Category : eastside projects

Empty Orchestra, 13 – 23 October, Eastside Projects Second Gallery

Empty Orchestra
Curated by Georgie Park and Samuel Rodgers
13 – 23 October, Eastside Projects Second Gallery
 

 
Empty Orchestra is the literal translation of karaoke. This Second Gallery exhibition will be a working lounge bar including new and existing works by Dom Allen, Sophie Lisa Beresford, Stephen Cornford, Petra Cortright, Flat Soufflée, Rob Gawthrop, Christopher Gladwin, Laura James & Samuel Rodgers, Maria Minerva, Pete McPartlan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Alex Peverett and Gillian Wylde.
 
Artists will interrogate, dismantle, displace, replace and rebuild the tools and contexts of musical performance. From the use of instruments in extended ways, and playful explorations of audio/visual interferences, to work that abandons precision to embrace ‘shoddiness’, the exhibition brings together the slick and the shabby, the engineered and the experimental.
 
Performances:
 
7-8.30pm Saturday 15 October
Jack Harris & Samuel Rodgers / Robert Curgenven & Katrin Bethge
 
7-9pm Friday 21 October
Dom Allen / Flat Soufflée / ICASEA-Yperdimensional Taikyokuken
 
7-8.30pm Saturday 22 October
Rob Gawthrop + Pete McPartlan
 
www.emptyorchestra.org
 
Part of The Event and Supersonic Festival

Exhibition Opportunity at Eastside Projects

YOU +

EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE +

EASTSIDE PROJECTS =

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

FREEE Whistleblowing Workshop – Thursday 7 July, 2-4pm, Eastside Projects

FREEE: Whistleblowing Workshop
Thursday 7 July, 2–4pm, Eastside Projects

A workshop by the artist collective FREEE, learning and developing the techniques of whistleblowing. Booking is essential (0121 771 1778).

Eastside Projects: Curators’ Introduction Thursday 12 May 6:30-8pm

Curators’ Introduction: Narrative Show & Poster Club
Thursday 12 May
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects

Free to Members or £4/£2 Concessions

Gavin Wade introduces the new exhibition at Eastside Projects: Narrative Show.

Featuring: Helen Brown, Dora Garcia, Nathanial Mellors, Jonathan Monk, Heather & Ivan Morison, Raimundas Malasauskas, Sally O’Reilly, John Russell, Henrik Schrat & Jemima Stehli,
Plus: FREEE & William Pope.L.

Second Gallery: Poster Club

Extra Special People

Eastside Projects

Eastside Projects: Self Assembly TONIGHT 6:30-8pm

Self Assembly
Thursday 5 May
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.

To book a ‘pitch’ or find out more email info@extraspecialpeople.org

21 April 2011 Screening: Hosted By Katy Woods

Thursday 21 April
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects
FREE
Katy introduces some of her favourite artist’s film and moving image work, plus, best-loved cinematic highlights. This programme features a selection of art films and movies that have influenced her practice and her thinking about filmmaking. Featured artist’s films include Andy Parkman Neptune 2008, Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore 1999, Sadie Benning It Wasn’t Love 1992 and Josephine Flynn Stuff 3 2003. Highlights from cinema include beginnings, middles and ends from (amongst others) John G. Avildsen Rocky 1976, Jim Jarmusch Stranger Than Paradise 1984 and Werner Herzog Stroezek 1977.

14 April 2011 Artist’s Talk: Dora Garcia

6.30-8pm

Eastside Projects

Currently showing as part of Again, A Time Machine, in the second gallery at Eastside Projects, Dora Garcia discusses her project and wider practice. This is a FREE event as part of Extra Special People‘s Programme.

Also, next week we have a screening hosted by Katy Woods.
Thursday 21 April
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects

Katy introduces some of her favourite artist’s film and moving image work, plus, best-loved cinematic highlights. This programme features a selection of art films and movies that have influenced her practice and her thinking about filmmaking. Featured artist’s films include Andy Parkman Neptune 2008, Mark Leckey Fiorcucci Made Me Hardcore 1999, Sadie Benning It Wasn’t Love 1992 and Josephine Flynn Stuff 3 2003. Highlights from cinema include beginnings, middles and ends from (amongst others) Harmony Korine Gummo 1997, John G. Avildsen Rocky 1976, Jim Jarmusch Stranger Than Paradise 1984 and Werner Herzog Stroezek 1977.

Today! Book Launch: Bill Drummond – Imajine

Book Launch: Bill Drummond – Imajine
Tuesday 8 March, 6.30-8pm, Eastside Projects

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT:

EARTHQUAKE, HAITI, BEING ALIVE, WATCHING PEOPLE DIE, RUNNING, THE END OF THE WORLD, HOPE, FEAR, PRAYING, SURVIVING, STRUGGLE, CORRUPTION, TRUST.

Drummond will be celebrating the publication of IMAJINE by standing on a chair and engaging all those present with nothing but the power of the words contained in this book.

He will also be instigating the construction of a sculpture entitled 40 T-shirts For Sale.

And it being Kanaval, the biggest day in the Haitian calendar and Kanaval being our Pancake Day, Drummond will be making pancakes for anyone who wants one.

The pancakes are free the books are not.

http://www.penkilnburn.com/paintings/21/claudel_casseus.php

Toolkit – Book keeping, self assessment and all that financial jazz

Toolkit – Book keeping, self assessment and all that financial jazz
Thursday 3 March, 6.30-8pm, Eastside Projects

Hildegarde Darby leads a session on accounting for sole traders. With over 20 years experience working in industry and current financial manager for Rhubarb Rhubarb, she will be taking us through Excel spreadsheets, Self-Assessment and much, much more. Don’t miss out on how to streamline your finances and all the ways you can save money.

£FREE to ESP Members or £4 on the door (we can provide a receipt for your expenses accounts!!)