Alan Lomax was a musicologist who spent over six decades working to promote knowledge and appreciation of ‘people’s songs’, and he gathered an enormous archive of folk, blues, gospel, country and traditional music.
You can see an amazing collection of videos via the Association of Cultural Equity, which Lomax founded to research and disseminate the world’s traditional music, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage.
Tuesday 25 June, 6.30-8.30pm
Join us for a talk and discussion event with Simon Senn and Holly Pester, artists in our current show A Small Hiccup.
6.30pm Simon Senn & Vasi Hasan
Swiss artist Simon Senn produced his video ‘Gulberg’, for our current exhibition ‘A Small Hiccup’, in collaboration with Birmingham based business man Vasi Hasan.
Australian producers Super Critical Mass have been commissioned by Capsule to presentTogether We Breathe, a large-scale project to celebrate the opening of the Library of Birmingham, and we’re looking for players to help us make this a truly a magnificent spectacle!
A mass of brass players from the region will be positioned throughout the new library building, filling the air with a dramatic opening fanfare. From the deep throb of tuba, the wash of trombone, and the sinewy swirl of trumpets, audiences will be welcomed to the Library of Birmingham by a forest of brass.
We are very pleased to welcome Spencer Hickman to Capsule’s Advisory Committee. A long friend of Capsule, Spencer has been really supportive of Supersonic Festival over the years and we’re thrilled to be receiving his invaluable input to Capsule’s planning.
With over 20 years experience, music industry veteran Spencer Hickman is one of the loudest supporters of independent music in the UK. Hickman spent years working in record shops including setting up and running Rough Trade East (the UK’s largest record store), it won retail brand of the year twice under his management.
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 the 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.
Join Eastside Projects’ Director Gavin Wade and artists Gunilla Klingberg and Jim Howieson for an informal introduction to our new exhibitions.
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.
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.
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.
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.