Moritz Küng Book Talk 3 at Eastside Projects
2010.08.13 | 0 comments
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Moritz Küng Book Talk 3 at Eastside Projects
Thursday 19 August, 6.30–8pm
Free to Extra Special People Members, £3 to Non-Members
Eastside Projects presents a talk from curator Moritz Küng in the third of a series of book talks. In the spirit of ‘Curating the Library’ (founded by Küng at deSingel in 2003) Küng has been invited to select publications to become part of the Eastside Projects Library. His selections have been on display at Eastside Projects throughout ‘Book Show’, and on Thursday Küng will discuss how each title informs his practice.
Moritz Küng (b. 1961, Switzerland), is director of the new center for contemporary art ‘El Canodrom / La Capella’ in Barcelona, opening in 2011. He conceived Curating the Library in 2003 at deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp. Küng headed the exhibitions programme at deSingel from 2003–10, curating solo exhibitions of, among others, the architects Abalos & Herreros, SANAA and Christian Kerez, and the artists Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Heimo Zobernig. Küng lives and works in Barcelona.
‘Book Show’ continues at Eastside Projects until 4 September, 2010
Open Thursday 12–6.30pm, Friday to Saturday 12–5pm
‘Book’ now available to buy online
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Turning Point West Midlands at Eastside Projects
2010.08.06 | 0 comments
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ARTIST DISCUSSION
TURNING POINT WEST MIDLANDS (TPWM)
Wednesday 11 August , 6.30–8pm
Wednesday 11 August , 6.30–8pm
Venue: Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham B9 4AR
Some artists were unable to come to the meeting held recently at Margaret Street so Turning Point WM are holding another meeting, hosted by Eastside Projects. TP is a national network supported by Arts Council England and these informal meetings are the first stage in a process to develop a Visual Arts Strategy for the West Midlands. During the meeting TPWM will give an update on progress to date and then there will be an open forum to debate the opportunities and challenges for visual artists, now and in the future.
Artist Support and Development has been identified as a key priority for the Strategy. The purpose of the meeting is to begin to consider, with the artists who stand to benefit from it, ways this could be achieved.
For more information on TP see www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk If you can’t attend the meeting you can also give your views online (see link on homepage).
Call for participants: Eastside Projects/Supersonic Festival presents GOD’S WHITE NOISE, Saturday 23 October, 2010
2010.08.05 | 0 comments
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God’s White Noise, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Duerer-Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, 2009
Photo: Matthias Lahme
GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD’S WHITE NOISE): Action for Players, Guitars & Amplifiers
Eastside Projects, Saturday 23 October, 2010
As part of Supersonic Festival
Düsseldorf-based artist Christian Jendreiko is known for making actions with large ensembles of trained or untrained performers in novel, site-specific settings. Jendreiko specifically seeks to reconsider acoustics as aspects of how body and mind are constructed, through a decentralized and sculptural approach towards performance. Lasting anywhere between two and seven hours and featuring classically trained musicians alongside untrained performers in nonhierarchical and improvisatory fashion, Jendreiko transforms groups into social sculpture.
For the Birmingham premiere of ‘GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD’S WHITE NOISE): Action for Players, Guitars & Amplifiers’, a number of musicians and artists will perform at Eastside Projects over the course of 7 hours. Intended as a performance for an indeterminate number of guitarists and amplifiers, and taking its cue from a passage by Friedrich Schiller on man’s relationship to a series of sensual and formal compulsions (“For all beauty is ultimately but a property of … movement”), GOD’S WHITE NOISE will unfold over a single day, with guests free to enter, circulate throughout, and remain in the gallery space as long as they wish.
Jendreiko’s actions have been performed at Baer Ridgway, San Francisco (2010), Wesleyan University (2007), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007), Kunstverein Nürnberg/Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2009), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (2009) and in various galleries and art institutions throughout Europe. Jendreiko has also presented work internationally since 1999 as a founding member of Düsseldorf-based artist collective hobbypopMUSEUM.
OPEN CALL:
Eastside Projects and Supersonic are looking for performers for GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD’S WHITE NOISE), taking place at Eastside Projects on Saturday 23 October, 12–7pm. We are looking for people interested in going through the GOTTESRAUSCHEN experience: You do not need to be a trained guitar player, however you should be interested in sonic exploration of the self. The full performance lasts 7 hours — involvement for the duration is optional: players may come and go. Performers are required to bring their own electric guitar and amplifier, which can be stored securely at Eastside Projects for the full festival weekend. Contact info@eastsideprojects.org for more details.
Supersonic Festival: 22–24 October, 2010, Birmingham, UK
Featuring Swans, Napalm Death, Melt-Banana + more, visit www.supersonicfestival.com
Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham B9 4AR
Open Thursday 12–6.30pm, Friday to Saturday 12–5pm
0121 7711778 / www.eastsideprojects.org
www.facebook.com/eastsideprojects / www.twitter.com/eprjcts
> Current exhibition: BOOK SHOW, continues to 4 September, 2010
> BOOK now available to buy online
> Jennifer Tee solo exhibition opens Friday, 24 September, 2010
RCA Presents, What is a book?, Saturday 31 July, 2–5pm, FREE
2010.07.27 | 0 comments
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Royal College of Arts Presents, ‘What is a book?’
Screening + Workshop
Eastside Projects
Saturday 31 July, 2–5pm
Free entry. *Please note that the workshop event is limited to 15 places and booking is essential. To reserve a place contact info@eastsideprojects.org
Organised by participants of the Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College of Art, ‘What is a book?’ will feature a rare screening of Ulises Carrión’s 1987 videowork “Bookworks Revisited. Part 1: a selection”, followed by a bookmaking workshop with book artist and bookbinder Guy Begbie. The film screening is free and open to the public, but places on the workshop are limited and must be reserved. Please note that those taking part in the workshop are encouraged to bring along their own cutting mats and rulers!
Also at Eastside Projects this week:
Barbara Steveni, Book Talk 2
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‘Book’ Launch
Eastside Projects
Thursday 29 July, 6.30–8pm
Free entry
Eastside Projects presents a talk from artist Barbara Steveni in the second of a series of book talks. In the spirit of ‘Curating the Library’ Steveni has been invited to select publications for the Eastside Projects Library, and will discuss selections pivotal to her thinking.
Alongside Barbara Steveni’s Book Talk is the launch of ‘Book’, which functions as a mobile extension to ‘Book Show’. For one night only, ‘Book’ will be available for just £5 (RRP £10).
Extra Special People members attending the launch will receive a free copy of ‘Book’ – please note this offer is for one night only!
You can also sign up to Extra Special People on the night, to receive your free copy. For more info about membership visit Extra Special People
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Daniel Eatock Book Talk 1 at Eastside Projects
2010.07.13 | 0 comments
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Daniel Eatock Book Talk 1 at Eastside Projects
Thursday 15 July, 6.30–8pm, £3 (free for Extra Special People)
Booking essential, contact info@eastsideprojects.org
Eastside Projects presents a talk from artist Daniel Eatock in the first of a series of ‘book talks’. In the spirit of Curating the Library Eatock has been invited to select publications for the Eastside Projects Library, and will introduce selections that are pivotal to his thinking.
Daniel Eatock (b. 1975, Bolton, UK) is an artist whose practice subverts strategies of communications, rational problem solving and formal design/un-designed methodologies. He uses invitations, opportunities and chance circumstance, actively seeking, embracing and responding to the coincidences and contradictions encountered in everyday life. Daniel Eatock lives and works in London. For further info visit www.eatock.com
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‘Book Show’ continues at Eastside Projects until 4 September
Open Thursday 12–6.30pm and Friday to Saturday 12–5pm
Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane,
Digbeth
Birmingham B9 4AR
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BOOK SHOW at Eastside Projects, 3 July–4 September
2010.06.23 | 4 comments
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Book Show
Eastside Projects
Launch: 2 July, 6–9pm
Exhibition continues 3 July–4 September, 2010
Join us at Eastside Projects next week for the launch of BOOK SHOW: an exhibition of artworks, objects and structures that address the physical form of the book. The starting point for the exhibition is Ulises Carrión’s provocative series of aphorisms ‘The New Art of Making Books’ (1975). Carrión was the founder of Other Books and So in Amsterdam, a gallery and bookstore that during its short life (1975 to 1979) became the first major centre for the flourishing international artist-led publishing scene.
Book Show includes works by the 2006 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling, John Latham, American artist Nina Katchadourian, Zurich-based artist Rollo Press and more, and is accompanied by ‘Book’, a new publication edited by James Langdon that will be launching at the gallery on 29 July.
For more information check out our website and join the Eastside Projects Facebook page. It’s shaping up to be the show of the summer.
Eastside Projects awarded 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund
2010.05.24 | 1 comment
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Eastside Projects are delighted to announce that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund has awarded £360,000 to Gavin Wade, Director of Eastside Projects. (Download a pdf brochure announcing the awards here.)
The Breakthrough Fund was launched by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Arts programme with the aim of supporting exceptional ‘cultural entrepreneurs’ and wholeheartedly backs Eastside Projects’ commitment to investing in Birmingham’s massive cultural potential.
(Above: William Pope.L)
The award will allow us to expand our programme over the next 3 years working in depth with pioneering artists such as Mike Nelson, William Pope.L, Carey Young and Dan Graham, and to improve the quality of our support for artists in the city and internationally. The award also provides invaluable support for organisational growth and highlights our unique cultural offer for future investment and partnerships within Birmingham and beyond.
The Breakthrough Fund ensures that we can build on the hard work since our launch in 2008 to expand both the capacity of Birmingham’s contemporary art scene and the methodologies and comprehension of art production. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s support combined with that of our other key partners, Arts Council England and Birmingham City University, makes possible the planning of a sustainable future for our vibrant, complex, and challenging space.
We would like to thank the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for their invaluable support, insight and enthusiasm for our public activities and belief in our vision.
In other news, our current exhibition, Raving Gardens by hobbpopMUSEUM, continues until 12 June and the gallery is open Thursday to Saturday. What better way to spend the heatwave?
hobbypopMUSEUM Launch at Eastside Projects
2010.05.03 | 1 comment
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Eastside Projects proudly presents a new solo exhibition by Düsseldorf- and London-based artist group hobbypopMUSEUM. Please join us this Friday 7 May, 6-9pm, for the exhibition launch and enjoy some Pimm’s within the pastoral, springtime world of hobbypop.
More info is on the Eastside Projects website and you can make it a date by confirming on our Facebook event page.
There’s also the Eastside Projects Facebook page where you can like us and receive all of our latest news and updates; It’s the smart way to stay on top of the art business. Eastside Projects is at 86 Heath Mill Lane, just ’round the corner from the Custard Factory.
Eastside Projects Online Bookshop
2010.04.21 | 0 comments
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Eastside Projects publications are now available to buy online through our brand new bookshop. Just browse through the publications pages at the Eastside Projects website to find the Google Checkout ‘Buy Now’ buttons.
It’s quick, clean and easy, and open 24/7. Recent titles include Liam Gillick ‘Two Short Plays’, Has Man a Function in Universe?, and Simon & Tom Bloor ‘As long as it lasts’. Buy now to ensure positive reading experiences.
As ever, you can still visit the gallery’s physical bookshop, which also stocks the latest art magazines and journals.
Eastside Projects open this Sunday
2010.03.23 | 0 comments
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To coincide with the final day of the Flatpack Festival (opening tonight!), Eastside Projects will be open this coming Sunday, 28 March, 12-5pm.
You can also visit Curtain Show, featuring art works in curtain format within curtain exhibition design by artists including Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean and Grace Ndiritu, every Thursday, 12-6.30pm, and Friday to Saturday, 12-5pm, until April 17th.
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