Eastside Projects

hobbypopMUSEUM

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:39:45 +0100

A series of limited edition prints specially commissioned from artists in the exhibitions programme. All editions are exclusive to Eastside Projects, generously created by the artists for the gallery.

8) hobbypopMUSEUM Raving Gardens 2010
Each unique acrylic paint on canvas sewn onto mounting paper, 560 x 800mm, edition of 15
�150 unframed
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Curtain Show

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:45:37 +0100

Curtain Show 2010
EP8, photographs by Stuart Whipps, designed by James Langdon
Printed by Sharman & Company Ltd.
410 x 290 mm, 32 pp., b/w, pink, yellow and grey newspaper
ISBN 978-1-906753-19-1 / �4

Includes texts by Tacita Dean, C�line Condorelli and Gavin Wade, Hannah James and the script to Ines Schaber's 'Diabolic Tenant', alongside frames of reference for Curtain Show from fields of architecture and design.

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BOOK SHOW

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:50:05 +0100

BOOK SHOW
Exhibition continues 3 July � 4 September 2010

Nina Beier + Marie Lund, Ulises Carri�n, Daniel Eatock, Martino Gamper, Nina Katchadourian, Moritz Kung + Richard Venlet, Kelly Large, John Latham, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, Rollo Press, Katerina �ed� + Radim Pe�ko, Yann S�randour, Simon Starling, Werkplaats Typografie, Keith Wilson

Curated by James Langdon and Gavin Wade

Above: Ulises Carri�n, 'Self-portrait' 1979

�Book Show� is an exhibition of artworks, objects and structures that address the physical form of the book. The starting point for the exhibition is Ulises Carri�n�s provocative series of aphorisms �The New Art of Making Books� (1975). Carri�n was the founder of Other Books and So in Amsterdam, a gallery and bookstore that during its short life (1975 to 1979) became the first major centre for the flourishing international artist-led publishing scene.

Carri�n�s text establishes the specific conditions of the book as a display device:

��A book is a sequence of spaces.
��Each of these spaces is perceived at a different moment�a book is also a
��sequence of moments.
��A book is not a case of words, nor a bag of words, nor a bearer of words.
��A writer, contrary to the popular opinion, does not write books.
��A writer writes texts.

Carri�n�s perspective on the form of the book de-emphasises any inherent union between the material form of the book and its printed contents, and implies that each body of material to be made into a book must somehow be addressed to the display conditions that the book offers.

BOOK
Launch: 6�9pm, Thursday 29 July 2010

�b�ke, Vito Acconci, Tauba Auerbach, Bedford Press, Ulises Carri�n, Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, Daniel Eatock, Will Holder, Jeremy Jansen, Kelly Large, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, OK/RM, Simon Starling, Werkplaats Typografie

�Book�, functions as a mobile extension to the exhibition. Including a facsimile reprint of Ulises Carri�n�s �The New Art of Making Books� as it originally appeared in the journal Kontexts; an illustrated text by James Langdon and additional works, both existing and newly commissioned.

Keith Wilson, Library 1998, Kelly Large, A photograph of four people who helped the artist request all the low usage, YK category books whose abstracts contain the word artist in the British Library collection. Their combined weight, plus a shopping trolley filled with 33 kg, equalled the total weight of all the books requested. This weight was temporarily applied to the British Library piazza; which forms the roof of the high usage collection storage spaces underground. The image size equals the surface area of all these YK category books when placed front cover up in a rectangle. 2009

John Latham, Distress of a Dictionary 1988

Nina Beier and Marie Lund, The House and the Backdoor 2007

Fraser Muggeridge Studio, Designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio (detail) 2010

Martino Gamper, Untitled 2010, Katerina �ed� and Radim Pe�ko, Der Geist von Uhyst 2010, Ulises Carri�n, Self-portrait 1979

Martino Gamper, Untitled 2010, Katerina �ed� and Radim Pe�ko, Der Geist von Uhyst 2010

Katerina �ed� and Radim Pe�ko, Der Geist von Uhyst 2010

Katerina �ed� and Radim Pe�ko, Der Geist von Uhyst 2010

Rollo Press, Xerox Book Bootleg 2010

Werkplaats Typografie, Library Amnesty (Wanted: All missing, lost, found, overdue, borrowed, stolen, hijacked publications from the Werkplaats Typografie library. Items should be sent to Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK between 3 July and 4 September 2010. Read or Alive.) 2010

Yann S�randour, Incomplete Open Cubes 2010

Yann S�randour, Inside the White Cube (expanded edition) 2008

Daniel Eatock, Display Book Shelf 2010

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Fuck Book

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:56 +0100

Fuck Book 2009

Declan Clarke & Paul McDevitt
Published by Eastside Projects, Birmingham
ISBN -- / �20 box set Dirk & McCluffit present...

FUCK BOOK

Contemporary Artists present Tijuana Bibles - the publication is rumoured to include contributions from:

Xavier Antipa
BANK
Diann Bauer
Mona Casey
Declan Clarke
Matthias Dornfeld
Geoffrey Farmer
David Godbold
Kendell Geers
Margerita Gluzberg
Sophie von Hellermann
Lee Henderson
Paul McDevitt
Eoghan McTigue
Garret Phelan
Susan Philipsz
Gabriel Saloman & Aja Rose
Henrik Schrat
Jamie Stewart
Martin Westwood

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What is industry?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:33:49 +0100

What is industry?
Strategic Questions #25
by Keith Wilson 2009
Designed by Fraser Muggeridge, insert designed by James Langdon, published by Strategic Questions
Bound by Book Works, London
100 x 210 mm, 20 pp., various materials in an edition of 250
ISBN 978-0-955161-19-3 / �15

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Barbara Holub - Initiative Island

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:21:21 +0100

Initiative Island
by Barbara Holub 2009
EP 1.1, photography by Gavin Wade / Stuart Whipps / Barbara Holub. Designed by Cornelia Silli
Published by Eastside Projects
Printed by Remaprint, Vienna
166 x 241 mm, 32 pp., full-color, softcover
ISBN 978-1-906753-13-9 / �8

Published after the occasion of This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things. Texts by Gavin Wade and Marjolein Schaaps, includes a 664 x 482 mm fold-out map.

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Abstract Cabinet Show

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:19:13 +0100

Abstract Cabinet Show 2009
EP6, photography by Stuart Whipps / Harry Blackett / Gavin Wade. Designed by James Langdon
Printed by Sharman & Company Ltd.
410 x 290 mm, 20 pp., 12 full-colour, 8 two-colour, newspaper
ISBN 978-1-906753-17-7 / �4

Laureana Toledo & John Taylor, Mithu Sen, Support Structure, Para/Site Art Space, Heather & Ivan Morison, Magnus Quaife & David Osbaldeston, Shedhalle Zurich, Michael Takeo Magruder, Bedwyr Williams, Grizedale Arts, The Hut Project, Malgras & Naudet Contemporary Zurich, Stan�s Caf�, Freee, Daniel Salomon, Juneau Projects, Stone Canyon Nocturne, DJ Simpson, Clarke & McDevitt presents�

A hand finished, hole-punched newspaper, includes The Hut Project's Moderne Vehme, 2009, and an interview between Gavin Wade and El Lissitzky.

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Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan - Does your contemplation...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:54 +0100

Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation 2009
EP5, colour installation photographs by Stuart Whipps, all other photographs by the artists. Designed by James Langdon
Printed by Sharman & Company Ltd.
410 x 290 mm, 24 pp., 14 full-colour, 10 b/w, newspaper
ISBN 978-1-906753-16-0 / �15

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One-Day-Comic

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:56:28 +0100

Henrik Schrat One-Day-Comic 2008
Published by Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Henrik Schrat has collaborated with twelve artists to create twelve comic books. Without any previous preparation, two artists meet in the morning, and start to develop a comic strip together � to be completed in one day.
ISBN various / �2.50 each | �20 complete set

Product Clearing
Plastique Fantastique & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP1
240 x 165 mm, 24pp. full-colour, London, 07/04/2008
Read the unbelievable story of Max Mosley and how the deep darkness of consumer fetishism can lead you into the light!

Product Clearing II
a.a.s. & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP2
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 4 full-colour, 20 black and white, Birmingham, 19/08/2008
The continuation and end of the journey to salvation gives you hands-on help how to accomplish the same.

The Plant
Philippe Mairesse & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP3
240 x 165 mm, 20pp., 4 full-colour, 16 black and white, Paris/Berlin, 28/05/2008
Meet Barnaby Beaminski, Mr. Turtle and Barry, the weeping assistant. Gain insight into the solution of complex problems.

Salty Tears
Shezad Dawood & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP4
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 4 full-colour, 20 black and white, London, 01/10/2008
Krishna battles Hegel, Spiral Getty equippes a cosmic gun, and who is the miraculous Quaker man?

Knickers in a Twist
Asia Alfasi & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP5
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 4 full-colour, 20 black and white, Birmingham, 21/08/2008
Little Jill has to rescue her brother Jack and to get the ingredients for a magic potion go on an adventurous journey...

Froschschlaufe
Hans-Christian Dany & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP6
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 2 full-colour, 22 black and white, Hamburg, 29/10/2008
What would roughly translate as "Frogloop" is a mindblowing series of visual transformations in a never before-seen graphic finesse!

Stress Column
Karin Kihlberg/Reuben Henry & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP7
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 4 full-colour, 20 black and white, Birmingham/Berlin, 27/10/2008
In a timeless world where stress embodies itself and becomes defunct...

Gunpowder Joe and the bunting beggarly, brass-making, brazen-faced, brazen-hearted, blackguard, bustling, booby Birmingham mob
Simon & Tom Bloor & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP8
240 x 165 mm, 24pp., 2 full-colour, 22 black and white, Birmingham, 22/08/2008
Dr. Joseph Priestly not only invents carbonated water in this superb work, but tells us gems of unique wisdom!

Strati, Hopfl, Monthoux and the Seventeenth Plan
C�line Condorelli & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP9
240 x 165 mm, 16pp., 2 full-colour, 14 black and white, Birmingham/Berlin, 27/10/2008
That something called "organisational aesthetics" has long prepared for a total takeover of the world through art is unveiled, and leads to disturbing insights!

Disaster Casual
Olav Westphalen & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP10
240 x 165 mm, 16pp., 4 full-colour, 12 black and white, Berlin, 18/08/2008
A hard-hitting news documentary and a fairy tale combined with a really bad trip!

Hongo Crossing
Stefan Heidenreich & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP11
240 x 165 mm, 20pp., 4 full-colour, 16 black and white, Creel, 05/03/2005 / Worpswede, 23/11/2008
This epic tale of found faith and a lost cross leads us to Mexico, deep into the Sietra del Madre, and is bound to change your life forever!

Herbert & Rosa
Gavin Wade & Henrik Schrat
One-Day-Comic EP12
240 x 165 mm, 28pp., 4 full-colour, 24 black and white, Birmingham, 06/12/2008
Travel back in time to Dessau, 1925 for the tale of two nubile young lovers, strangers in the night!

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Artist's Films

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:04:15 +0100

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Artist�s Films
Gallery 2
21 February to 4 April 2009

Johanna Billing
Magical World 2005
06:12 min/loop, DVD

Magical World presents a group of children from a free after-school music club based at a rundown 1980s cultural centre in Dubrava, a suburb of Zagreb, Croatia. The work introduces us to them rehearsing �Magical World� � a song chosen by Billing and written by the Afro-American singer Sidney Barnes in 1968 for Chicago vocal group The Rotary Connection. The lyrics � a melancholic description of transformation � resonate with the transformation the relatively young country is undergoing in adapting to the European Union demands while also establishing its own fragile national identity. Billing interweaves images of the children�s performance with various views of the suburban surroundings, echoing the rude utopian awakening of the song and the potential future transformation of their lives as they sing �Why do you wake me up / From such a beautiful dream / Can�t you see that I am sleeping / So why / don�t you leave me alone / � / I live in a magical world.�

Johanna Billing (b. 1973, J�nk�ping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm.
Recent solo exhibitions include This is how we walk on the Moon, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, 2008; Forever Changes, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Keep On Doing, DCA, Dundee, 2007; Stages, Fundacio La Caiza, Barcelona; Another Album, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2007.

Courtesy of Hollybush Gardens, London.

Beatrice Gibson & Alex Waterman
A Necessary Music 2008
29:09 min/loop, HDVD

A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. The film is set on Roosevelt Island, a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge. Treating the medium of film as both a musical proposition and a proposal for collective production, A Necessary Music employs the residents of the Island as its authors and actors, gathering together texts written by them and using them to construct a script for the film. Accompanied by a fictional narration taken from Adolfo Bioy Casares� 1941 science fiction novel �The Invention of Morel�, the film deploys fiction as a tool to frame and activate its site. Self-consciously dissolving from attempted realism to imagined narrative, what begins as a process concerned with sociality becomes instead an ethnographic fiction about place and community, and an investigation into representation itself.

Beatrice Gibson (b. 1978, London) lives and works in London.
Recent projects include taxi_onomy (2005-6) an art architecture collaboration with architect C�line Condorelli; �if the route:� The Great Learning of London [A Taxi Opera] (2007), developed in collaboration with musician and composer Jamie McCarthy, partnered by ResonanceFM, Studio Voltaire, London. Gibson was studio artists in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP 2007/8, is a PhD student at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, with Eyal Weizman, and is currently artist in residence at Wiels Contemporary Art Center in Brussels.

Alex Waterman (b. 1975, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA) lives and works in New York.
He is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music, in New York he performs with Either/Or Ensemble. Waterman has made music for numerous European ballet and modern dance companies including Freiburg Ballett/Pretty Ugly, Scapino Ballet, Nederland Dans Theater III. As a curator he has organized events at Les Bains: Connective in Brussels, OT301 in Amsterdam; and The Kitchen, New York.

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