C O L L E C T I V E G A L L E R Y

Site: 6-8 Market street, next to The City Art Centre.

Dates: 10 August - 12 September

Commissioned re-presentation of Mike Nelson's The Pumpkin Palace, a work using a 1954 GMC transit bus. The bus has been transported from the CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, where it was originally commissioned, to be developed and re-presented by the artist in Edinburgh for the festival.
British artist Mike Nelson is known for his meticulously detailed installations, many of which simulate the run-down habitats of the stateless or subversive, their absence articulated by architectural space and symbolically charged props. The Pumpkin Palace provocatively reminds us of the casualties of war, both abroad and at home, and the present tensions that exist between distinct and often oppositional forces.
selected writing: The List 5-12 Aug issue 500

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Collective invited Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi to Scotland, to be Artist in Residence to Festival City, (unofficial) during the Edinburgh Festival.
During his residency in Edinburgh, Perjovschi will act as a critical observer, mingling with writers, performers and audiences; picking up on the cultural debates and setting them within a broader context through his drawings. The drawings took two forms - display panels (replicating the old style communist factory news walls) and a free newspaper. Perjovschi produced work upon the boards 'every day, morning, evening a new comment (drawing) will be on view. Every gossip I hear or every new turn of events can be immediately displayed.'

'No Vacancies' the free newspaper developed while resident in Edinburgh is still available from the gallery while stocks last.

In a documentary style, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y tells the story of aircraft hijacking and its relationship with the global media. Grimonprez cross references the novels of Don Delillo: Mao II and White Noise – 'writers don’t change the world terrorists do', with the upbeat disco sounds of the seventies such as Van McCoy. TV adverts juxtaposed with on the spot interviews with freed hostages, and dramatic and tragic images of explosions, all in a channel-hopping style. Grimonprez produces a stunningly powerful work that merges criticism and entertainment without being laboured or academic.

Collective commissioned Edinburgh based artist Jenny Hogarth to produce a new performance work to be enacted on the slopes of Midlothian Ski Centre, Europes largest dry ski slope. Collaborating with skiers, musicians and a choreographer to put on this unique event which played on artificiality at the height of the capital's tourist period.
Pentland Rising redrafted the histories of parades neglected by the mass spectacles of the Military Tattoo and Festival Fireworks. The bourgeois pastime of skiing was employed wryly to stage a series of make-shift processions revisiting events such as the bloody Covenanting battle at Rullion Green in 1666 and Sir Walter Scott’s George IV pagent of tartanalia.
Jenny Hogarth was the successful recipient of the Collective Gallery’s Scottish Artist's Open Commission Award.
Duration: approx 20 mins.

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To coincide with her Project Room exhibition at the gallery, Hero of Two the Worlds, Kate Owens was commissioned by the Collective to produce a new off-site installation. provoke divine aspirations from over 1000 bottles of fizzy juice. Transforming the light as it filters through the artificially coloured cocktail of Benzoates, Sweeteners and Mixed Carotenes, the bottles of juice function as a stained glass window. The presentation of an over-excited wine collector, a heady blend of Islamigoth ecclesiastic design, Gates of Ades seduces and repulses, raising a glass of fizz to Albers and Warhol in a vision of admonition.