MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER 19-21 MAY MIDDLESBROUGH 2017 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 2 3 Welcome. M.G.C.A. Over the next twenty pages you will be able to delve into the Teesside art scene, getting a vast impression of its strength and diversity. To coincide with the amazing work already happening in Teesside, the #MAW curators, Liam Slevin and Paul Stewart, have invited North of England based artist collectives, as well as a selection of internationally based artists, to come and exhibit. This, tied in with a wealth of talks, workshops, performances and general tomfoolery, will have you spoilt fo choice over the weekend. So continue reading, book the workshops, see some art, have a chinwag and get stuck in. The Dispersed Gallery Curated by Paul Stewart and Liam Slevin Middlesbrough Gallery Of Contemporary Art 31, 55-57, 65 Albert Rd. Middlesbrough TS1 Welcome to Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2017. Fri 10am - 5pm Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 10am - 3pm Adam Gibney // Amanda Beech // Benjamin Busch //Fiona Kelly // Milos Trakilovic // Oran O’Reilly // Richard Forrest // Shirin Fahimi // Wolfgang Bittner The Middlesbrough Gallery of Contemporary Art is a tongue-in-cheek popup gallery to coincide with the Middlesbrough Art Weekender. Hosting nine international artists across three sites, M.G.C.A. seeks out new territories for a dispersed gallery. The work on show will include video, sculpture, print and installation. The curatorial framework of the Dispersed Gallery proposes an overarching theme, the dispersed experimental gallery, which offers an alternative way to navigate the shows as if they were parts of a deconstructed gallery programme. The suggestion is that between pop-up sites and existing public institutions and galleries, the Weekender can offer a middle-ground in Middlesbrough of the practices from within, and those which have been brought into the town. Continuing on with the theme of physical navigation all the invited artists, in some way, have considerations in their practices about movement, bodies, spatiality, language and communication. All of these themes are rooted in how social and physical navigation is undertaken and reflects the thematic of the Weekender to consider a re-navigation of a town as a gallery. What the Weekender is presenting is a possible route to demonstrate Middlesbrough to a larger stage as the creative and critical space that it is. #MAW team Contents 2 7 9 11 15 A Exhibition Exhibitions Collectives Art Trail Events Workshops The M.G.C.A. will also host a number of workshops through out the weekend and act as the festival hub and information booth. 1 2 mima Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ B Exhibition Fri / Sat 10am - 4:30pm Sun 12 - 4pm Platform A Middlesbrough Train Station Middlesbrough TS1 1EG C Exhibition Fri 10am - 4pm Sat 10am - 4pm ABC of Racist Europe Daniela Ortiz Category Error Sarah Tulloch // Katy Cole // Annie O Donnell The Peru-born, Spain-based artist Daniela Ortiz draws on her own experience as an immigrant to examine national and international migratory control systems. In Middlesbrough, Ortiz has led workshops with people seeking asylum, particularly single mothers and their pre-school children, to deal with some of the issues they face, from racism to perceptions around the ‘refugee crisis’. The exhibition gives a platform to these concerns, and the featured pieces include a children’s book that challenges stereotypes associated with migration as well as documents, recordings of lectures, films and paintings depicting scenic views of border territories. Category Error situates artists as initiators in the search for identity and attachment in an ongoing period of displacement and uncertainty. It continues the tradition of collage as a strategy for cultural critique and for making connections and transformations across geographical, political and social differences. The exhibition project was initiated by Sarah Tulloch as part of an ACE grant to complete her first artist’s book, ObjectImage, with American publishers, Daylight Books. Alongside the publication launch, Sarah was keen to work with other North East artists with similar concerns over an extended period, to produce new bodies of work for public exhibition. Stephen Willats // Human Right Through the use of the cut-out and sculptural assemblage, the artists of Category Error examine idiosyncratic ways of working, both individually and collaboratively, where making and exhibiting become research tools to examine parochial, subjective approaches to ‘collage practice’ itself. The artists deliberately employ category ‘errors’ that blend abstraction with the figurative, parts with the whole, and thinking with making. These ideas have been forming over a period of several months via investigations into their shared roots in movements from Dada to Arte Povera and Arte Útil. Stephen Willats examines connections between personal narratives and social conditions through themes of class and power. He looks at how individuals produce their subjectivity vis-à-vis reality, and how their experience of the world is shaped by systems of interdependent relations. Two decades ago Willats collaborated with the Middlesbrough Art Gallery on a project involving several organisations in the town, from the library to the mosque. For this exhibition he returned to Middlesbrough to work with local community developers on a new project. This new project is put into context with pieces created since the late 1970s. This selection focuses on problems faced by people during their everyday lives, challenges of modern society that might compromise their civil rights. Human Right continues in locations between the museum and Parliament Road. Please pick up a flyer to read more. On view until 4 June. Photography for personal use only due to copyright restrictions. Please speak to a member of staff for further information. 3 SubLime The School of Design, Culture & the Arts Teesside University, D Exhibition SubLime celebrates and showcases the work of our graduating students in Fine Art, Design, History, English and Performing Arts. For more information or to book to attend an event please visit www.tees. ac.uk/sublime Opening – Sublime – Teesside University, School of Design, Culture & the Arts Degree Shows 2017 Fine Art, Design, History 23rd May 2017 Athena building, Teesside University 4 The House of BlahBlah Exchange House, Exchange Square Middlesbrough TS1 E Exhibition Fri 10am - 4:00pm Sat 10am – 5pm Python gallery Royal Middleshaven House, Gosford Street Middlesbrough TS2 1BB G Exhibition Fri 8:30am - 5pm Bright Boys Camille Rouzaud // Harry Garrens Rhythm and Hues David Griffiths Reflecting the vibrancy of youth culture, New York based Camille and Middlesbrough’s finest Harry Garrens will showcase their body of exploratory street photography, based around juvenile freedom, nomadic civilizations, space and details of cultures. For Rhythm and Hues, David Griffiths presents digital artworks that are a blend of true representation and stylistic interpretation. Offering unique and vibrant multi-dimensional images that merge between reality and abstraction, his work captures the natural world, dynamic shapes from architecture and emotion from portraiture. Lost Boys Gemma Tierney // KA Bird // Stephen Irving An exhibition by KA Bird, Stephen Irving and Gemma Tierney, three members of the #MAW team. Bringing their work together especially for this exhibtion sees the artists in an exploration of collaboration and curation, blending together each of their individual styles. Felix Gallery Bridge St W (above Club Bongo) Middlesbrough TS2 1BJ F Exhibition Opening Thurs 18th Sat 11am - 4pm Phil Gatenby // Bobby Benjamin // Charlie Howard Arts organization Dovetail Joints present the latest exhibition at their transient space, Felix the Gallery. Housed above Middlesbrough’s legendary Club Bongo International, ‘Felix...’ will play host to an experimental exhibition of new and unseen paintings by Phil Gatenby. The exhibition will also feature an ensemble of other painters across a range of styles and techniques. Included in this is a preview of the new collection by innovator and founder of the gallery, Bobby Benjamin, and work by Flowermouth’s Charlie Howard. Gatenby himself will be present to act as host. 5 In his artwork he also explores the complex aspects of perspective and dimension combined with vibrant and dynamic colours blended with the subtle use of light, shadow and reflections. David Griffiths will be presenting a talk on his work on Friday 4:30pm - 5:30pm at Python Gallery Off The Ground 63 Grange Rd. Middlesbrough, TS1 5AS H Exhibition Fri/Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 10am - 4pm In Flight Entertainment Bobzilla An exhibition of mixed-scale paintings, the next step forward from his paintings and murals within the built environment. An adventurous artist, illustrator/designer living and working in Gateshead, UK creating works in a variety of media using the main subject of birds as a metaphor for freedom. Tunnel Gallery Train Station, Albert Rd. Middlesbrough TS1 1EG I Exhibition Fir/Sat/Sun 8am - 10pm Please see gallery for more information 6 Shy Bairns J Dundas House, 41 Dundas St Middlesbrough TS1 1HR Exhibition Fri/Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 10am - 3pm Slugtown 65 Albert Rd. (Side entrance, above Optical Express) Middlesbrough TS1 1NG L Exhibition Fri/Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 10am - 3pm Erin Blamire // Eleanor Beth Haswell // Georgia Gibson // Izzy Kroese Matt Antoniak // Oaktamtantin Shy Bairns is a multi-disciplinary collective specialising in DIY arts publications. They aim to gather Northern creatives together on one platform to showcase their works. Due to a lack of resources and funding, accessible northern gallery spaces are limited; Shy Bairns has therefore created a platform that does not rely on institutional support for the promotion of artists. Slugtown is an off-site project run by members of the artist collective M I L K. Based in a residential property in Newcastle upon Tyne, Slugtown provides the opportunity of solo exhibitions for emerging and early-career artists. Slugtown is run by Matt Antoniak, James Hindle, Max Lee, Joe Shaw, Matt Wilkinson. Over the Weekender, Shy Bairns will work with artists and visitors to produce works about the North East. Artists involved will work in a range of mediums, including illustration, collage and textiles. Their aim is to interact with the public as much as possible to make a collaborative creative space. The work produced will then be edited and printed live by one of the team members. On Sunday the publication will be finalized and launched, showcasing the work and giving the public an opportunity to receive a copy. Matt Antoniak’s work broadly concerns the idea of identity. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Antoniak is interested in how identity can be constructed, distorted and warped – particularly in a post-internet world. Scans, photocopies and photographs are used and layered to create imagery that often distances the original reference material. For Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Antoniak will show a number of new paintings concerned with these ideas. Broken Grey Wires Central Halls, 108A Borough Rd. Middlesbrough TS1 2HJ K Exhibition Fri/Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 10am - 3pm Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Lizz Brady // David Shrigley // Kirsty Harris // Paul Digby David Sherry The Auxiliary 55-57 Albert Rd, Middlesbrough TS1 M Exhibition Fri/Sat 10am - 6pm Sun 10am - 3pm Tomie Seo // Anyse Ducharme // Shan Shan Broken Grey Wires is a contemporary art organisation responding to and exploring mental health, philosophy, psychology and everything in between. They work closely with the community, critically acclaimed artists and major institutions, to open up a dialogue and provide inspiration and opportunities for people with mental health difficulties. Renowned psychiatrist R.D Laing proclaimed that “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.” Over the weekend, Broken Grey Wires will create a space for people to feel comfortable and participate in the project, for art to become a facilitator for recovery, and for Broken Grey Wires to encourage people to make something special for themselves. 7 The Auxiliary Project Space will host a pop-up open studio where the public can come and see the work of three artists that are currently undertaking the artist-in-residence programme at The Auxiliary. The work on show will be across a number of disciplines including drawing, painting, sound and vr technologies. 8 Art Trail Exhibition Art Trail Artists Art Trail firmly makes its mark on the town with a wealth of Northeast talent spread across Middlesbrough. In the wardrobe of a hotel room, on the wall of a condemned building, an empty office, the windows of a take-away, a tattooists, hairdressers, vintage shop, coffee shop, bookshop; Art Trail is unveiled in every and any place that will give it a home. It is there for you to look at, think about, talk about, to agree or disagree with. The local businesses that have kindly given these art works a temporary home invite you to come in and enjoy a pint or a coffee, browse the bookshelves or clothes rails. Once you’ve had a gander, tell us what your favourite piece is, and at the end of the festival we’ll count up the votes and award the winner £300, kindly sponsored by Leinster Property Services. 01 Ritchard Allaway 02 Larry Walker Tonks 03 Paul Grady 04 Phillip Larry 05 Lewis Robinson 06 Namita Vijayakumar 07 Irene Godfrey 08 Thomas Tyler 09 Ross Cummings 10 Emma Bennett 11 Lesley Hicks 12 Katie Tomlinson 13 Jenni Dixon 14 Sophie Dobson 15 Kathryn Lund 16 Alan Vest 17 Charlie Wood 18 Abby Pearce 19 Linda Stannard 20 Eleanor Beth Haswell 21 Georgia Gibson 22 Amy Phillips 23 Cody Sowerby 24 Hazel Dixon 25 Iku Tsuchiya Various locations See Map With 41 works spread over 24 sites around Middlesbrough, grab the map from the centre of this program and get hunting! Art Trail happened thanks to the co-operation of those who graciously gave the works you will see this weekend a home. To all of the business owners, landlords and estate agents who made Art Trail possible, thank you. Lazy Joes // The Twisted Lip // Disgraceland // Fahrenheit Books // Alien Comics // Dundas House // Saks Hairdressers // Anthony James Hairdressers // Gallaghers Hairdressers // Songbird Bakery // Triads Clothesware // Enigma tattoo studio // Dark Circle tattoo studio //The Southfield Bar // Pops hairdressers // Goodbody’s eaterie // The Fork in the Road // The Chairman // All Saints Church // Holiday Inn Express // Prudential House // Alta Ego 9 26 Janice Downs 27 Theresa Easton 28 Michael Wilson 29 Mark Carr 30 Abby Ollet 31 Sarah Cooney 32 Jenna Moore 33 Stephen Sproates 34 Stacey Davidson 35 Abigail Lagden 36 Maureen McAdams 37 Anthony Crammen 38 Matthew Young 39 Emily Birkett 40 Eamonn McGovern 41 Deb Covell 10 Opening Event Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ Event Fri 6pm - 10pm Free to attend Opening @ mima with performances by Harold Offeh and Omsk Social Club ft. PUNK IS DADA. The Smeltry will be providing nourishment, with music by a special guest. Harold Offeh//Industry is a Drag. Offeh, known for his spontaneous and dynamic performances, here playfully uses objects associated with Middlesbrough’s industrial heritage as a starting point to explore the dynamics of work, labour, gender and masculine power. The performance further explores Offeh’s interest in using the body, durational actions and popular music to activate histories and archival materials. Omsk Social Club feat Dada is Dead//Spiritual Vandalism A new media performance commissioned for the festival investigating the relationship between communities and speculative sites of emotive politics. Omsk Social Club.... has developed a performative experience that looks to unpick ideas of survival and sensory experience through a motif of interventions that question both self-design and couture culture embedded in our 21st century psyche. The performance attempts to engage the audience whilst simultaneuosly treating them as obstacles. Dancers and a spoken word/slang narrative will produce a rhythmic experience of a moving tumblr feed Throughout the performance Omsk attempts to engage subvert the environment to look deeper into our relationships between our digital and physical selves. 11 Chew The Cud Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ Event Fri/Sat/Sun 1pm - 2:30pm In an age where communication can be whittled down to an emoji, we want to bring it back to a good old fashioned chin wag. Over the weekend, The Smeltery will host Chew the Cud, where artists, patrons, the public, passers-by and anyone with an interest can come and share some delicious slow cooked food in an informal setting. Talk, listen, engage, ponder or applaud whatever comes up over the course of a meal. The table is open to all so don’t be shy. As Middlesbrough Art Weekender’s culinary partner, The Smeltery will also be offering lunch deals to visitors of the festival. For more details, visit www.middlesbroughartweekender.com, or just ask at the café. The Smeltery is run by Luke Harding of the award winning The Waiting Room restaurant. It cooks slow, using seasonal ingredients, as well as serving locally produced beers, liquors and soft drinks. Atelier - GM Rowbotham Holiday Inn Express Middlesbrough Albert Rd, Middlesbrough TS1 2PQ Event Fri/Sat 12pm - 6pm Sun 12pm - 3pm Holiday Inn Express Middlesbrough – Centre Square is proud to host George Rowbotham for Middlesbrough Art Weekender. The hotel Business Centre will be transformed into a typical designer atelier all weekend, showcasing George’s bespoke pieces. The designer and his assistants will be working on pieces over the weekend, from beading, appliqué and hand finishing to the illustration and design development that typically occurs on a bespoke order. Feel free to drop in, speak with George and his team about the products, the craftsmanship and the values that have inspired this unique haute couture experience. 12 Open Studio Event Platform Arts & Gilkes Street Artists See C & G on the map Sat 10am - 4pm Free to attend Come sneak a peak at what happens behind the scenes at Platform Arts and Gilke Street Artists. On Saturday between 10 - 4pm the artists will be on standby to answer any questions or inquires about the work. Platform Arts Tony Charles // Lorraine Brown // Eamonn Mcgovern // Andrew Mckeown Simon Mckeown // Steve Simpson // Frances Julie Whitelaw // Amy Bean Alistair Foulton // Claire Harrison Gilke Street Artists Emma Bennett // Jenni Thirlwell // John Wheeler // Leanne Jackson // Dot Seddon // Dianne Bowell // Brain Russell // Ray Husband FEED #5 The House of Blah Blah Exchange House, Middlesbrough TS1 1DB Event Sat 7pm - 11pm Pay £5 - £8 (You Decide) Cursus (Chris Whitehead) // Haremeggedon // Laura Hunt Plastiglomerate & Monocrete // More TBA Video installation by Aimee Suggitt A night of drone, ambient and noise music. FEED is a nomadic series of experimental sound & music events organized and curated by Thomas Tyler and Liam Slevin. Synth beasts in synth engines in synth fields in synth caves Middlesbrough Train Station Albert Rd. TS2 1AH Event Sun 9am - 11am Free to attend A new 3 channel audio work by Áine O’ Dwyer, commissioned by The Middlesbrough Art Weekender. Synth beasts in synth engines in synth fields in synth caves was created while O’Dwyer was on residency at the Auxiliary Project Space in Stockton-on-Tees. Utilizing the organ at All Saints Church, Middlesbrough, and the acoustic space of the train station, O’Dwyer has created an intense, beautiful, listening event. 13 3Sided Football Centre Square (outside mima) Event Sun 1pm - 3pm Free to attend 3sided football was conceived in the 1960s by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn. In this game, three, not two, teams would strive on a hexagonal pitch, collaborating rather than merely competing, and agreeing amongst themselves what was allowable and not allowable, rather than being controlled by an outside force. In other words: no rules, no refs. Sign up at [email protected] Rules; (So much for no rules!) 1. Scoring A team does not count the goals it scores, only the goals it concedes. The winner is the team that concedes the fewest goals. 2. Throw-ins / goal-kicks / corners On the hexagonal pitch, each team has two sides of the six-sided pitch: the side with the goal (the ‘backside’) and the side opposite to your goal (the ‘frontside’). If the ball goes out on one of your two sides, you get the throwin / goal-kick. If it went out off you, the throw-in or corner goes to the team whose own goal is nearest to where the ball went out. 3. Referees While there is a temptation to have no referees with the following dictat in mind: ‘The game deconstructs the mythic bi-polar structure of conventional football, where an us-and-them struggle mediated by the referee mimics the way the media and the state pose themselves as “neutral” elements in the class struggle’, the match will have two referees, able to make discerning philosophical judgements. 4. Duration of match Ideally, teams will play until people get bored, start to wander off, fall asleep etc: however, three thirty-minute ‘halves’ with teams rotating goals would work well. Curatorial Talk Various locations Starting point: 55-57 Albert Rd. Event Sat 11am - 12pm Free to attend Walk through of the main exhibition space and pop-up sites with the curators. 14 Dinohugs: Drawing for Kids Middlesbrough Town Library Albert Rd. TS1 2QJ Workshop Sat 10:30am - 12pm Free to attend but booking required Dinosaurs need hugs too! Artist and writer Stephen Irving will lead this workshop, where children under ten and their parents are invited to hear Stephen read from his book, Dinohugs, and then draw and colour their own creations. There will be a competition with a chance for your drawings to be included within Stephens next book. All materials are provided. Admission: FREE but ticketed. Book through Event brite. Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. Drop-in Workshops 55 - 57 Albert Rd. Middlesbrough TS1 Workshop Sat 12pm - 4pm Free to attend Here kids have an opportunity to drop in to M.G.C.A., to engage with the work and give their own interpretation through a series of informal workshops and events that will take place throughout the afternoon, including chalk drawing, working with shadows - and you could even make your very own speaker! Suitable for 6 +. Please note that children under ten years of age will need to be accompanied by an adult. T-shirt making Workshop Central Halls, 108A Borough Rd. Middlesbrough TS1 2HJ Workshop Sat 1pm - 2pm Free to attend Lizz Brady from Broken Grey Wire (see exhibitions) will be hosting a t-shirt making workshop. The workshop will be looking at social media, focusing on the idea that we can each live a double life though our social media accounts, which can have a negative impact on our own and other people’s mental health. With social media new feeds full of positive, smiling, fun looking pictures, it is easy to forget that everybody goes through times of struggle and we are not alone. For the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to draw or write their own authentic ‘status update’ on their t-shirt. This could be something they have always wanted to say out loud; a secret, an opinion, an inspiration, a judgement, a dream or a desire. All t-shirts will be documented with a Polaroid photograph, with the creators name under their picture, and displayed on the wall, thus becoming part of the exhibition. 15 Tim Shaw / Ambulation Various locations Starting point: mima Workshop Sun 11am - 12pm Pay what you decide Ambulation ‘to walk or move from place to place’ Incorporating performance, walking and field recording, Tim Shaw offers a sound responsive journey through Middlesbrough, immersing the audience in a familiar yet abstracted environment. During a guided walk through a specially chosen area of the city, participants will receive an audio feed of live recordings, locational radio broadcasts and electromagnetic energy from their immediate environment through a pair of wireless headphones. Sounds are processed, layered and re-introduced live by Tim using a selection of listening technologies and a variety of different microphones. A live improvisation with the immediate soundscape that plays with memory, intuition and impulse - unique each time it is performed. Tim Shaw has worked internationally as an artist, performer and sound designer. His practice incorporates diverse approaches to sound capture and processing, and includes creating site responsive performance installations. His compositional methods include field recordings, synthesized sounds and live electronics, providing a wide scope for creative diversity. Nude Life Drawing Class Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ Workshop Sun 12:30pm - 3:30pm £10 This session is an opportunity to develop your skills and confidence working with a nude life model. All classes are devised and delivered by artist Jackie Steven. For those aged 14 and over. Cost: £10.00, materials included. Booking is essential from the mima reception desk or website. www.visitmima.com 16 This festival has been put together on the back of a lot of hard work, support from a vast array of people and a fair share of luck. We would also like to extend a massive thank you to the #MAW project assistants. No task seemed too hard or too strange for their mettle. Thanks to KA Bird, Gemma Tierney and Stephen Irving, and to all the invigilators. The following businesses and individuals have been absolutely amazing and we would like to extend a genuine and heartfelt thanks. Off the Ground // Lazy Joes // The Twisted Lip // Disgraceland// Fahrenheit Books // Alien Comics // David at Dundas House // Saks Hairdressers // Anthony James Hairdressers // Gallaghers Hairdressers // Songbird Bakery // Triads Clothesware // Enigma tattoo studio // Dark Circle tattoo studio //The Southfield Bar// Pops Hairdressers // Goodbody’s eaterie // Fork in the Road // The Chairman // Alta Ego Richard at Dodds and Brown // Peadar Byrne // Ruth Cull at Middlebrough Central Library // Toni Bainbridge // Creative Bloom // Jane at Goodbody’s // Garry at Triads // Anne Besford // Phil Douglas // Vicky Holbrough // Nicola Parkin // Peter Neal // Luke at The Smeltery // Sally Pearson // Kate Densham // Jill Morgan // Sharon Patterson // Darren Vipond // Michael Lent // Alistair Hudson // Eleanor Morgan // Julie Marsden // Tim Carter // Mark Hill // Fr. Glynn Holland // Bobby Benjamin // Emma Bennet // Jenni Thirlwell // Tony Charles // Keren Pearson // James Byrne // Leinster Property Services
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