21 – 30 October 2011
Eastside Projects, Birmingham

As part of The Event 2011, Eastside Projects have produced a series of exhibitions and performances throughout The Event.

Public Evaluation Event
27 – 29 October

A three-day production symposium as exhibition, analysing and evaluating three years of Eastside Projects as an artist run space as public gallery, shifts in artist run activity in Birmingham, the UK and internationally, and impact and changes in cultural policy agendas, regeneration and support structures for art spaces with invited participants: Maria Lind, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Jonathan Vickery, Mick Wilson, Lucy Kimbell, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Henrik Schrat. Across the three days there will be a range of focus sessions including: The Digbeth Summit, Extra Special People AGM, We Are Eastside and Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum. Supported by Birmingham City University.

Empty Orchestra
curated by Georgie Park & Samuel Rodgers
13 – 23 October, Performances 7-9pm 21 October

Empty Orchestra is the literal translation of karaoke. This Second Gallery exhibition will be a working lounge bar including new and existing works by Dominick Allen, Stephen Cornford, Petra Cortright, Flat Soufflé, Rob Gawthrop, Christopher Gladwin, Laura James & Samuel Rodgers, Pete McPartlan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Team Doyobi and Gillian Wylde. Artists will interrogate, dismantle, displace, replace and rebuild the tools and contexts of musical performance. From the use of instruments in extended ways, and playful explorations of audio/visual interferences, to work that abandons precision to embrace ‘shoddiness’, the exhibition brings together the slick and the shabby, the engineered and the experimental.

Velzuvial
Christian Jendreiko & Andrew Moscardo-Parker
9pm Saturday 22 – 9pm Sunday 23 October

A 24-hour guitar & other instruments performance scored & performed by Dusseldorf based Christian Jendreiko, with his music label Apparent Extent, and Birmingham based Andrew Moscardo-Parker of Einstellung and Lash Frenzy fame. The two artists will work with various performers from Birmingham, the UK and Europe, across the 24-hour period in conjunction with Supersonic Festival. Velzuvial: Unendlich Gestischen Abstraktion will be the first UK 24-hour performance by Jendreiko following on from the 7-hour performance of GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD’S WHITE NOISE) Action for Players, Guitars and Amplifiers in 2010 at Eastside Projects during Supersonic Festival. We plan to release a 12inch record of excerpts of the 2010 God’s White Noise also on this occasion.

William Pope.L: Child
17 September – 5 November

A new major three screen video commission and film-set installation in the main gallery at Eastside Projects by Chicago based Pope.L, the self-dubbed ‘Friendliest Black Artist in America’. In Child Jebediah, a father, seeks out his child after a long absence. He has been living in the same town but absent from the child’s life. Jebediah lives with a woman who is not the child’s mother. He finds the child, now a young adult, in a bar with large windows facing the street that let in the sunset. The child recognizes his father but acts like a stranger. Jebediah buys his child drinks. Child suddenly exits the bar. The father follows. They travel from bar to bar to bar. Their journey is a unique tour of ‘the city’ with an underlying surrealist cowboy western structure.

About Eastside Projects

Eastside Projects is an artist-run space, a public gallery for the City of Birmingham and the world. It is organised by a founding collective comprising Simon & Tom Bloor, Celine Condorelli, Ruth Claxton, James Langdon and Gavin Wade, who first conceived and now runs the space.

Eastside Projects is a new model for a gallery, one where space and programme are intertwined: a complex evolving programme of works and events starting from radical historical positions.
We aim to commission and present experimental contemporary art practices and exhibitions. The artist is invited to set the existing conditions for the gallery. Work may remain. Work may be responded to. The gallery is a collection. The gallery is an artwork. The artist-run space is a public good.

Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK
Contact 0121-771-1778 info@eastsideprojects.org
www.eastsideprojects.org