Upcoming Recommended Events
Friday 12th February 2010 - Sunday 11th April 2010
Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester
Neck of the Woods is an innovative and exciting group exhibition curated by Blank Media Collective investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.
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Saturday 6th March 2010 - Friday 19th March 2010
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
The exhibition, Mine the Mountain, draws upon the artist’s personal experience at sites of historic trauma, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Majdane; Ypres and Verdun, to engage in themes of the past, the present, family history, memory and the anonymous individual in history. This sits alongside an exploration of the notion of the ‘dark tourist’ (the tourist who visits sites of trauma) and the idea of tourism of the self.
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Tuesday July 13
The discipline of photography is constantly evolving and in greenroom’s new exhibition, Angle of Refraction we are taken to see exciting advances that push this art form to new extremes. Blank Media Collective are curating this exhibition to showcase the work of Gareth Hacking and Mark Devereux who create captivating and unique images using light and photography to produce abstract, painterly images.
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Friday 30 July 2010 - Saturday 11 September 2010
Cube, Manchester
We are delighted to announce CUBE’s new transformation into a television programme, sculpture and art video courtesy of international artist Christian Jankowski. This major exhibition, “The Perfect Gallery”, is based on the idea of translating a television format into the art world and vice versa and will be launching at CUBE this summer.
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Sunday August 01
blankpages is half way to 50! All you mental arithmetic skillsters will know that means we’re on issue 25. Quite amazing really. And we keep growing and changing. Keep your eyes peeled for new opportunities within the blankpages team to be announced soon.
Returning to our fold this month is Kevin Bradshaw, after his excellent cover feature last month, he’s our guest illustrator for August!
This month we have an excellent how-to feature from Stuart Douglas of Obverse Books about starting your own small press, and we’re featuring the music of Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear, who will be performing at Kro Bar for BlankSounds, Blank Media Collective’s new quarterly live music night.
Alongside this, we’re pleased to be publishing work created at the first Imploding Acoustic Inevitable Festival in the Lake District back in June. It’s an Exquisite Corpse-style piece straight from the minds of the festival’s audience… Make of it what you will…
This is of course on top of the usual high quality poetry, fiction and visual art spotlight we tirelessly present for your digestion.
So take a minute out and relax among the clouds with blankpages...
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Thursday 9 September 2010 (6pm) - Saturday 23 October 2010
greenroom, Manchester
If you are suffering from post holiday blues then let Blank Media Collective banish them away, as they aim to keep the cold dreary Mancunian showers at bay by presenting the vibrant and contemporary work of Mario Sughi. Blank Media Collective’s new exhibition, A New Sense of Emptiness will transport you back to the lazy days of summer and make that transition to autumn that little bit easier.
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Saturday 14 August 2010 - Sunday 26 September 2010
Untitled Gallery, Manchester
Untitled Gallery presents Becoming a Memory, a new exhibition of works by Manchester-based photographer Roxana Allison. Open since May 2010, Untitled Gallery is an exhibition space in the basement of the Friends’ Meeting House, a Grade II listed building dating from 1828. Untitled Gallery opened with Untendable, a solo show of new works by New-Zealand born artist Paul Donald.
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Friday 27 August 2010 - Sunday 5 September 2010
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Why do people travel? What does it mean to be away from ‘home’? Does our idea of ‘home’ change and transmute the more we travel, or does it perhaps only come into existence when we leave the physical reality behind? Can we ever simply and unproblematically ‘return home’ after our travels, and will it be the same ‘home’ we left? How do we negotiate between our past spatial memories and the new geographical locations we find ourselves in? Last but not least, can we ever really experience a new place for the first time, outside its familiar representations in maps, guidebooks, films and news programmes?
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Friday 20 September 2010 - Wednesday 25 September 2010
Gallery 320, Bethnal Green, London
‘Private/Public’, is an exhibition exploring the concept of domestic space in a gallery context, through the work of twelve international artists, Hannah Forbes Black, Ting-Ting Cheng, Yin-Hua Chu, Sarah Churlish, Gerard Cuartero, Milena Galli, Denise Hickey, Steve Hines, Sule Kemanci, Katherine Lubar, Clare Motte and Chong Boon Pok, using various media to investigate the relationship between occupants and their homes. Questioning the relationship between domestic space and occupancy, the works included attempt to come to terms with the complex dialogue between the inhabitant and the home.
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Saturday 28 August 2010 - Saturday 2 October 2010
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
In 1962 J. G. Ballard wrote the book The Drowned World, wherein he explored a particular post-apocalyptical scenario and ideas of chaos brought on by the consequences of solar radiation and melting icecaps. Nature takes over, once again, and the world returns to a more primitive state of existence. The protagonist eventually embraces this new natural order but wrestles with the devolutionary position he finds himself in, this sharply contrasts with the determination to retain power and control by other characters. The actions of others eventually persuade the protagonist to find unity with a more organic landscape. After all, you don’t know tranquillity without knowing chaos.
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