More news of this soon!

To coincide with the launch we are developing a programme of events that will expand and explore the newly published content.

Wonderlands
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Saturday 25th September

Join Corridor8 for an afternoon of readings, film screenings and high tea in a picnic-themed interior. Details to be announced.

Art School Alternatives
Liverpool John Moores’ University
7th October 10 – 6pm

A participatory symposium that looks to the communal and collaborative in the current debates on art education.

‘Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a circumstance, an attitude, or a constellation of relationships of the transfer of acquired, invented, and accumulated knowledge…?’ Raqs Media Collective, ‘Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century’, MIT Press (2009)

The symposium will explores methods of learning and ideas of school, and draws together a range of practitioners including Department 21, Heath Bunting, Kate Rich, Islington Mill Art Academy, Lady Lucy, Circa Projects, Megan Wakefield, Black Dogs, A Latento, No Fixed Abode, and Artmarket/Kunstfreund.

The event will also include a preview screening of a new film work by audio-visual artist Paul Rooney.

Art School Alternatives is supported by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool John Moore’s University.

The event is free but booking is required. Please visit www.artschoolalternatives.info for more information

Bewilderbeast
Monday 18th October, 1pm
Cornerhouse, Manchester

As part of Manchester Literature Festival Corridor8 join Bewilderbeast magazine for a lunchtime of reading and discussion with the editors.

Bewilderbliss is produced by students on the University of Manchester’s Creative Writing MA programme, showcasing the best new prose and poetry from the rainy city and beyond.

Tickets are free, but booking is advised. Book on 0843 208 0500 or www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Launched last year, Manchester Contemporary is an exhibition and art fair for emerging and established artists, showcasing a selected collection of leading UK galleries in the North West.

As a partner organization for Manchester Contemporary, Corridor 8 are working with Mark Doyle Head of the Contemporary Art Society North West to programme a series of talks on collecting in the region – who collects, how to start collecting and why the collecting of contemporary art is vital for the support of emerging north west practitioners.

As last year, we will be taking a table at the fair for the full four-day event.

“Creating a platform for contemporary art in the North, The Manchester Contemporary will showcase some of the most provocative and inspiring art emerging today. Prepare to be challenged and forced to think differently as The Manchester Contemporary presents some of the best talent within the contemporary art scene.” Mark Doyle

Launch of Corridor8 #2
October

Then there’s our launch event in Liverpool.
Details to be announced soon!

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.

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 24^th until Sunday 27^th 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.