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48 Sheet
Harry Blackett. Robin Kirkham. Lucy McLauchlan. Ian Richards. Elizabeth Rowe Digbeth, Birmingham 2 – 14 September 2010 The billboards have been speaking to me again. Their messages leaping out of the paper and infecting my brain with subliminal commands, you feel empty, you need me, this will fill that hole, desire, obey, consume… But sometimes [...]
Dead Fingers Talk
Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs IMT Unit2/210, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ 28 May – 18 July 2010 Something wordless called me to this exhibition, the dry hissing of ghost tapes echoing sibilantly around the streets. As I entered the space, a portal reached out to me, bending space [...]
Parfyme Backpack Factory
Met up with Parfyme again (We’d been in their Tent Show, and Pelle was part of Red Line Surveillance – building the mini bus shelter that’s still there). They’ve been doing a Residency in Loughborough for Radar.They travelled around the campus and further afield, getting “Ideas” in a custom made rucksack/mailbox – they were …
Radiator
I enjoyed the who watches the watchmen feel of The Office of Community Sousveillance project for Radiator festival, they gave an engaging and thought provoking presentation about the function of PCSOs in maintaining a surveillance society, and of how we can resist this in subtle ways. http://www.radiator-festival.org/office-community-sousveillance http://www.radiator-festival.org/ http://www.surfacegallery.org/ — Image from we make money [...]
[insertspace] – Conditions of Carriage
Don’t ask me how, but I’d got stuck in Nottingham one day, nothing in particular to do, but not able to leave. In a lazy, directionless mood, I fiddled with an old bus ticket, only noticing after a while a picture of a chap in naval costume on the back. He seemed to be …
Reactor Function V
Experience One I stood outside the gallery for a few moments longer than I would have normally. I’d never been to a Reactor Function event before, and despite myself I was nervous. I’d heard stories of people being taken off by shadowy figures and having unspeakable things done to them. I don’t know if …
Mobilette by Calum Stirling
You know how the first time you see an architect’s scale model it really grabs you, the perfect detail, the way it plays with your sense of scale, of reality. For Stuart, this was when he was 15, on work experience at his local council. Of course he’d seen model railways and villages, but there’s [...]
Springhill Institute artist-run-space
Springhill Institute was initially known as Springhill College when it opened for business in January 2003, providing an opportunity for local artists to meet and discuss their ideas and work. It all began with a series of informal lectures on subjects such as being a science fiction geek, keeping a dream diary, and inbreeding …
This is real life, this is Columbia
COLUMBIA by The People’s Elbow at The Springhill Institute “Do you see it? Do you see the crack?” “The crack was already there when we took off” When I first heard about the Columbia project, I got confused with the Challenger disaster and just remember thinking that I should feel as if it was a [...]