Category : extra special people

Eastside Projects, Lunch Club with Gregory Dunn, Friday 28 June, 1–2pm

Lunch Club with Gregory Dunn
Friday 28 June, 1–2pm

Escape your desk or studio for an hour and join us for lunch and to hear ESP member Gregory Dunn share his experience of being artist-in-residence in Japan. Everyone is welcome. We have an array of tea, coffee and herbal teas – all you need to bring is your packed lunch.

Eastside Projects, Toolkit: Maximum Fidelity, Monday 17 June, 6.30–8.30pm

Toolkit: Maximum Fidelity
Monday 17 June, 6.30–8.30pm
£4 / £2 concs / free to ESP Members

In this workshop artist and professional photographer Stuart Whipps will run through the practicalities of documenting artwork of all types from books and images to sculpture and performance. The session will cover the essential stages of documenting work including how to find appropriate settings and equipment, frame shots and create good lighting conditions.

Read More

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).

Read More

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.

Read More

Toolkit: Everything You Need to Know About Preparing Work For Print, Monday 22 April, 6.30-8pm, Eastside Projects

Toolkit: Everything You Need to Know About Preparing Work For Print
Monday 22 April, 6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

This practical workshop with graphic designer James Langdon will answer any questions you have about reproducing images in print. The session will cover preparing digital files for print and some technical detail about paper and printing processes. Whether you work in text or image, want to make high-run print editions or one-off works, James will be able to talk you through appropriate working methodologies.

As with all of the ESP Toolkits it is important that you make the most of this opportunity by bringing examples and questions to the session, however small or complicated.

James Langdon is an independent graphic designer and one of six Directors of Eastside Projects. He is the recipient of the 2012 Inform Award for Conceptual Design, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany.

Read More

Our way or the Bezier with Colophon Foundry, Thursday 18 April, 6.30–8pm, Eastside Projects

Our way or the Bezier with Colophon Foundry
Thursday 18 April, 6.30–8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

In this talk Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington will discuss their work as founders of Colophon Foundry. They will talk through their process of developing new typefaces, describe references and influences, explore relationships with collaborators and clients and share methods for distributing work. As a type foundry they are interested not only in designing new typefaces but in creating innovative and appropriate type Specimens which act as designed forms of display.

Following this introduction to their practice and the processes behind it, Colophon will be joined by Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham of Birmingham-based design studio An Endless Supply for a more informal conversation.

Colophon is an independent type foundry set up by London-based design studio, The Entente
(Anthony Sheret & Edd Harrington). As well as distributing and acting as a platform for typefaces designed by The Entente, it works closely with others, collaborating to release typefaces commercially these include: Benjamin Critton (Colophon US Office), Hamish Makgill, Dries Wiewauters, amongst others. The Entente is the office of Anthony Sheret & Edd Harrington who mostly work closely with cultural institutions, galleries, events and art-based projects with a focus on printed matter and typography.

Read More

Film Toolkit: fun with file types, Tuesday 26 March, 6.30-8pm, Eastside Projects

Film Toolkit: fun with file types
Tuesday 26 March, 6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

Are you having problems with losing quality when you export your digital films? Do your works come out squashed or widescreen when you burn them to DVD and you have not idea why? If so this is the workshop for you…

Artist Reuben Henry (of Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry) who has experience of making large-scale artist video commissions will lead this practical workshop on the technical aspects of importing and exporting digital video. He will cover: file types, formats, bit-rates, compression and export settings and will explore what video codecs are and which to use for different scenarios. Henry will share tips and discuss good practice in making and showing digital films, and how to get the best out of your footage whether for a mobile device or the big screen.

This session will be guided by you and what you want to find out, so come armed with your questions and confusions.

Read More

Eastside Projects Lunch Club with Jo Loki, 22 February, 1–2pm

Lunch Club discussion with Jo Loki
Friday 22 February, 1–2pm
86 Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Over lunch artist Jo Loki shares her experience of an international residency at The Banff Centre, Canada. Escape your desk or studio for an hour and join us, everyone is welcome. We have an array of tea, coffee and herbal teas – all you need to bring is your packed lunch. For more information visit www.extraspecialpeople.org.

www.eastsideprojects.org
+44 (0)121 771 1778
info@eastsideprojects.org

Artist’s Talk: Hannah Perry, 31 January, 6.30–8pm, Eastside Projects

Hannah Perry | Artist’s Talk
Thursday 31 January, 6.30–8pm
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
£4 / £2 conc. / Free to ESP members

In this artist’s talk Hannah Perry will introduce her practice and discuss examples of current and previous works before expanding outwards to speak about influential peers, scratch video techniques and sampling in early dance and hip hop music. Using examples of artists’ films and popular music, she will explore themes in her work such as appropriation, repetition and rhythm.

Hannah Perry, born 1984, is a British artist working mainly in installation, print and video. With a continuous practice of collecting and manipulating materials: film footage, sound clips, images and objects, Perry develops a sprawling network of references. She explores personal memory in today’s hyper-technological society and systems of representation and distribution.

Perry sees her work as a series of self-consciously humorous vignettes in which personal imagery is processed and confused to make footage that looks like something from YouTube and found material is used to play the personal out through popular culture. Her work explores the complexities of living physically, virtually, intellectually and sexually.

Perry graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2009 and has subsequently shown in solo and group shows in the UK and Europe. Recent group exhibitions include: Chester, at CO2 Gallery, Rome; Happy Paralysis at Les Urbaines, Lausanne and Young London, V22, London. In 2012 Perry also had a solo presentation at the Zabludowicz Gallery, London as part of the Zabludowicz Collection Invites series and a two-person show at Arcadia Missa, London, with Clunie Reid.

This event is part of a series produced in partnership with the BA Art & Design course at BIAD.

In March Hannah Perry will show work at Eastside Projects as part of a show-reel curated by Elinor Morgan, programmed to coincide with Flatpack Film Festival 2013.

www.eastsideprojects.org
www.extaspecialpeople.org

Eastside Projects Lunch Club, Friday 25 January, 1–2pm

Lunch Club
Friday 25 January, 1–2pm
86 Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AR

Escape your desk or studio for an hour and join us for lunch. Everyone is welcome. This is an informal, relaxed way to meet new people and find out more about what’s happening at Eastside Projects and in the wider world of Birmingham’s contemporary art scene. We provide tea, coffee, herbal teas – all you need to bring is your packed lunch.

www.eastsideprojects.org
www.extraspecialpeople.org
+44 (0)121 771 1778
info@eastsideprojects.org