Parallel Universes Meet at Infinity

Participating artists:
Christoph Draeger, Per Hüttner, The Discriminating Gentlemen’s Club, Peter Johansson and Barbro Westling, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Julia Montilla, and Manuel Saiz

Springhill Institute was the home and studio of artists Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry. Over the previous three years they hosted seven international artists residencies, where the invited artists lived and worked at Springhill Institute for two weeks to produce a new project.

The exhibition was a presentation of these works, some of which were shown for the first time in the UK, like Christoph Draeger’s remake of the nightclub scene from Antonioni’s Blow Up (filmed at Springhill Institute in 2006), or The Discriminating Gentlemen’s Club’s exploits, where the group flew giant black kites around Birmingham.

The residencies at Springhill were often the starting point for larger projects, like Kalleinen and Kochta’s Complaints Choir, which has since continued in Helsinki, Hamburg and St Petersburg. These works were presented at Springhill in the context of these developments.

The exhibition also presented the video work of Manuel Saiz, Per Hüttner, video documentation of Peter Johansson and Barbro Westling’s performance of The Bergman Horror Show, and Julia Montilla’s survey of paranormal activities in Birmingham.

31 March to 15 April 2007
Thursday to Sunday 12pm to 6pm

Springhill Institute
1 Springhill Passage
Ladywood
Birmingham B18 7A0H

www.springhillinstitute.org
springhill_institute(at)yahoo.com

Reuben Henry or Karin Kihlberg
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