Collective: New opportunities

Satellites Programme 2023

Satellites is Collective’s development programme for emerging creative practitioners based in Scotland. In 2023, four creative practitioners at a pivotal point in their practice will be selected to participate in a peer development programme.

The programme includes discussions, workshops, events, retreats and public presentations of new work.

> Find out more and apply now!

Deadline: Monday 8th May, 5pm.

Collective Play Lead Artist

As part of our Collective Play programme, we are excited to invite emerging artists and practitioners with an interest in child-led approaches to play, nature and the outdoors to submit a proposal for our Lead Artist opportunity.

The Lead Artist will devise and deliver one year of Friday Play sessions, as well as one Play Weekend.

> Find out more and apply now!

Deadline: Monday 15th May, 5pm.

Smashing Monuments launch event

COLLECTIVE

Exhibition openingSaturday 25 March

2-3pm: In conversation: Sebastián Díaz Morales and Luciano Piazza
3-4pm: Opportunity to watch Smashing Monuments and enjoy refreshments.

Exhibition dates 25 March – 11 June 2023

Join us for the opening of Smashing Monuments by Sebastián Díaz Morales, from 2–4pm on Saturday 25 March 2023.

Originally comissioned for documenta fifteenSmashing Monuments explores the relationships we have with urban monuments. The film follows five members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa as they walk the streets of Jakarta, engaging in one-sided conversations with the monuments around them.

The afternoon will include an ‘in conversation’ event with Sebastián and fellow artist Luciano Piazza, who has created an accompanying essay for the exhibition.

Sebastián and Luciano will discuss how urban developments, along with the passage of time, impact our everyday relationships with the statues and monuments that populate our cities. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to watch the film and enjoy refreshments. 

Capacity for the artist talk is limited, so please book your free ticket here if you wish to attend.

All welcome from 3.00pm to view the work. 

Access information about our site can be found here.

Smashing Monuments produced with financial support of documenta fifteen, Mondriaan Fonds and The Kingdom of the Netherlands.

New Alison Scott exhibition to open at Collective Gallery

Exhibition

ditto ditto ditto

24.07.21—19.09.21
Open Tue – Sun, 10am—4pm

Free Entry (donations welcome)
No pre-booking required.

A new exhibition by Alison Scott opens this weekend as part of Edinburgh Art Festival

ditto ditto ditto is a cross-media installation in our Hillside space which marks a significant point in Alison’s expansive research project around weather.

Building on two years of archival, performative and collaborative research ditto, ditto, ditto includes new writing, sound, custom wallpaper, moving image and sculptural elements. The exhibition title comes from time spent in the Scottish Meteorological Society’s archives, where Alison examined personal weather diaries and found this phrase often used as short-hand for ‘same again/ likewise/ repeats’.

ditto, ditto, ditto invites viewers to navigate discrete and rich elements, each of which shifts scale: from personal and embodied, to global systems of observation; from analogue and local, to mass-media digital infrastructure.

The exhibition unveils implicit authorities in anecdotal diaristic notations of weather, offering a point of stark contrast between this historic sense of stability and the faltering rhythms of climate breakdown that forms a backdrop to the project.

Pre-booking is not necessary, but please note that you may have to queue to enter the exhibition due to ongoing social distancing measures.


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