Read down – there’s a competition for free tickets later on in this post. I’m conscious that I’ve not mentioned International Dance Festival Birmingham so much on here over the past month. Partly that’s because I’ve been busy working on it and going to just about every event that I could. There’s only a couple … [Read more…]
Kino Concrète: Two Thousand Maniacs! « More Canals than Venice Basement Bar (top of New St in the city centre) have a free film night. Noted. INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Dave Juste Scene Not Heard have a natter with Dave Juste from Subculture Midlands Media Awards launched This is aimed mainly at journos. Deadline for … [Read more…]
We Are Eastside is a joint-venture of sixteen organisations, including VIVID, Eastside Projects, Ikon Eastside, The Lombard Method and 7 Inch Cinema, coordinated by Capsule, to link-up and expose the goings-on in the area, now dubbed Birmingham’s Creative Playground. Here’s what they’ve said: Underneath Eastside’s arches you’ll find a whole host of organisations making and … [Read more…]
Multi-coloured lines are starting to appear all over the place. That’s Ikon Eastside above. They’ve got plenty of things happening there. Check out the rest of the schedule too and cop some tickets. Other folks have written about what to see: Digbeth is Good – A notice for fans of Irish film, literature and that More … [Read more…]
I’m playing catch-up on this one. I’ve heard the idea of a contemporary art museum for Birmingham (or Tate Birmingham, as it’s been referred to in some quarters) mentioned in passing a few times but that’s it, so consider this a glorified links round-up as I try to find out what info has thus far … [Read more…]
As threatened previously, I did pop over to Ikon Eastside on Friday lunchtime. The current installation is by Ryoji Ikeda and is called data.tron, part of: his exploration of the infinity of data between 0 and 1, an abstraction of reality that challenges our perception of the codes present in everyday life It was quite … [Read more…]
Of all the things on last night I only made it to two out of five. I missed out on the opening of Ryoji Ikeda’s exhibition at Ikon Eastside (which I might go and catch at lunchtime today), Jordan McKenzie’s ‘Day Into Night’ at Vivid and Colour’s night at The Victoria featuring World of Fox’s … [Read more…]
Things over on Eastside are really hotting up over the next few weeks. I will be heading down Digbeth way on Friday evening for the opening of SCULPTURE SHOW – an exhibition of work by the following artists showing at Eastside Projects: Athanasios Argianas, Art & Language, Mel Bochner, Susan Collis, Michael Dean, Tatiana Echeverri … [Read more…]