December 2011 Launch Events
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James Hugonin Talk at Baltic Tuesday 13 December 6.30pm to 9pm, free entry, but RSVP essential
The creator of one of our tantalising extra bits, and the subject of an Issue 3 profile, James Hugonin will be present in person to talk about his work. Places are limited, to reserve email joanna@joannarowlands.co.uk
Open Submission Film and Video Night
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Thursday 8 December 7pm to 11pm, free entry
Star and Shadow Cinema
Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP
Corridor 8 is celebrating the launch of the third edition with a night of film and video by North East artists.
As Corridor8 explores the territory of art and writing across the North, we’re seeking new artists to showcase at our launch and online. We want to find the talented filmmakers and video artists in the North East and to profile them and their work.
We’re accepting short films by artists living or working in the North East to be screened in the Star and Shadow Cinema on the launch night of our third edition. The films can be on any subject, but should be on a DVD or digital format and last no longer than 30 minutes.
Films will be selected by Corridor8’s editorial team, and our three favourite submissions will be profiled in a special online feature in the New Year.
Submissions should reach us by 5pm on Friday 2 December.
Please post your submission to:
Corridor8 Film and Video Open Submission
55 Hope Road
Manchester
M33 3BJ
Please include:
Your name
Contact details (email, address and telephone number)
Film title, date and duration
Please email Clara Casian cc@corridor8.co.uk with any queries.
Manchester Contemporary
Posted on | October 27, 2011 | Comments Off
In case you’re wondering where the Corridor8 team are, tonight you’ll find us mingling at the opening of the Manchester Contemporary. Whilst getting a preview of the latest art from Bureau, Ceri Hand, The International 3 and Workplace galleries, we might also be heard to casually mention the forthcoming third issue of Corridor8, that just so happens to profile the private galleries working in the North. It is of course another new format for the magazine, with new tantalising extras, and a launch date in Newcastle in December.
Just also wanted to mention that the events at MC look good this year too. We’re looking forward to Tom Dickson’s talk (check out the profile in Issue 2 for some background info) and hearing about not only his impressive collection, stored and displayed in his Sheffield mid-terrace, but also his archive of press clippings and memorabilia on every artist in his collection. Thorough stuff.
Newcastle Launch!
Posted on | October 27, 2011 | Comments Off
Some dates for the diary!
Thursday 8 December
Launch Party at the Star and Shadow Cinema
A showcase of films from artists in the North East and the first part of Issue3. Click here to find out more about our Cinema hosts.
Tuesday 13 December
James Hugonin Talk at Baltic
The creator of one of our tantalising extra bits, and the subject of an Issue3 profile, James Hugonin will be present in person to talk about his work! He’s also up for the Northern Art Prize this year – click here for more on that.
Corridor8′s music for both ears’ courtesy of barney doodlebug more.
Neville Gabie/Corridor8 #2 launch 25th October 2010, Liverpool Biennial Visitors’ Centre
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Film by Linda Dutton
For his installation a weight of ice carried from the north for you for the 2010 Tatton Biennial, the artist-explorer Neville Gabie brought a 2.5 ton piece of Greenland iceberg to Tatton Park Gardens country estate in Cheshire, UK. Gabie describes the journey taken by the iceberg to its eventual housing in a solar-powered glass refrigerator amidst the lush greenery of the park. Seemingly an exotic addition to a quintessentially English garden, the plant species in the gardens are themselves interlopers, transported by their Victorian collectors. A fascination with the effects of contextual changes wrought on objects moved through extremes of time and space, and the cultural confluence to be found at such places as building sites, this film is classic Gabie.
See also ‘A Weight of One’s Own’, an exclusive interview with Neville Gabie by David Lillington, Corridor8 #2.
Until December 2011, Neville is Artist in Residence at the Olympic Park, East London, during its construction out of the Lower Leigh Valley.
Corridor8 # 2 launches Monday 25 October 2010
Posted on | October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
Our special guest speaker is the traveller, explorer and artist Neville Gabie, who will be recounting his experience of bringing part of an iceberg from the Arctic Ocean to this year’s Tatton Biennial.
Venue:
Liverpool Biennial Visitor Centre (former Rapid Hardware store),
52 Renshaw Street,
Liverpool
L1 4PN
Time: 6.30-9pm
If you would like to join us please RSVP to jr@corridor8.co.uk
Art School Alternatives /Liverpool Biennial 2010, 7th October 2010
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John Moore’s University Art & Design Academy, the Johnson Foundation Auditorium. Trailer film. Comprehensive film of the artist-led workshops and discussions exploring alternative concepts and structures of learning can be found on the Art School Alternatives site, http://artschoolalternatives.tumblr.com/
Symposium chaired by Derek Horton and initiated/produced by Laura Mansfield.
Films by Carl Davies
See also the following related articles by Derek Horton:
‘(Sitting on a log) Imagining the SuperCity Art School’, Corridor8 #1 (2009).
‘Unmitigated’, A Latento #3 (2009, ISSN 1755-5787, Eds: Alex Farrar, Harry Meadley & Iona Smith). http://www.alatento.eu/
‘On Flying Through Dust Clouds, Escaping Fog Factories & Doing-it-yourself in the Cultural Borderlands’, Corridor8 #2 (2010).
‘Underground With Duchamp: Digging in and Tunneling Out’, forthcoming, Line magazine http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2011/feb/03/edinburgh-line-magazine-edinburgh-college
Participants in the Corridor8 symposium have since been involved in the formation of Strategies for Free Education (http://noinstitute.wordpress.com/), an artist-led think tank and action group run by members of Disrupt Dominant Frequencies (http://www.disruptdominantfrequencies.net/) and No Fixed Abode (http://www.nofixedabode.org.uk/). Upcoming is a conference with a more local educational slant by discussion platform Millpond (http://www.millpond-leeds.co.uk/about#) and student co-operative SLICE (http://www.sliceleeds.blogspot.com/).
Following the symposium, Islington Mill Art Academy (http://www.islingtonmill.com/index.php) have visited fellow participants Department 21 (http://www.department21.net/) and symposium attendees The Glasgow Open School (http://gdiycommunity.wordpress.com/).
Symposium participant Lady Lucy’s current exhibition Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio is open to the public until the 22nd of May 2011 at Whitechapel Gallery, London.
In March 2011 symposium attendees Alternative Strategies played host to a series of open discussions, screenings and workshops which stem from the desire to look creatively, critically and productively at different ways of approaching self-organised education and methods for building on and disseminating knowledge.
http://alternativestrategies.blogspot.com/
Further information
Please see www.artschoolalternatives.info for more information on the symposium and updates on the day’s discussions.
Laura Mansfield is currently co-editing with the ICIA, University of Bath, a publication on interdisciplinary art practice, due to be published March 2012.
Corridor8 #2 and Events
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It’s has been a long year since the launch of ‘Corridor8, Art and the Supercity’. Since then, the editorial team has been busily working away on the new issue. Due to launch this October, the ‘Borderlands’ edition, Strange Weather, extends our northern focus to the far-flung reaches of the UK from the midlands to the borders and beyond, and will feature the same mix of in-depth critical writing, profiles, art and literary writing we established in Issue 1.. Included this issue are features on the field recordings of sound recordist and ex-Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson (with free CD), Iain Sinclair’s rare audio-recorded journey from the heart of Manchester, new fiction from the Manchester University Creative Writing Centre’s Ian McGuire, interviews with the art collectors of the Norths of England and Ireland, as well as the science fiction work of artists Ivan and Heather Morrison, the pioneering 1960’s art and writing publication New Worlds and others. International curator Axel Lapp will this time assemble ‘Flash Artists’ pages we began in Issue One.
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.
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
The Manchester Contemporary
Thursday 28th through to
Sunday 31st, October
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 News
Posted on | August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 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.
Corridor8 #1 Launch July 2009
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Click here to see images taken at the launch of Corridor 8 in July 2009.
This image: A daily bread. The New Sign of Infinity, The Third Paradise. 2009.
Michelangelo Pistolette, in collaboration with the paulbradleystudio.
Part of an ongoing project involving artists with patisserie and bakery by the paulbradleystudio, aimed at raising funds for world hunger. Supported by the Arts Council.
This batch baked by Alastair from La Vecchia, York, and served at the Corridor8 launch.
Click here to see images taken by Chris Petit during his Supercity journey, May 2008, for the first Issue of Corridor 8.
Click here for Iain Sinclair shots of the SuperCity.
Click here to see Will Alsop Art.
Will Alsop’s work can be seen at a solo exhibition A Sense of Enquiry at South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre until 27th February 2010 organised by The Nightingale Project charity for bringing art into hospitals.
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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