The third audio work in the Observers’ Walks series is by Tris Vonna-Michell. Tris has 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. Funded by Outset, Scotland.

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The Artist and The Gravedigger: after D.O.Hill - Observers' Walks 3

Ruth Ewan and Astrid Johnston concentrated on the monuments and geology of Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. Centering around the Political Martyrs’ Monument, this tour reveals the stories behind this glaciated landscape and the rocks we have placed upon it, inviting us to re-engage with the rich diversity of history on Calton Hill. Narrated by Tam Dean Burn and Ruth Milne. 54 mins Funded by Outset, Scotland.

Memorialmania - Observers' Walks 1

Outwith by Bedwyr Williams is the second in the Observers' Walks series. The audio takes the listener through a series of stories created by the artist, which are all set in a local hotel, visible from Calton Hill. Performed by Hilary Lyons. 22 mins Funded by Outset, Scotland.

Outwith - Observers' Walks 2

20 November 2012 | 7 pm. A special one-off event with architectural historian, Kirsten McKee and architect, Malcolm Fraser coinciding with Collective's exhibition, Adaptation. Kirsten completed her PhD thesis on the landscape, politics, architecture, social organisation and culture of Calton Hill and its environs throughout history. This research is informing Collective's future plans. Malcolm is Director and founder of Malcolm Fraser Architects who are currently developing an architectural master plan for the long-term development of the City Observatory on Calton Hill for Collective. Kirsten will draw on her extensive knowledge of the history and architecture of Calton Hill to introduce and contextualise Collective's new location and its varied history. Malcolm will reflect on his previous experience of working with cultural organisations and redeveloping historic buildings to consider how this new location might impact on Collective's identity, and how such a dramatic change could develop the ambition of the programme. Adaptation was a phased, year-long research project initiated by Sarah Tripp with Collective. The project considers the effect that change can have on form and content - which is particularly pertinent at this time when the gallery is in its own process of adaptation. Duration 1 hour 22 minutes.

Adaptation Event | Malcolm Fraser and Kirsten McKee

Saturday 13th October 2012. A discussion with some of the Adaptation practitioners. Banu Cennetoglu, Philippine Hoegen, Dominic Paterson and Sarah Tripp will discuss the project and their work within it. Adaptation is a phased, year-long research project initiated by Sarah Tripp with Collective. The project considers the effect that change can have on form and content – this is particularly pertinent at this a time when Collective is in its own process of adaptation, preparing to move from its current site on Cockburn Street to a new site in the City Observatory on Calton Hill at the end of 2012. 1 hour 30 minutes 51 seconds.

Five Hats - Adaptation

Saturday 30th June 2012 Artist Simon Martin discusses his exhibition at Collective in conversation with Collective's Direction, Kate Gray. 1 hour 20 minutes 33 seconds

Simon Martin in conversation with Kate Gray

Sunday 22 April 2012. Artist Grace Schwindt discusses her exhibition and performance at Collective. In conversation with Steven Cairns. Duration 34 mins 45 secs.

Grace Schwindt in conversation with Steven Cairns

Saturday 3 March, 2012. An informal talk with artist Sun Xun and Collective's Programme Manager, Siobhan Carroll. Translation by Chi Zhang. For his first solo exhibition in Scotland, Sun Xun created a new, wall based work for Collective, exhibited with seven animations. Hangzhou-based Sun Xun studied printmaking at the China Academy of Fine Arts before establishing his own animation studio, Pi, in 2006. Duration: 43:15

Sun Xun Artist’s Talk

Interpretation by Blood Tears & The Moral Highground feat. Jim Colquhoun & Andy Hopkins As one element of his contribution to New Work Scotland Programme 2011 Oliver Braid is working alongside a variety of sound and music makers to produce new audio works in response to a set score. The original score takes the form of an undignified Skype conversation between Oliver Braid and a friend which presents an argument around the concept of expectation. This argument also inspired Oliver’s other contributions to the programme this year, ‘I’ll Look Forward To It: A Visual Essay on Expectation’, his design for the 2011 Christmas Window at Collective and a live music event taking place at Collective on 15th December. PLEASE BE AWARE THIS SOUND PIECE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE

I'll Look forward To It: A Sound of Expectation

As part of Collective's exhibition - Against the Realm of the Absolute, Jesse Jones, a specially selected panel of creative practitioners from diverse fields and backgrounds have been invited to share their practice in the fast-paced environment of the Soapbox. Speakers include Vicky Horne, Ash Reid, Katie Crook, Neil Cooper, Tessa Lynch and Screen Bandita.

Against the Realm of the Absolute Soapbox, July 2011

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Hatherley is a regular contributor to Building Design, New Statesman and New Humanist and has also written for The Guardian and Icon. His first book Militant Modernism was published by 0 Books in 2009 and was described by The Guardian as an "intelligent and passionately argued attempt to 'excavate utopia' from the ruins of modernism". Hatherley presents 'A New Kind of Bleak: Blair's Buildings, before and after the boom'. Unfortunately due to an error with the recording equipment Hatherley's talk is incomplete.

The Performance of Public Art Symposium: Owen Hatherley

Fiona Jardine has a BA in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Currently, Jardine is pursuing a PhD programme of research at the University of Wolverhampton. Fiona presents The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Taking Muriel Spark's novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" as a starting point, Jardine makes links to Arthur Danto's analytical philosophy of art and Jacques Ranciere's pedagogical considerations in "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" and "The Emancipated Spectator" in order to establish a notion of the artwork's rhetorical function in framing experience.

The Performance of Public Art Symposium: Fiona Jardine

Tom Leonard's Outside the Narrative (poems 1965-2009) won the poetry category in the Scottish Book of the Year awards 2010. His essays and political satires have been published as Reports from the Present, and his Places of the Mind is the only modern biography of the 19th century Scottish poet James Thomson. In 2001 he was appointed chair of Creative Writing at Glasgow University alongside Alasdair Gray and James Kelman. Leonard retired in 2009 and maintains a journal including visual work and comment on his website.

The Performance of Public Art Symposium: Tom Leonard

As part of the ongoing project between Collective, Arrow Factory, Beijing and piST///, Istanbul, Collective presents How To Turn The World By Hand - Soapbox, with guests invited across creative worlds to share their ideas in a series of quickfire presentations relating to the themes within the How to Turn the World by Hand exhibition.Speakers include John Mackie, John Vella, Anna Mclauchlan & Rebecca Bell, David Marshall, Alex Frost and I, the idea.

How to Turn the World by Hand - Soapbox May 2011

12/12/10 David Beattie talks about his work, some of which is in Collective's Contemporaries Guest Room. He is joined by Laura White, the artist invited to create Collective's Christmas Window, who discusses both David's work and her own. 36Min 49Secs

David Beattie and Laura White talk

Collective is committed to supporting new visual art through a programme of exhibitions, projects and commissions. Originally established as an artist run organisation in 1984, Collective is an international organisation for the production, research, presentation and distribution of contemporary art and culture with a specific focus on new visual art and practices. We aim to foster, support and debate new work and practices in a way which is of mutual benefit to artists and audiences. We believe that visual art can provide experiences that change the way we look at our world and understand ourselves within it. Collective is a space where people can come to witness, to be challenged, to learn, to experience; a space where adventure is celebrated.

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