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
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
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.
Iain’s Sinclair’s talk at the launch of Corridor8, July 16th 2009
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
Iain Sinclair with Corridor8 publisher Michael Butterworth
Iain’s Sinclair’s talk at the launch of Corridor8, July 16th 2009, at Urbis Museum of the City, Manchester, was attended by a capacity audience, and had the effect of wooing Manchester’s notoriously hard to please art audience.
Iain Sinclair / Corridor8 Launch / Urbis / 16th July 2009 from Patrick Walker on Vimeo.
Film by Linda Dutton and Janine McGinnies
Sinclair’s walk, from Urbis to Ringway (Manchester Airport), conducted earlier in June formed the subject. Around which he strung a fascinating array of impressions of the city, giving the audience many original insights into its (and his) special nature. He got “hooked” on Manchester—and went on to spend the following day looking around New Islington in the nearby area of Ancoats.
Listeners to the talk were privy to a segment of Sinclair’s Northern Journey* – a project that had started in the middle of the previous year, when Sinclair was commissioned by Corridor8 to make two journeys through Will Alsop’s ‘SuperCity’ — first with filmmaker Chris Petit by car and subsequently with wife Anna by bus pass. These sections have been written up and are published in the magazine, illustrated by Petit’s and Sinclair’s photography (available from the Corridor8 Subscriptions and Orders page).
A podcast of the walk is available, written by Sinclair and read by Swen Steinhauser. A printed map carrying an Introduction by Sinclair will be available at Urbis until the end of August. As will an accompanying childrens’ activity map. Both will be then be available from the Creative Tourist website. Downloads of the map can be found on the Walk section of the Corridor8 website.
* The Northern Journey is still continuing, with new sections planned. Watch the Corridor8 news page for more announcements.
Listening for the Corncrake
Posted on | July 10, 2009 | No Comments
‘Manchester has taken possession of me for good. I cannot leave. I do not want to leave, I must not.’
W G Sebald
Image courtesy of Susie Stubbs.
‘Out of the sea-fret drizzle a phantom ship appears like one of the spectres W G Sebald mentions in his fictive memoir, The Emigrants. Ocean-going craft confirm Manchester’s status as a port by sliding down the Ship Canal, towering over terraces with dreamlike intimations of other worlds. This landlocked building, Urbis, sleek and unexpected, has turned its back on the River Irwell, to face the town and its compact, self-contained centre.’ Iain Sinclair
To accompany the launch of Corridor8, Iain Sinclair was commissioned by the magazine to conduct a walk through Manchester. Taking a route from Urbis to the edge of the city, Sinclair’s walk has been adapted and edited into an audio walk read by theater maker Swen Steinhauser. Walking through the city listeners can contemplate Sinclair’s poetic, illuminating and (at times) wry text.
This audio walk, titled Listening for the Corncrake, is now available at Urbis (where iPods, loaded up with the talk, are available on loan). Or you can download the walk yourself here.
With this audio walk, listeners will be able to retrace Sinclair’s footsteps, seeing Manchester through the eyes of this renowned psychogeographer. An accompanying map and introduction to the walk is also available for download. The walk itself, and Sinclair’s text, offers a sneak preview of a major new work based in the North that the author is currently planning.
Download Adult map “Listening to the Corncrake” here
Corridor8 has also created a special children’s activity version of the map, available all summer from the Urbis website – and which literally maps out an engaging, fact-filled walk through the city.
Sinclair walk and map curated by Laura Mansfield for Corridor8.
Maps designed by Studio Dust.
Childrens’ activity map illustrated by Sally Renshaw.
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