The shape of further things?

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For us, as we hope it is for you, the appearance of Corridor8 each year is an adventure. We never know fully until the last minute quite how our ideas will manifest, what exactly you will have to hold and, when you do, what shape it will take. Suffice to say that it will always be a fresh departure – exciting, novel and full of surprises! The new edition, hopefully due September 2011, will be no exception. All we can say about it at the moment is that Dust, our designers, and the editorial team, have once again banged heads, we have a plan that we are very excited about, and that we are steadily working towards its fruition. We will continue to use Corridor8 as a platform for the wealth of contemporary visual art that is coming out of the North of England, and produce a genuinely visually appealing and stimulating journal, containing the most prescient, informative and challenging content we can find. Watch this space.

Corridor8 films

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If you came to the launch events of Corridor8 #2 last October, or even if you didn’t, the talks we gave can now be seen in two recent films.

In the first film artist-explorer and Corridor8 contributor Neville Gabie will give you a fascinating insight into his practice and a Greenland iceberg.

The other film, Art School Alternatives, documents with full coverage the various talks and workshops held during Corridor8’s symposium on the current debate on art education.

Secs and Death Cells Exhibition, The Hive, Manchester, Thursday 7th April 2011

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In April, Corridor8 were invited by current students on the Masters of Fine Art at the Metropolitan University to curate a show around their practice. Rather than simply selecting some of their current work we took the approach of giving each artist – Nina Chua, Tiago Duarte, Nicola Ellis, Shona Harrison and Ana Rosa Hopkins – a brief for them to respond to. The new work was showcased in a one night only event at The Hive, in the less colonised edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The artwork on display, visible through the plate glass windows of HKR Architect’s über modern building was professional, and was lent an edge by the eerie, pitted streets and boarded-up premises outside. It was every bit as jumpy as Hoxton when the first gallery moved there, and one yearned that a more permanent exhibition space/gallery might soon materialise in the place of this fleeting well-attended pop-up event.

Photography: Stephen Isles