The grand restoration continues at the Coniston Institute, initiated by Grizedale Arts. We will be contributing to the revamp by leading on a new honesty shop for the village, collecting local grown produce in swill baskets. We are also pleased to be designing signage for the County Council library (colour scheme and shelving by Liam Gillick).
In other news, we are currently designing/printing …ment, Issue 3, which will be launched in Berlin on 26 April and available worldwide shortly thereafter.
Our Curwen Press wallpaper, re-drawn and printed after a 1930 design by Edward Bawden, is included in an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Society, London, opening tomorrow and continuing until 31 August. The wallpaper will form a backdrop for other works in the show, organised by Ruth Claxton and Cheryl Jones. Contributing artists include Helen Brown, Chris Clinton, Mark Essen, Juneau Projects, Kelly Large, Joanne Masding, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Rowe, Matt Westbrook and Stuart Whipps.
The exhibition opening is Monday 12 March, 6.30–8.30pm. Click here for more information.
Visit the V&A website for more information about the original wallpaper design.
We have been working with Flatpack Festival this year to design their programme, which you can find in various spaces in Birmingham in the next couple of weeks. Customary tote bags, t-shirts and stickers to follow. The festival runs 14–18 March.
On Friday 24 February there was the launch of ‘The Potential for Windows and Scale’, a publication produced to accompany an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Society, organised by Sovay Berriman, Lucy Drane and Hannah James, it also includes contributions from Laura Mansfield, Suzanne Mooney and Marie Toseland.
In March we will be in residence with Adam Smythe at the New Art Gallery Walsall, researching and rethinking a new cycle of ‘Countersituation’. The residency is organised by New Art Gallery Walsall and Extra Special People, as part of their ‘Group Occupation’ programme.
‘The Most Cool Books’ is being shown in ‘Viewing Room’, organised by L.I.E (Library of Independent Exchange), Plymouth, from 6 to 24 February. Opening event 8 February, 5–7.30pm.
We are producing a short-run publication to coincide with Wysing Arts’ forthcoming group exhibition, ‘The Starry Rubric Set’. The show considers classical astrology as a device to bring together new works made by artists who were in residence at Wysing during 2011 and to introduce the three themes of their 2012 programme: The Cosmos, The Mirror and The Forest. The exhibition (and publication) launch is 4 February, 6-8pm.
Join us at X Marks the Bökship on Thursday 2 February, 7–9pm, for the London launch of The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection by Lytle Shaw. To feature martinis, muzak and reading.
We have donated a print edition from last year to the fundraiser happening at Vinyl Art Space, Birmingham, on 14 December, 6–10pm. The space is organised by Andre de Jong, a BA student at BIAD; all funds go towards their 2012 degree show. The auction includes donated works by Ruth Claxton, The Hut Project, Stuart Whipps, Elizabeth Rowe, Joanne Masding, Juneau Projects et al. No reserve on ours. Bidding opens this Wednesday, email info@vinylartspace.com if you can’t make it in person.
We can now offer a couple of publications for sale online: Lytle Shaw’s ‘The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection’ is £8 + shipping, here; Curwen Sans type specimen is £15 + shipping, here. Delivery by Royal Mail.
As the result of a six-week residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, we are pleased to be taking part in ‘The Department of Overlooked Histories’, a group exhibition with Ruth Beale, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, and Emma Smith. The opening event is 12 November, 2–8pm, and the exhibition continues to 27 November, 2011.
We are contributing a book [‘Design Methods’ by John Christopher Jones, 1993 edition] to ‘Anti-Library’ at SPACE Studios, London. The Anti–Library collection will be displayed within an environment developed by Fay Nicolson and Oliver Smith, in which all the books and accompanying short texts submitted by participating artists will be available to handle and read. The project runs from 4 November to 17 December 2011.
We will present an 80mph intertitles-led evaluation of three years of Eastside Projects on Friday 28 October, midday.
This Thursday is the opening of ‘Community without Propinquity’, an exhibition, film programme and research lab at MK Gallery Project Space, organised by Inheritance Projects. We’ve designed some furniture for the space (fabricated by Matt Foster at Queen & Crawford) and are producing an accompanying publication with AND Publishing.
The exhibition runs from 7 October to 27 November 2011, the preview is 6 October, 6–8pm. The publication is due in November.
We are currently on residency at The Institute of Beyond, Department of Overlooked Histories at Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, from September to November.
We are pleased to be launching ‘The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection’ by Lytle Shaw at The Event 2011, running from 21–30 October. The publication continues Shaw’s research into the Chadwicks, ‘a family of connoisseurs, dandies and amateur historians’, focusing on Clifford, a mid-twentieth century American anthropologist and spy, who in the late 1960s went ‘underground’.
The book will be available from Minerva Works/Grand Union, The Lombard Method, Eastside Projects and elsewhere throughout the festival. Visit the festival website for more info about The Event.
We’ve made a contribution to the Book Works fictional archive, ‘Make the Living Look Dead’, on show at Spike Island from 16 September to 9 October as part of ‘Again, A Time Machine’.
‘Soon All Your Neighbours Will Be Artists’ is a publication edited by members of the artist-led groups Aid & Abet, Cambridge; Extra Special People, Birmingham; Spike Associates, Bristol; WARP, Cardiff. We designed and produced the book, which is launched on 10 September at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, as part of the day-long event ‘Exhaustion & Exuberance’.
We will be taking part in GALERIE8′s ‘A/ffair of Publishing’, running from 23–24 July. ‘The Most Cool Books’ will be part of a film programme on Saturday evening, and across Saturday and Sunday (12–5pm both days) we will be presenting Countersituation. GALERIE8, 195–205 Richmond Road, London E8 3NJ.
Visit The Event’s new website for details about the contemporary art festival’s fundraiser auction due to take place on 24 June 2011. All monies raised go to preparation of the festival, and Japan’s Tsnumai Appeal. The auction includes works by Florin Ungureanu, Ryan Gander, Jamie Shovlin, and many more, you can preview the collection here. Bids can be made online in advance, and on the night. For more info.
‘Countersituation’ can be found at cs.anendlesssupply.co.uk.
From next week we will be participating in M.’.M.’.M.’. at Apiary Projects, London, alongside Daniel Jones, Gareth Owen Lloyd, Pavilion and Richard Hards and Tamsin Snow. The show is—roughly speaking—about plot devices, spacetime and cults, and is curated by Dave Charlesworth. Our font ‘Lunar’, drawn after some cast iron signage in Ladywood, will be applied across the exhibition and its ephemera. The show opens on 14 June and continues until 15 July, open Wednesday to Friday, 12–5pm.
Next week from 17 to 21 May we are in Business As Usual, a group exhibition in Norwich curated by Kiln Projects.
Then in June we have a solo exhibition at International Project Space within their Reading Room section. ‘Countersituation’ will be showing 13 June to 16 July.
We are back at Grizedale Arts working on their online archive and various other ‘about the house’ projects, as well as progressing the idea for a new typeface for the Coniston Institute.
Again, A Time Machine
A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts
The Happy Hypocrite — Say What You See
Co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco
Thursday 31 March, 6.30–10pm
Featuring: a.a.s., Phil Baber, Harry Blackett, Helen Brown, chris+keir, Ben Dawson, Gene-George Earle & Ross Gillard, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kelly Large, Hanne Lippard, Apexa Patel, Nathaniel Pitt, Adam Smythe, Stinky Wizzleteat, Marie Toseland
Drawing on the methodology of one of the sections from the Happy Hypocrite, An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco present a series of artists’ readings and spoken word performances.
Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR
0121 771 1778 / www.eastsideprojects.org
We are pleased to be a part of Open Books, a project by Department 21 and Manystuff. The exhibition opens tonight and continues through Sunday 27 February at the Royal College of Art, London.
At 1pm on Sunday 23 January we will present ‘The Most Cool Books’, 2011, at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, for the PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair. It’s all books on umm art and design, err, rated on whether they’re cool or whatever.
From midday to 8pm today we will be producing a series of prints that re-assign, or end, the name ‘An Endless Supply’ as part of Dense Cluster at Bristol Diving School.
Copies of An Endless Supply #12a are in stock at Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
We will be producing tea towels and curating a week-long video programme at Tether next week, and will present an afternoon event there on Saturday 6 November.
Harry had a good time djing at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham this afternoon. For those that were and weren’t there, you can relive his sets online, here and here.
We are designing an essay by Rebecca Bibby as part of “Ultra High Temperature”, to be printed, performed and presented at Eastside Projects.
We will be working at Grizedale Arts for a week, helping Maria Benjamin to catalogue their library.