AN art exhibition is welcoming audiences into a functioning casino, complete with hacked fruit machines, in a critique of the wellness industry.
Artworks on display at Collective’s Acts of Observation at Edinburgh’s City Observatory, by artists and writers Ana Garcia Jacome, Jeda Pearl Lewis, Abi Palmer and Simon Yuill, will directly question, contextualise and challenge institutional language and spaces, and how disability is represented.
The artists will present a diverse range of works including film, interactive installation, writing and architectural interventions.
Palmer’s interactive casino installation will invite users to “reconsider their position in life”, with absurdist poetic diagnoses delivered “by the spirit of Elvis reimagined as a medical practitioner” in an exploration of chance and ritual.
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