an experimental season of sonics, moving image, installation and construction stimulated by the vision of J.G. Ballard.

I quite like that image above. It’s from Kibwe Tavares‘ Robots of Brixton.

Not part of that, but also coming up soon at Vivid, is Trevor Pitt’s Bang Bang:

the final in a trilogy of explosive art-parties-cum-club-nights curated by Trevor Pitt and played out at VIVID

With DJ sets from mini moderns, Brian Duffy, Mazzy (Chicks Dig Jerks) and THIS IS TMRW and experimental performance installations from Joey Vivo and Roseanna Velin, Vincent Gould, John Napier and Aby Duffty. That’s on 12 November.

anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor Pitt has devised the anticurate project as a platform to explore democratic and collective approaches to exhibition curating

Submitted artworks will be exhibited in the main gallery using a flexible exhibition structure and space that has been designed by Juneau Projects.

Each exhibition will be individually organised by invited groups that we are calling ‘anticurators’, including:

•  young people from Project Platform and Ikon Youth programme
• a group of older people from Young at Heart
• members of the Extra Special People professional development  programme at Eastside Projects
• a selection of mac birmingham staff
• Carli Frances and Rosie Carmichael of No Aloha arts collective

Located in close proximity to Victoria Square, St Phillips Cathedral (Colmore Row) and Waterloo Street the ROADWORKS will feature:

• ‘Not My Type’ by Fluid Design and collective illustrators
  Three easels will be set up and some of Birmingham’s best graphic designers will be demonstrating their skills, illustrating letters forms and numbers, as the public look on.
• ‘Camera Obscura ‘ by Arlene Burnett
  This will be a ‘walk in camera’ in a light proof garden shed, projecting an image of some of Birmingham’s impressive civic buildings onto its inside surfaces.
• ‘The Incidental Estate’ by Trevor Pitt
  A domestic, suburban garden transplanted into the city centre. A space to sit in, enjoy the flowers and consider the sense of freedom it can give you.
• Human, All too Human’ by Nat Pitt
  This is a bird spotters hide, fitted with periscopes for members of the public to view animal characters who will be appearing nearby, you may spot an owl with a pushchair, a cat traffic warden or a badger with a briefcase.
• ‘Digger’s Revival’ by Uddin and Elsey
  This artist’s duo will create a growing environment, inspired by Van Gogh’s painting of the ‘Potato Planters’, with wooden pallets, grow bags and plants. They will invite the public to take away seeds and encourage them to grow their own vegetables.

(Via Birmingham Newsroom)