we will conserve and reinstate the original Playfair designs and create a new-build gallery space, learning spaces and an eatery with amazing views on the site. We have support for the capital redevelopment project from The City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh World Heritage, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland Lottery and The Architectural Heritage Fund among others. We are on track with fundraising but we still need help to make sure the new complex is fully open to the public in 2016.
Events Ways to Help You can help to secure the future of this site to be a new kind of City Observatory for Edinburgh. Corporate and individual giving options will be launched on the website on 18th April. Please get in touch with our Capital Project Co-ordinator and Fundraiser, Lori Anderson if you would like more information. TO DONATE BY TEXT: You can give £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10. Example: text COLL38 £10 to 70070. 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
All events are free unless stated. To book and for further details please visit www.collectivegallery.net Georgia Horgan Magic Kills Industry 11 April | 6pm Magic Kills Industry is a performance by Georgia Horgan about witchcraft, women, textiles, machinery and technology. It is the last in a series of events developed by Georgia for Machine Room, a research project that explores the relationship between witch hunting and the proliferation of the textile industry in Scotland. Artlink Opening Lines Performance Siriol Joyner and Phil Smith Calton Hill Constellations 30 March – 4 April Calton Hill Constellations integrates performance with description for sighted, partially sighted and blind audiences. It has been devised by Artlink in association with Collective, as a part of the Opening Lines Programme. Calton Hill Constellations is a performance developed by artist and choreographer Siriol Joyner and writer and mythogeographer Phil Smith with participants from Artlink and The Royal National Institute for the Blind. The group will explore and respond to the site of the City Observatory, a place where different forms of knowledge, observation and sensory experience collide.
A public performance of Calton Hill Constellations will take place on Saturday 4 April. See investigatecreate.co.uk/ event/calton-hill-constellations/ for more details and to book. 2015 Intensive Programme Notation, improvisation and score 22 June – 26 June This five day intensive programme will investigate the ways in which artists are using techniques of notation and improvisation to develop new possibilities when working with others. The week will include screenings, workshops and seminars, providing a small group with the opportunity for an in depth investigation. This programme will be led by LUX Scotland and Collective. It will include contributions from Beatrice Gibson, Petra Bauer, and Isla Leaver-Yap among others. Please visit our website for further details and prices. The programme will use Beatrice Gibson’s new film work Crippled Symmetries as a background. Crippled Symmetries is a new co-commission between Collective, LUX and Film London and will be presented at Collective as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015.