Category : eastside projects

Eastside Projects, Jim Howieson: Sports Hall Sessions, Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm

Jim Howieson: Sports Hall Sessions
8 June – 3 August 2013
Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Jim Howieson’s ongoing Sports Hall Sessions series, which began in 2010, involves the artist performing spatial exercises in various public sports halls. This process sees him engaging with the objects and material to hand by forming sculptural assemblages, whilst responding to the architectural framework of each hall. These activities are also guided by strict time constraints set by the rental periods. On the one hand these sessions have become a convenient mode of studio practice for the artist (the large halls are available to rent by the hour and all equipment is easily accessed). On the other it has been a significant shift in perspective to deal with sculpture as a temporal, publicly situated, performance based activity.

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Eastside Projects, Gunilla Klingberg: Parallelareal Variable, Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm

Gunilla Klingberg: Parallelareal Variable
8 June – 3 August 2013
Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Gunilla Klingberg’s ‘Parallelareal Variable’ reveals a powerful set of electro-magnetic bands of energy forming Eastside Projects. Klingberg’s new site specific installation is the Stockholm based artist’s first solo show in the UK for over a decade and continues her cosmic kaleidoscopic feedback loops of spiritual, capitalist and consumer patterns as visual machines.

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Puppet Assembly, Saturday 18 May 12–5pm

Puppet Assembly
Saturday 18 May 12–5pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

For the final day of ‘Puppet Show’ puppets and puppeteers, art-related or otherwise, are invited to come to Eastside Projects to inhabit the gallery, meet the residents and join the revolution. This ad-hoc afternoon of marionette mayhem will combine ‘open mike’ performance slots with informal space for puppets to be themselves.

During the afternoon there will be two performances, at 1pm and 3pm, of ‘Nuclear Family (Three Tragedies and a Satire) written by Heather and Ivan Morison and performed by Owen Davies.

Between these times we will have a number of fifteen minute ‘open mike’ slots for puppets and puppeteers to perform within the gallery. If you would like to book a slot please email maya@eastsideprojects.org.

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Nuclear Family (three Tragedies And A Satire), Friday 17 May, 7pm and Saturday 18 May 1pm & 3pm

Nuclear Family (three Tragedies And A Satire)
Friday 17 May, 7pm
Saturday 18 May 1pm and 3pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

The first preview performances of a new group of plays written by Heather and Ivan Morison for Mr Clevver, a traveling sculptural artwork in the form of a puppet theatre. An evolving work about lives lived at the edges of society, Mr Clevver has travelled from Tasmania in a 1960s agricultural truck drawing a hand-built box office. Mr Clevver is based on the travelling puppet shows from the unsettling novel, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, that is set in a post-nuclear holocaust Kent. Owen Davies will perform Nuclear Family before Mr Clevver takes a wandering tour around the remote settlements of Wales this summer.

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Art After Hours, Friday 17 May, 5—9.30pm

Art After Hours
Friday 17 May, 5—9.30pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Digbeth is home to a growing number of galleries, art projects, studio groups and artists. On Friday 17 June spend the evening exploring this intriguing part of the city as many of the spaces, organisations and groups based there open their doors for the first ‘Art After Hours’ event.

Eastside Projects will open from 6.30–8pm with a performance of ‘Nuclear Family (Three Tragedies and a Satire)’ at 7pm.

Start your evening at The Lombard Method and MSFAC who will be open from 6pm and then wander over to Eastside Projects for Mr Clevver’s performance before walking round the corner to Vivid Projects, Vinyl and Stryx on Fazeley Street ending your evening at Grand Union which will be open to 9.30pm.

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Art Bus, Thursday 16 May, 5–9pm

Art Bus
Thursday 16 May, 5–9pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Now celebrating its 10th year the Art Bus now travels between six of the city’s
leading galleries. With free entry at each of the participating venues; the Barber
Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Eastside Projects, Ikon
Gallery, mac birmingham, and the RBSA Gallery it’s a great way to see the range of
visual art on offer in the city.

Due to popular demand, this year’s route has changed to maximise the enjoyment
of visitors. Each bus route will take in three of the galleries, with Ikon Gallery in
Brindley Place acting as the central ‘depot’ for the evening.

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Bill Drummond at the Library of Birmingham

Volume: Birmingham’s Art, Book and Print Fair, 5-7 December 2013 has been created as a unique event for the Library of Birmingham Discovery Season by Capsule. Working with Writing West Midlands, Birmingham Zine Festival, An Endless Supply, The Baskerville Society, Grand Union and Eastside Projects, the event will celebrate the very best in independent publishing. Volume will open with a keynote speech from artist, musician and writer, Bill Drummond.

“Scottish artist Bill Drummond (1953) has used various media in his practice including actions, music and words. His actions too numerous to list, some more infamous than others; his music from the multi million selling KLF to the choral music of The17; the words have accumulated into a pile of books. His work of the last twelve years is catalogued at www.penkilnburn.com.”

Drummond’s World Tour Retrospective ‘Bill Drummond: 25 Paintings’ starts at Eastside Projects, Birmingham in March 2014.

Eastside Projects, Exhibition Launch, ‘Karl Nawrot: Mind Walk #I’ Friday 19 April, 6–8pm

Exhibition Launch
‘Karl Nawrot: Mind Walk #I’
Friday 19 April, 6–8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Please join us for the launch of ‘Mind Walk #1’, an exhibition by Seoul based artist and designer Karl Nawrot.

The exhibition reveals Nawrot’s aesthetic sensibility as a curious union of the macabre and the childlike, offering an overview of his practice through a dense presentation of crude monochrome prints. These include representations of various simple models which in some cases exist as works in themselves: for example in an architectural structure derived from Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino House the minimal staircase is replaced by a cave. Other images show models made as tools: primitive stencils and other devices used in the production of drawings or typefaces. Graphics made with these tools are displayed in various stages of completion.

‘Puppet Show’, ‘Karl Nawrot: Mind Walk #I’ and ‘Flatfile: Continuations’ continue until 18 May.

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Sculpture and Ventriloquism, Tuesday 7 May, 6.30–8pm

Sculpture and Ventriloquism
A talk by Jon Wood
Tuesday 7 May, 6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

In this talk Jon Wood will look at sculptures that are evocative of ‘voice throwing’, considering the ways in which ventriloquism figures as a way of understanding how artists have used real (and imaginary) sound to animate their work.

Dr Jon Wood is Research Curator at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds where he coordinates the academic research programme and curates exhibitions. He specialises in twentieth-century and contemporary sculpture, with a particular and ongoing research interest in the artist’s studio. His writings have been recently reprinted in The Studio Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and The Studio (MIT/Whitechapel, 2012). He is the HMI editor of the ‘Subject/Object’ series and one of the editors of Sculpture in Twentieth-Century Britain (2003). Recent publications include: Modern Sculpture Reader (with Alex Potts and David Hulks) (HMI 2007, and Getty 2012), United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s (2011), a new edition of Ede’s Savage Messiah (with Barassi and Silber) (2011) and Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture, and Performance (with Aura Satz) (2009).

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Group Occupation II… Introducing, Thursday 2 May, 6.30–8.30

Group Occupation II… Introducing
Thursday 2 May, 6.30-8.30
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

This year six ESP members have been selected by ESP and The New Art Gallery Walsall (TNAGW) to undertake six-week residencies to develop new research and work in two groups in the Artists’ Studio at TNAGW from May to September.

The artists and writers selected for Group Occupation II residencies are:
Group 1: Meghan Allbright, Beth Bramich & Andrew Lacon
Group 2: Carruthers & Cresswell, Chris Clinton & Anna Falcini
For more information on their work visit here

For this event the selected practitioners will introduce their work through a short presentation before beginning their group residency. This evening is designed as an informal starting point for group discussion and a public introduction to the work of six artists and writers. Following the presentations we will continue conversations over drinks in the gallery.

During each residency we will organise a group crit to discuss the work in progress and in the winter of 2013 there will be a public event presenting new research and work after a period of production and consolidation.

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