Music
Monday 1st Mar 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen, blankpages is 20! Can you believe it? We've emerged from our teens with bright, hungry eyes, and yours should be too – the treats we have in store for you this month!
Our cover art, from Adam Booth, is an image from Blank Media Collective's second exhibition of the year (and it's only March!) - 'Seeing and Being Seen' at the greenroom in Manchester - showing until 10th April.
Showcased poetry this month is from Adam Hyde, an artist based in Dudley, whose poetry is natural and beguiling, with a wonderful shade of e.e. cummings. Anna Percy chooses the English legend of the Selkie in this month's fiction, an intriguing vehicle for transformational metaphor, and Lisa Denyer shares her utopian magical landscapes in this month's artist's spotlight.
Our roving reporter, Elaine Wilson returns this month reviewing Nine Doors by Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra, who also supply this month's psychotically aching mp3 'Starved Dog'.
On top of all this, blankpages catches up with the brains behind Sixty_six_events, a 24-hour global participatory art happening that challenged the very notions of performance, to share some of their inspirations and footage they have so far received from the event.
Compelling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree!
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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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Monday 1st Feb 2010
Productofboy / Vicky Miller / Cristina Nualart / Andrew Gilmore / TAPE / Javier Muñoz / Elaine Wilson
Brrrrrrrr! Come in! Leave your umbrella and wellies at the door! Welcome to February's blankpages – your digital blanket of creative warmth.
Our cover art this month is by Productofboy, one of the exhibitors at Blank Media Collective's Neck of the Woods exhibition at Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester. They are a group of artists from Newcastle and Manchester, exploring perceptions of environment and urban space utilising text, video, photography, sound, electronics, installation composition and performance
Andrew Gilmore returns to our pages this month with a short story – a strange journey through a paranoid imaginative landscape, coupled with bespoke illustration from Michael Thorp.
'iFear' by TAPE is this month's mp3 – an up-tempo, hook driven beast of a track that should get your heart racing.
Poetry this month is singularly female - Vicky Miller and Cristina Nualart unabashedly discuss loneliness and PMT, and our spotlight this month features Javier Muñoz, a joyfully eclectic illustrator and artist based in Spain. Alongside his work, he talks to us about inspiration and his creative process.
Blank Media Presents... is previewed by Elaine Wilson, a writer and music blogger based in Liverpool, coupled with an interview with one of the featured bands at February's gig, Klaus Kinski.
All this and more in your monthly cultural companion, blankpages. Check it out!
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Saturday 27th February 2010, 8:30pm - Saturday 27th February 2010, 11:30pm
Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester
This month Blank Media Presents… is delighted to introduce you to:
PLANK! / Klaus Kinski / NASDAQ
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Friday 1st Jan 2010
Welcome to a new decade! It's the first blankpages of 2010! Our guest visual designer this month is Michael Thorp, who did some sterling illustration for the last issue, and is back this month to show us his vision for an entire issue. He recently graduated from Coventry University with a degree in Fine Art and Illustration.
Andy Glinka provides our cover art this month – polaroid shots from his series 'This Boy's Life', exploring the effects of adults' choices on a child's life through this most evocative and nostalgic of photographic media.
Salford rock group Samuel Sharp provide this month's mp3 sound companion, and poetry this month comes from John Maher and Karen Lavin, coupled with yet more beautiful illustration.
Our visual art spotlight this month returns with experiments in reflection and landscape by Peter Hiett, and our showcased fiction comes in the form of simple and effective short shorts from Luke Kenyon, who studied Creative Writing at The Bolton Institute, and now resides in Kurume, Southern Japan.
On top of all this, Blank Media Collective's Special Projects Co-ordinator, Petra Hoschtitzky, gives us her account of the Turner Prize exhibition and the recent announcement of the prize's winner. So come on in and start 2010 with a cultural and creative bonanza for you eyes, ears and mind!
Saturday 23rd January 2010, 8:30pm - Saturday 23rd January 2010, 11:30pm
Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester
This month Blank Media Presents… is delighted to introduce you to:
The Wyrding Module (www.myspace.com/drderekf)
”...inspired by Kosmische musik, mantra-rock, post-industrial ambience and the occult…”
Thee Moths (www.myspace.com/theemothsband)
”...mixture of vocal loops, home made synths, bells, and audience participation…”
Sukh (www.myspace.com/sukhuk)
”...upcoming singer songwriter…”
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Tuesday 1st Dec 2009
This month our magazine is re-imagined by the exemplary Henry Roberts, a Manchester-based graphic designer who we're very lucky to be working with. Our cover artist this month is Mario Sughi, an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and historian, living and working in Dublin. His featured images are just the striking surface of his wide portfolio and experience.
This month's mp3 comes from deep in the woods of Northern Sweden. Oskar Hallbert's minimal melodic music should be a soothing backdrop to your page turning experience. Our showcased poets are JEA Wallace, Nick Iles and Bethan Townsend. Each has an original, different voice and chosen subject matter, but each displays an element of escapism; much needed in this season's plummeting temperatures and supermarket saturated festivities. This month's fiction is a rambling reminiscence from Robert Monroe, his first piece of published fiction, looking at the uncontrollable, unchanging urges of passion through generations' gaps.
The Blank Media Collective Exhibitions team took a day trip to AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent in October – you can read about this contemporary art space in this month's feature. All this as well as our usual blankpicks of cultural happenings, and monthly review of Blank Media Presents... at Fuel Café Bar in Manchester.
Sunday 1st Nov 2009
This month is a poetry special! Manchester's queer vegan performance poet, Dominic Berry, treats us to his words, Justin Walsh serves up absurdities and nonsense - and for desert? Poetic treats from John Leyland! And more! Gerry Potter talks exclusively to blankpages in his first interview as himself since ditching his successful alter-ego Chloe Poems.
Music this month comes from Irma Vep, a Welsh born, Manchester based artist fusing a mixture of styles. Stunning guest visual design is provided by Liverpool artist Jack Welsh and our artists' spotlight falls on Phillip Marsden, a comic illustrator and founder of Compromise Comics Enterprise.
Friday 30th Oct 2009
Blank Media Collective is seeking proposals for an innovative and exciting exhibition in conjunction with Nexus Art Café, Manchester. Neck of the Woods will be a platform to investigate artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. We are looking for emerging practitioners from throughout the UK and internationally to submit proposals exploring this through your own creative practices.
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Thursday 19th November, 8pm - Thursday 19th November, 11pm
Blue Cat Cafe, Heaton Moor, Stockport
Guilt-Free-Entertainment presents A Bawdy Evening of Swilling Songs and Shanties with Black Jack Barnet (Support Dan Melrose). In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. So donate generously else ye be sleepin’ with the fishes!!
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