Arts: Eastside Projects Exhibition Launch
Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation? The Glasgow based duo of Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan pose this question to the audience to make us all aware of the concept of art as an exhibition. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
Arts: As long as it lasts
Last week (20.2.9) saw the busy launch of the Bloor’s ‘As long as it lasts’ exhibition at the Eastside Projects gallery in Digbeth. It marks Simon and Tom Bloor’s first large scale solo exhibition in the town they call home, and is a chance for us to view their interpretation of modernist sculpture and flawed utopia. The collection, notably surrounded by an indoor grove of Silver Birch trees, details the Bloors’ interest in the concept of failed redevelopment projects and housing estates.
Arts: Eastside Projects
In Birmingham’s newly emerging cultural quarter, there is a billboard attached to the front of a building with an intriguing message. Written in Spanish, courtesy of New York based artist Liam Gillick, we are informed that ‘The Doors of the Administration Building are Now Open’. The administration refers to Birmingham’s new artist-led exhibition space Eastside Projects. Headed by Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects is an exciting, innovative and large-scale project space that takes radical exhibition precedents as its starting point. The gallery joins Vivid and Ikon Eastside in the area to form a formidable and extraordinary group of contemporary exhibition spaces never seen in Birmingham on this scale before. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
