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Home > Art > Bookworks’ Again, A Time Machine at Eastside Projects

Bookworks’ Again, A Time Machine at Eastside Projects

By Caroline King - March 1, 2011Posted in : Art

When: Until 16th April 2011

Where: Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR

£: Free

What is it?

Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures.

Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour, reinventing itself as work moves from venue to venue. Based on new commissions and archival presentations, it will generate ephemera, performance and printed material, in response to a theme that plays with and inverts notions of time, archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures.

New commissions for Eastside Projects sees the start of a poster project by Jonathan Monk, the reimagining of a Polish–Iranian solidarity by Slavs and Tatars, readings of Dora Garcia’s All the Stories, artists’ talks, The Happy Hypocrite-Say What You See: a cycle of readings co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco, and a newspaper.

More info: Eastside Projects

Tagged With: Eastside Projects, Jonathan Monk, West Midlands

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