The Garage presents… at VIVID

THE GARAGE PRESENTS… (12 November – 09 December 2011)

VIVID’s 2011 programme draws to a close with a season of events embracing music, live arts, film, and performance.

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PROGRAMME:
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SAT 12 NOV | 9PM | BANG BANG

BANG BANG is the final in a trilogy of explosive art-parties-cum-club-nights curated by Trevor Pitt and played out at VIVID.

BANG BANG invites some of the colourful characters from the Sleeve Notes demimonde to vamp the tired club-night formula through social, sartorial and artistic rebellion. Join us on Saturday 12 November for a night of outlandish revelry.

DJ sets by: mini moderns // Brian Duffy (Modified Toy Orchestra) // Mazzy (Chicks Dig Jerks) // THIS IS TMRW. Experimental performance installations: ‘Re-make/ Re-model’ – Joey Vivo and Roseanna Velin // ‘Pop is Dead’ – Vincent Gould // ‘99 Red Balloons’ – John Napier

BANG! BANG! concludes Trevor Pitt’s Sleeve Notes project at VIVID, which spawned the unforgettable Cum Clubbing and Get Bent!

Admission £5. Advance tickets available from ticketsellers.co.uk

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SAT 19 NOV | 4-10 PM | GLI.TC/H

Following the success of its Chicago counterpart, GLI.TC/H Birmingham welcomes an international host of artists working with realtime audio and video to misuse and abuse computer hardware and software.

Can the electronic stutters, crashes, errors and glitches that we encounter with technology in our day-to-day lives be considered beautiful in their own right?

View Rosa Menkman\’s \’Radio Dada\’ here

This programme of video work showcases contemporary artists who exploit and explore the imperfections hidden in the signal/ data structures of moving image technology to striking effect.

Admission free.

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FRI 02 DEC | 8PM | Turbulence DVD Launch Party

Join the cast and crew of Turbulence, a new film shot in Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds, for a special party featuring screenings, live music and DJs.

View Turbulence trailer here

When a failing music venue staffed by idiots looks set to close, manager Keith launches a last ditch Battle of the Bands competition. More by accident than by design, musical genius is unleashed by a rapping transvestite, some precocious indie rockers and a barmaid with a golden voice, who together save the world they love.

Doors open at 8pm and there will be live sets from The Scholars and legendary DJ Russell Shumway aka Shumdog Millionaire. The Turbulence DVD will be available on the night for a mere £5.

Admission £5 on the door. Advance tickets available from ticketsellers.co.uk

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FRI 09 DEC | 6-8PM | AYO & ONI OSHODI’S ZINE LAUNCH PARTY

In Association with… artists Ayo and Oni Oshodi launch their new zine, Slain by the Cruel Blade of Post-Modernity. The evening includes performance, spicy mulled wine and a DJ set by They Are Here.

Admission £3 on the door.

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VIVID | 140 HEATH MILL LANE | BIRMINGHAM | B9 4AR
T: 0121 766 7876 | E: info@vivid.org.uk | http://www.vivid.org.uk

VIVID exhibition: CRASH (24 Sep – 29 Oct)

CRASH | 24 September – 29 October 2011

VIVID  presents CRASH, an experimental season of sonics, moving image, installation and construction stimulated by the vision of J.G. Ballard.

Artists include: Dan Tassell, Kibwe Tavares & Chris J Lees (Factory Fifteen), Mr. Underwood, Mark Essen, and Contingent of the First Response feat. Nic Bullen, Gene-George Earl, Sarah Farmer, Adrian Lee, Relmic Statute, and Cathy Wade. 

 

Kibwe Tavares. Robots of Brixton, 2011. Image courtesy the artist.

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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME:
Sat 24 Sep – Sat 29 Oct | open Thu-Sat, 12-5pm | admission free
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In Kibwe Tavares’s Robots of Brixton London’s new robot workforce – built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do – has undergone a population explosion, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline. The film follows a populace hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981 and the summer of 2011.

Resonant of the visions of Ridley Scott, China Mieville and JG Ballard, Dan Tassell’s The Battersea Experiment imagines the crumbing shell of Battersea power station enclosing an arcadian world where all is not quite as it seems.  

Chris J. Lees Funland, is a sinister re-imagining of a sentient Trocadero Centre  resculpting the world at will, playing with visions of apocalyptic futures, robot cats and giant crab monsters.

Artist Mark Essen takes George Berkeley’s metaphysical theory of subjective idealism as a starting point for his installation Concrete Radio. Filmed around Wysing in Cambridgeshire, Archangel George presents the traces of human disruption in an abandoned and deserted landscape.

Contingent of the First Response is a temporal group of protagonists (Nic Bullen, Gene-George Earle, Sarah Farmer, Adrian Lee, Relmic Statute,Cathy Wade) that shifts and adapts in response to common concerns. Ballard is the black mirror that The Contingent are looking into, reflecting back a space in which they make new connections. The group collage, cut and conflate the beauty, horror and sense of overlapping banality that runs through Ballard, from Cathy Wade’s ‘He Hit Me…’ echoing the song made famous by The Crystals to Gene-George Earle’s visceral video take on The Atrocity Exhibition, described, as Ballard is quoted as describing his own work, a ‘psychotic hymn’. Alongside this, Adrian Lee examines the commercial cultural trappings which form the background noise to our daily lives and Nicholas Bullen, founding member of the extreme music group Napalm Death reappropriates Brutalist imageryf rom Cronenberg’s Stereo alongside Concrete Music, engaging with the psychological effects of architecture, environment and sound.

Crash also sees a VIVID and Capsule co-commission for the exhibition and 2011 Supersonic Festival from Mr.Underwood featuring a special “Crash EP”, fragments of which are contained in the immediate area, the decayed and abandoned spaces of Birmingham’s Digbeth backstreets.  Plug yourself in to the city.

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EVENTS PROGRAMME:
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PREVIEW: Friday 23 September | 6-10pm | admission free
Join VIVID  for the launch of CRASH.  The evening will include a special tour with Mr. Underwood and J.G. Ballard’s mix tape.

FILM: Wednesday 28 September | 7-10pm | £2
The Neighbourhood Watch presents its usual mixed-bag of short film submissions, only this time followed by a special screening in response to VIVID’s CRASH exhibition.

PERFORMANCE: Saturday 22 October | 12-5pm | admission free
Contingent of the First Response artists present a series of performance and presentations in response to CRASH. The Event and Supersonic Festival also take place this weekend.

FILM: Thursday 27 October | 8:15pm | £4/3 @ Birmingham Library Theatre 
Birmingham International Film Society presents a a special screening in response to VIVID’s CRASH exhibition. 

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VIVID | 140 HEATH MILL LANE | BIRMINGHAM | B9 4AR
T: 0121 766 7876 | E: info@vivid.org.uk | http://www.vivid.org.uk | Click here for directions

VIVID gratefully acknowledges support from Arts Council England and The Bond Company.

The Garage Presents… at VIVID

THE GARAGE PRESENTS… (27 July – 31 August 2011)

The Garage presents… is a new strand of one off events at VIVID embracing music, live arts, installation, performance and films. Join us for a jam packed summer season including an open submission film night, experimental electronic music, and short films from Morocco. 

PROGRAMME:

WED 27 JUL | 7-10PM | £2 on the door
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH #2
 
On the last Wednesday of each month, VIVID hosts The Neighbourhood Watch, an open submission film night devised and developed by The Neighbourhood.

With a ‘Neighbourhood Watch under their belts, riotous applause and praise from contributors and visitors alike, and time spent discussing how they can make the next one even better, The Neighbourhood Watch returns to VIVID on Wednesday 27 July 2011, 7pm.

Unlike most screening nights The Neighbourhood will accept films completely blind. They’ve formulated a set of submission guidelines to give the night a little structure however given their love for bending and breaking rules, stress that these are but guidelines. Click here to view.

The Neighbourhood Watch #3 takes place at VIVID on Wednesday 31 August, 7pm. 

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FRI 29 JUL | 12PM – LATE | £5 (after 6PM)
SOUNDkitchen SONICpicnic

An excting feast of eclectic and experimental electronic flavours – expect performance, talks, and screenings from the SOUNDkitchen collective and friends.

Follow link for audio taster: \’Baby is Not\’ by Rodrigo Constanzo

With their SONICpicnic hamper almost packed, SOUNDkitchen have some tasty treats in store including their famous signature dish STONEsoup which combines the work of Birmingham composers and sound artists with film by Ross Millar. SONICpicnic also plays host to the UK premiere screening of Modulate‘s new work White, a delicate study in audio responsive movement, light and dark.

What’s more, ChangeKitchen will be dishing up delicious food to eat alongside the sonic feast. Leave the office, bin the sandwich and join SOUNDkitchen at VIVID for homecooked nosh and great entertainment!

Tickets are £5 after 6pm and available here.

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WED 24 AUG | 7-10PM | £3 on the door
MOROCCAN FILM NIGHT

Kino 10 presents a one-off short film night showcasing the best of Moroccan filmmaking including documentary, experimental film and discussion.

Watch film here: Creatruction (dir. Simohammed Fettaka)

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VIVID | 140 HEATH MILL LANE | BIRMINGHAM | B9 4AR
T: 0121 766 7876 | E: info@vivid.org.uk | http://www.vivid.org.uk

Open submission film night at VIVID

Wednesday 29 June 2011 | 7pm | admission £2
The Garage presents… THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

On the last Wednesday of each month, The Garage presents… The Neighbourhood Watch, an open submission film night devised and developed by The Neighbourhood.

Unlike most screening nights The Neighbourhood will accept films completely blind. Due to the revolutionary nature of this epic film fantasia, they’ve formulated a set of eight (not ten) ‘The Neighbourhood Watch’ commandments. Click here for more information.

The first ‘Neighbourhood Watch takes place on Wednesday 29 June, 7-10pm, at VIVID and is repeated on the final Wednesday of each month (Wed 27 July, Wed 31 Aug, submission calls to follow). Admission is charged at £2 and includes popcorn and a drink. Feel free to bring your own refreshments (and a bottle opener).

The Neighbourhood Watch is presented as part of THE GARAGE PRESENTS… a brand new strand of one off events at VIVID embracing music, live arts, installation, performance, digital and sonic media.

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VIVID | 140 Heath Mill Lane | Digbeth | Birmingham | B9 4AR
T: 0121 766 7876 | E: info@vivid.org.uk | www.vivid.org.uk

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