Opens 5–9pm Friday 21 October 2011
12–5pm 22–30 October 2011

Grand Union, 19 Minerva Works Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS

As part of The Event 2011, Grand Union will be hosting a group exhibition of a curatorial relay, or conversation between exhibition and selection.

Alluding to the theme of The Event, Plato’s Symposium, the exhibition will be formed as a space of multiple voices; different positions coming together and merging indistinctly to link back to a common thread.

The first curator has selected a work in response to the overall context of the festival, this choice was sent to the second curator who has responded to this choice with another work. The exhibition begins to form as the two selected works are passed to the third curator who has responded. With the fourth choice of work the exhibition is finalised, and ready to be expanded by a series of collateral events.

The first selected artist is Tom Dale (London, UK). Dale’s piece, a newly commissioned installation, makes reference to the Allegory of the Cave: a place of illusions and tricks, a place where we doubt if what we are experiencing is reality, shadows, or shadows of shadows.

This is where it has all begun.

Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry Book launch
5 – 9pm Friday 21 October

Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry will present a limited edition print for Grand Union Editions, a video of a recent book launch, as well as their newly shot book, with texts by Emma Cocker, Brian Dillon and Mladen Dolar. Presented as part of a series of evolving solo commissions with Kihlberg & Henry, produced by VIVID in collaboration with Danielle Arnaud and Artsway.

Open Call
7.30 – 9pm Friday 28 October

A multi-screen installation of re-worked artist video curated by Helen Brown.
Partecipating artists: Dan Auluk, Phil Barber, Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Adam Chodzko, Chris Clinton, Joseph Cutts, Sean Edwards, Ben Fredericks, Anne Guest, Jo Masding, Sarah Fortes Mayor, Samuel Playford Greenwell, Klaus Thymann, Andrew & Caitlin Webb Ellis, Katy Woods.

Grand Union is an artist-led initiative that supports the development of artists and curators and aims to establish and nurture dialogue between contemporary visual artists, and local, national and international art organisations.

Established by a group of artists and curators in Birmingham, UK, Grand Union is a unique project that houses eight purpose built studios and a project space. The project space provides a platform for a diverse and exciting programme of events and exhibitions while the studios provide a professional and secure working environment.