Blank Media Collective

[Recommends] Call for Artists: Exhibition Opportunity ‘Latitude’

Thursday 26th Aug 2010

To complement its small but growing collection of 20th Century maps of Manchester & Salford, the manchester modernist society invite artists, designers and makers to submit work during the Chapel Street Open 2010, for inclusion in ‘LATITUDE’, an exhibition of artist mapmaking.

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[Recommends] WritingLAB

Thursday 19th Aug 2010

WritingLAB is for aspiring writers who love theatre and writing but may not be quite sure where to start. Run by award winning playwright, Billy Cowan, WritingLAB will help you generate workable ideas, teach you how to structure a play, create three dimensional characters, and write dynamic dialogue.

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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] The Drowning World: Dan Davis, Michelle McKeown, Terry Shave

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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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Private/Public

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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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Home and Away

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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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Roxana Allison Becoming a Memory

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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Upcoming Event: A New Sense of Emptiness, Mario Sughi

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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blankpages Issue 25

Sunday 1st Aug 2010

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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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] The Perfect Gallery, Christian Jankowski

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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