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NOW

27 April 2017

NOW is the first in a series of exhibitions which brings together contemporary art from Scotland with works by leading international artists. Over the next three years, through a series of six exhibitions, NOW will explore and celebrate the role of artists in society and the alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world through their work.

The centerpiece of the first show is Nathan Coley’s The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, Edinburgh, 2004. This iconic work features 286 sculptures which depict every place of worship listed in the 2004 edition of the Edinburgh Yellow Pages directory, offering a snapshot of the city at a particular moment in time through its places of religious meeting.

A key theme running through the exhibition is place and its relationship to time. Peter Doig’s imagined landscape is shown with Jock McFadyen’s real landscape of Carlton Hill recalled from memory. Rivane Neuenschwander’s Colheita Harvest 2013-2014 is a portrait of a London community through an installation of 365 shopping lists collected from supermarkets.

Performance Documents 1980-1987/2013 by Mona Hatoum presents rare archival material documenting the actions and performances she produced during the 1980s. And The Acrobat c.1982 by Peter Horobin, documents performances and interventions he did whilst on a month-long residency in Kassel under the persona of The Acrobat.

Joining us to discuss the works on show will be the curators of the exhibition, Lucy Askew and Julie-Ann Delaney.

 

Torsten Lauschmann

23 June 2010 at 6pm

This month we will be revisiting the Collective Gallery to view Patchwork Cinema, a new body of work by Torsten Lauschmann which deconstructs the experience of time and cinema through the projected image.

As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Germany and based in Glasgow, Lauschmann’s work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation.

In Patchwork Cinema, Compilation 1, Lauschmann questions the formalised cinema experience and highlights the pivotal point in early cinema when film presentation was not prescribed in the same way. This work is an alternative cinema experience with an assemblage of found film footage with the addition of sound and lighting effects which have been programmed to trigger a further reimagining of how we view film.

Prior to entering Patchwork Cinema, visitors can view Digital Clock (Growing Zeros) 2010 consisting of a looped 24-hour projection of a digital clock with the red numerals changed manually by visible hands. This less formal digital time matches correct time local time. We will also be able to see Lauschmanns experiment with pre-cinema optics which transforms one of Collectives gallery spaces into a camera obscura.