Corridor8 News
Posted on | August 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
Corridor8 magazine at Artists’ Book and Zine Fair,
Spike Island, Bristol
Saturday, 31 October, 1–9 pm, free entry
Following on from Spike Island’s first ever Artists’ Book & Zine Fair in 2008, the event is back by popular demand, programmed by artist and Spike Associate Sovay Berriman. Corridor8 will have a stall there – come see the first issue of our magazine and meet publisher Michael Butterworth and Corridor8 Research Assistant and contributor Laura Mansfield.
Laura is a writer and researcher living in Manchester who edited Spike Island Journal 2 Currency and Exchange, an international exchange of text exploring notions of local and global identity. As well as working with Corridor8 she has recently been working with artist Amy Feneck on the Great North Run Cultural Programme.
The Book and Zine Fair will be showcasing both homegrown talent and self-published work from around the UK.
Programme:
Artists’ Book & Zine Fair: 1-6pm in Gallery 2
Drinking, Dancing & Mingling: 6-9pm in Spike Cafe.
Come along to browse, buy and meet like-minded people. Then stay on for music in the Spike Café ahead of your Halloween night out.
A series of afternoon talks are also being planned in connection with Spike Island’s ART + WRITING strand – more details on the Spike Island website.
Buy Art Fair
Thursday 24th until Sunday 27th September 2009:
If you didn’t make our launch party in July, you can catch up with us at Corridor8’s next outing during this year’s Buy Art Fair at Urbis, Manchester. A number of writers and artists from the publication will be appearing to talk and show new work, including a surprise art giveaway from one of our contributors. You will also get a chance to talk to core staff from the publication and review the launch night video and presentation by Iain Sinclair. We look forward to seeing you at Stand 205, on the second floor.
The Buy Art Fair brings to Urbis in Manchester the chance to buy original art from over 80 galleries and 350 sought after artists. The event includes a book signing by Kevin Cummings and an Art Talk programme with speakers from Contemporary Art Society, Arts In Business and Manchester Gallery.
Children’s activities will provide an an opportunity to experiment with a variety of art materials to explore different colours and practice drawing in the Colour Lab run by the Urbis Learning Team.
There is also the opportunity to visit a unique exhibition on the third floor of Urbis – The Manchester Contemporary – and see a selection of work from leading UK contemporary galleries. Work is included from the likes of Bureau, Castlefield Gallery, Ceri Hand Gallery, DOMOBAAL, Limoncello, Man&Eve, Moot, NETTIE HORN, Rokeby, The International 3, Workplace Gallery and WORKS | PROJECTS. Plus a specially commissioned artwork by Nathaniel Mellors. ( See the Buy Art website for full event details).
Tickets are £5 each or if you pre-register online then they are free. Visit: www.buyartfair.co.uk
Or contact si at corridor8 dot co dot uk for a limited availability complimentary ticket.
Opening Times
Thursday 24th September 5pm-9pm (Preview Night – Invite Only)
Friday 25th September 12 noon – 7pm
Saturday 26th September 11am – 6pm
Sunday 27th September 11am – 5pm
Appearing at the Corridor8 stand, so far announced are:
Bob Levene – Friday 14.00 – 16.00
Rachel Goodyear – Friday 17.00 – 19.00
Phil Griffin – Sunday 12.00 – 14.00
Tweeted by ART WORLD Magazine on 31 July:
“Impressed by Corridor8 #1, large-scale yearly mag of new Northern UK arts & writing with bonus Rachel Goodyear print“
Issue 1:
Art and the SuperCity
‘Wandering Deansgate was like finding yourself in the middle of some dark fantasy for which you had no instructions. Cliffs of unreason. Deansgate as a river of human traffic, the Irwell its liquid margin.’ Iain Sinclair
Exclusive commissions and new work by the UK’s leading artists and writers
Will Alsop & Peter Saville & Iain Sinclair & Jon Savage & Chris Petit & Paul Bradley & tenantspin & Paul Rooney & Isabel Nolan & Rory Macbeth & Bob Levene & Simon Le Ruez & Rachel Goodyear & Matthew Houlding & Freee & Linder
Issue #1 takes as its central theme Will Alsop’s daring vision for the future of the North of England: his SuperCity — the vast urban corridor that proposes to unite cities and towns as disparate as Liverpool and Hull, extending overseas to Ireland in the West and Denmark in the East. Around this theme, Corridor8 commissions and features exclusive interviews with five visionary artists connected to the SuperCity and, between them, slots ‘flash’ profiles of some of the emerging artists living and working there.
Alongside a major literary commission from Sinclair, the annual contains a free limited edition art print from artist Rachel Goodyear, a poster by graphics icon Linder for Richard Nicholl’s autumn collection, and cover art by international artist Michelangelo Pistoletto — three new works acting as a fitting celebration for our inaugural issue.
Corridor8: The launch
Corridor8 is launched on July 16, 2009, at Urbis, Manchester, with an exclusive talk by the British author, essayist and psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair.
Photo by Harry Dutton
To accompany the launch, Sinclair has conducted a walk through Manchester — a meandering, poetic journey designed to shed new light on a city at once ancient and contemporary. Taking a route from Urbis to the edge of the city, Sinclair saw ghosts and alchemists, geographers and ‘discreet medics’, a road that turned into ‘a river of human traffic’ and pockets of green where wildlife flourished in a way it never could in the ‘toxic run-off from Olympic piracy’ in London.
On 16 July, Sinclair will relive this walk in a talk given at its starting point: Urbis. This is an opportunity to meet one of Britain’s leading psychogeographers, and to find out why he has been tempted to write about the North of England for the first time. This part of the launch is strictly limited to 100 places and is now almost sold out.
If you are unable to make the talk, Sinclair’s new documentary work on the SuperCity can be raed in Corridor8 available at the launch, here on the website, or in key specialist shops. ISBN:978-0955267222. See the Subscribe and Buy page for more information and a list of stockists. Sinclair’s Manchester journey can be downloaded as a podcast from the Urbis website until 31 July 09.
Available from
Corridor8 Newsletter
Corridor8 Writers
- Alan Dunn
- Iain Sinclair Official Unofficial Website (Sanctioned by Author)
- Marie-Anne McQuay
- Michael Butterworth Publishing
- Susie Stubbs
Corridor8 Contributors & Artists
- Bob Levene
- dust - Corridor8 designers
- Isabel Nolan (1)
- Isabel Nolan (2) @ Kerlin Gallery
- Linder
- Michael Butterworth Publishing
- Rory McBeth (1)
- Rory McBeth (2) Paris
- Simon Le Ruez (1)
- Simon Le Ruez (2)
- Simon Le Ruez (3)
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