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Extra Special People Annual General Meeting Fables of Deconstruction Thursday 27 October 6-8pm

Extra Special People is 3 years old and to mark the anniversary we are taking time to reflect on what we have achieved so far and where we want to go next; as a group and as individuals.  Taking Will Bradley’s story ‘The Village’ as a starting point (please find text attached – it is well worth a read!), Grizedale Arts will lead ESP’s first Annual General Meeting as part of Eastside Project’ Public Evaluation Event and we want to get every single ESP member to come and take part.  The workshop will encourage members to work collectively and develop a reflexive approach to life, art, work and ESP whilst considering where they are, what they do, where they want to be and how they do it. This will be a hands on activity where making is used as a way of visualising thinking and will be a lot of fun as well as useful for everyone taking part.

Away Weekend London Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 October

Scheduled to coincide with Frieze Art Fair this is a great time to visit the capital city and see the best of international contemporary art supported by Eastside Projects contacts and in the very good company of ESP members. This trip is flexible in it’s approach with the option to dip in and out of the group as you wish. With information provided on what is on where and a meal planned to bring people together on Saturday night, you will have the independence to see whatever exhibitions or projects you are most interested in and the opportunity to have some great conversation with ESP’ers.

ESP visit Frieze Art Fair and a host of other galleries, projects and studio groups including: Cell Project Space, Take Courage, Peles Empire, Economy, The Woodmill, Auto Italia, Am Nuden Da, Limazulu and The Old Police Station. For information on how to apply for a travel and accommodation bursary please visit Opportunities.

LUX screening: Frieze Film, and First Thursday Social Thursday 6 October Eastside Projects

Frieze Film
Thursday 6 October, 7 – 9pm

Every year since 2005 Frieze Foundation has commissioned a series of new short films (including several co-commissioned with LUX and the ICO for the Artists Cinema project). The commissions have included work by an extraordinary range of leading contemporary artists, from those who had never worked with film before through to established filmmakers. The films have been premiered at Frieze Art Fair in London, and subsequently screened at cinemas and festivals around the world. The Frieze Film touring programme brings together a selection of these commissions for the first time. From Cannes Palme d’Or- winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s The Anthem (2006), a filmic ‘blessing’ for the cinema in which it appears, to Linder’s carnivalesque Forgetful Green (2010), it offers a unique snapshot of contemporary approaches to the moving image.

The programme includes work by Miguel Calderón, Bonnie Camplin, Jess Flood-Paddock, Linder, Shahryar Nashat, Elizabeth Price, Wilhelm Sasnal, Stephen Sutcliffe and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The films were commissioned by the Frieze Foundation curators, Polly Staple in 2005 and 2006, Neville Wakefield in 2007 and Sarah McCrory in 2010. In 2005 and 2006, the films were co-commissioned with LUX and the ICO for the Artists Cinema project.

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First Thursday Social
Thursday 6 October
6-7pm

On the first Thursday of each month come along for a pre Salon social. A perfect time to catch up on news and chance to put names to faces.

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To attend SALON events join ESP (£60 per year/ £5 per month) by contacting: info@extraspecialpeople.org

Or pay £4 (£2) on the door per session

Self Assembly 2: Pitching Event Thursday 29 September 6.30-8pm Eastside Projects

ESP members are invited to pitch ideas for Self Assembly Salon events to the rest of the group over a bowl of soup at this informal, social event. Pitches might be for a one-off event or a series of Salons. If your idea is successful you will be supported by ESP and Eastside Projects as you organise and host your event/s, giving you the opportunity to start conversations, make connections, hear about particular aspects of practice or explore ideas that you are interested in. Successful pitches from Self Assembly 1 included Curating the Home (Lauren Davies) and Empty Orchestra (Georgie Park and Samuel Rodgers) To book a ‘pitch’ or find out more email info@extraspecialpeople.org

Quiz Night at Eastside Projects Thursday 22 September

Curators’ Introduction: William Pope. L Thursday 15 September 6.30-8pm Eastside Projects

EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE SALON
CURATORS’ INTRODUCTION: WILLIAM POPE. L, THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 6.30-8PM
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Gavin Wade, director of Eastside Projects and William Pope. L introduce his new three screen video commission, ‘Child’ at this exclusive preview event.
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Don’t Forget:
Opening: William Pope. L
Friday 16 September
6.30-9pm
Eastside Projects

Exhaustion and Exuberance Saturday 10 September 12-9pm Eastside Projects

Exhaustion & Exuberance

Saturday 10 September

12-9pm

Eastside Projects

Free_ Public_Event

Exhaustion & Exuberance is a day-long event on Saturday 10 September, 12-9pm, that brings innovative artists and groups to Eastside Projects with the invitation to share knowledge and exchange ideas about notions of success and survival. When precarious living has become the norm, the day aims to initiate conversation and debate that mines the past and present, for possible solutions and resilient models for art production and dissemination in the 21st century.

Drop in and make new connections during the informal activity taking place in the main gallery. Buy the fantastic new publication Soon All Your Neighbours Will Be Artists. Attend the discussion for ideas and debate to get your mind buzzing. Hang out at the screening event in the evening.
Image courtesy: An Endless Supply

Programme:
_12pm_Platform

A series of actions, productions and minglings throughout the day from: Outpost (Norwich), Other Asias (London), Institute for Boundary Interactions (Nottingham), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), Tactile Bosch (Cardiff), Aid & Abet (Cambridge), Ania Bas Plus: The Lombard Method’s infamous falafel stand, BAZ, Grand Union, An Endless Supply

_1pm_Publication Launch
Soon All Your Neighbours Will Be Artists

Featuring the work of: Chris Barr, Ellen Bell, Ross Birrell & David Harding, Olaf Breuning, Andrew Crawford White, Michael Dean, Carwyn Evans, S Mark Gubb, Folke Koebberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Low Profile, Heather & Ivan Morison, Jonathan Mosley & Sophie Warren with Can Altay, random people, Emily Speed

Eds: An Endless Supply, Chloe Brooks, Clare Thornton, CJ Mahony, David Kefford, Samuel Hasler, Melissa Hinkin, Jim O’Raw

_2pm_Discussion: Exhaustion & Exuberance, A (Re)negotiation

Taking the essay Exhaustion & Exuberance: Ways to defy the pressure to perform by Jan Verwoert (written for Sheffield 08: Yes, No and Other Options), as a starting point for thinking, and framed by major cuts to public funding on the arts, this discussion invites S. Mark Gubb & Eva Weinmayr chaired by Dr Kataryna Kosmala to unpick the themes of the text and offer personal insight and concrete examples of success and survival in relation to their research and projects.

Questions:
What are precarious conditions and how can you resist them?
When do you start considering your practice as your work?
Does the arts reliance on free labour set a false standard of integrity?
Does the pressure to perform mitigate the possibility of failure?
Does the production of artwork need to be redefined given the reduction in support from institutions?
What would it mean to resist the need to perform?
Are the forms of agency that we commonly associate with resistance not modes of high performance themselves?

_6pm_Annexinema screening

Annexinema is a peripatetic, not-for-profit arts organization, which focuses on the screening and performance of visionary and experimental artists’ work in sound and the moving image.

They are interested in creating spaces for play and activity outside of traditional institutional (art) structures, in finding common ground between potential audiences and communities, and in the idea of cinema as a social phenomenon. They are interested in nurturing collaboration and cross-pollination between art-related practices, incorporating screenings, installations, performances and live music.

Curators Talk: Raimundas Malasauskas Thursday 4 August 6.30-8pm Eastside Projects

Raimundas Malasauskas is a curator and a writer whose work evolves around contemporary phenomena, persons, biographies and stories, addressing the parallel worlds of science, media, film, literature and mass culture.

Exhibition Opportunity at Eastside Projects

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EXHIBITION

9 MARCH – 5 MAY 2012

Building on the Success of Gene George Earle, Joanne Masding and Rebecca Bibby’s show in 2010, Eastside Projects is offering ESP members the opportunity to make an exhibition for the second gallery to open on 9 March 2012.

This is a significant chance to be part of the gallery programme and proposals are sought for solo exhibitions, two or three person shows or curated projects. The budget available for the exhibition is £1500 and the selected member/s will be supported as they develop their project by Gavin Wade and other gallery staff through a series of meetings and studio visits.

Please note this opportunity is only open to ESP members.

Extra Special People (ESP) is Eastside Projects’ Associate Membership Scheme, which supports the development of work, ideas, connections and careers and programmes events for artists, writers, curators and those with a more general interest in contemporary art. Membership costs £5 per month / £60 per year. See www.extraspecialpeople.org for further information and the full programme.

Eastside Projects is an artist run space as public gallery see www.eastsideprojects.org

To apply please send:

10 digital images / short showreel & image / information list

Proposal (500 words max)

Statement (300 words max)

Current CV

By email to: submissions@eastsideprojects.org

By mail to: ESP Exhibition, Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Schedule:

31 August: Closing Date for applications

September: Studio visits / meetings with short-listed members

1 October: Final selection will be announced

Opening Moves – Graduate Surgeries at Eastside Projects

Led by practising artists based in the city these free 1-2-1 sessions offer
individual support and advice to recent graduates. To book a slot email
info@extraspecialpeople.org.

Extra Special People (ESP) is Eastside Projects’ associate membership
scheme. It supports the development of work, ideas, connections and careers
and programmes events for artists, writers, curators and those with a more
general interest in contemporary art. Membership costs £5 per month / £60
per year, or you can pay on the door for individual salon events. For
information on joining contact info@extraspecialpeople.org and for
programme details visit www.extraspecialpeople.org