Poet Phillip Monks will lead this practical writing workshop, working with participants to create poems in response to Gunilla Klingberg’s immersive installation. Taking ideas that inform both Gunilla’s work and Eastside Projects’ programme more broadly – including fixed positions, accumulation and layering – as source material we will develop individual and group pieces, written and spoken. All levels of experience are welcome and the workshop is free, but advance booking is required.

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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.

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.

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Join Eastside Projects’ Director Gavin Wade and artists Gunilla Klingberg and Jim Howieson for an informal introduction to our new exhibitions.

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Sarah has been busily exploring the collections at Winterbourne and Lapworth Museum of Geology over the last few months, through the Capsule artist residency at University of Birmingham, making new work inspired by the botanic and fossil collections. Here is her first update on the residency, with some amazing images.

“The Lapworth collection is home to hundreds of fossils, maps and geological items, whilst the arts and crafts era Winterbourne House houses, amongst many other living libraries, a rare collection of succulents as well as display glasshouses containing plants from all over the world. It also features an original letter printing press which can be used by visitors.

Using techniques relevant to archeology and the arts and crafts movement – casting and printmaking (screen, letterpress and photoengraving) I have been gathering images and objects that focus on the textures of the fossils and plants to make my own ‘collection’ based on pattern, texture and the similar designs of the minerals and flora.

This collection will take shape as a set of records formed not by cutting or pressing but by casting images into resin which, which when played on a record player will provide a multitude of different sonic textures, beats and drones that will serve as a sonic archive of the objects and will be used to create a new sonic work. Following the notion of collections, a series of poster prints and printed record sleeves will accompany the discs.”

Read more about Sarah’s previous work via www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk
Capsule are producing this artist residency in partnership with University of Birmingham.

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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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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Simon Senn, screen shot from Gulberg (2013)

Is it always good to talk?

A Small Hiccup is a travelling exhibition, events programme, publication and online commission of new work exploring diseased language curated by George Vasey.

Featuring new work by artists:
Jeremy Hutchison
Leah Lovett
Fay Nicolson & Oliver Smith
Siôn Parkinson
Holly Pester
Erica Scourti
Simon Senn
Charlie Woolley

Join us for the opening at Grand Union on Friday 24 May 6–8pm.

Exhibition continues until 5 July 2013, Thurs to Sat 12–5pm.

See www.smallhiccup.tumblr.com for additional artworks, reading and playlists.

www.grand-union.org.uk for more information.

Friday 17 May 7.30–9.30pm

Grand Union presents a programme of films by George Barber, Sebastian Buerkner, Lenka Clayton and Peter Rose as a prelude to exhibition ‘A Small Hiccup’.

Part of Digbeth’s first ART AFTER HOURS event, including events at The Edge, The Lombard Method, Eastside Projects, Edible Eastside, Vivid Projects and Stryx. See http://grand-union.org.uk/ for more information.

FREE EVENT

Kindly supported by LUX, London.

Image © Sebastian Buerkner and LUX, London

The Birmingham 2022 project aims to provide a space for unique perspectives on the current and future cultural offer for young people in Birmingham. Capsule are producing this project with Fused Magazine, Amy Martin, mac, Ideas Tap and is part of the Library of Birmingham opening season. A group of young people are working together over 6 months to generate alternative visions for the future of arts and culture in Birmingham,and will work as a team to create a professional-standard printed magazine-style brochure for the Discovery Festival of the New Library of Birmingham. We’ve put together an editorial team and now we are looking for a designer to jump on board and get involved…

JOB DETAILS

We’re looking for an experienced and talented all-round graphics whizz to work on a magazine layout project with up to 15 young people over the summer of 2013.

You’ll be working with a team of facilitators on an intensive project to produce the official brochure of the ‘Discovery Season’ for the opening of Birmingham’s new Library based around the designed Discovery Season logo.

During a 2 week summer school (based in Birmingham city centre) an editorial team will produce text, images and artwork. We’re looking for an individual to work closely with the group (during the second week) to help turn their vision of the brochure in to reality with a highly professional finished product.

Download the Job Description here: www.fusedmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/GD_JobDescription.pdf

You can keep up with Birmingham 2022 project via birmingham2022.wordpress.com