VIVID

VIVID provides a resource for artists and curators in the form of commissions, residencies, exhibitions, publications, research, talks and touring activities.

VIVID's project space accommodates the production and exhibition of media arts, bringing together technical resources, support services and presentation facilities in a unique environment.

VIVID gratefully acknowledges support from:

THU 23 SEP - SAT 16 OCT 2010 | open Thu-Sat, 12-5pm

VIVID is delighted to announce details of The Last Tape, an exciting new commission by British artist Haroon Mirza. The work, comprising film and sculptural assemblage, sews together Krapp's Last Tape a one-act play written by Samuel Beckett and Mirza's exploration of post-punk pioneers Joy Division.

The Last Tape is presented at VIVID from Thursday 23 September to Saturday 16 October 2010 as part of VIVID's LANGUAGE season, a series of exhibitions, talks, and films exploring the constructs of language and meaning from far reaching cultural perspectives.

The new commission is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, Birmingham City Council, and National Lottery through Arts Council England. The Last Tape is curated by Jenine McGaughran in association with VIVID.

Image: Photo by Peter Martin

THU 04 - SAT 20 NOV 2010 | open Thu-Sat, 12-5pm

PREVIEW - Wed 03 Nov, 6-8 PM

Continuing their current body of work The Museum of non Participation, VIVID presents The Daily Battle, a new exhibition by London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler.

The title is translated from UK/ Urdu newspaper The Daily Jang, the UK's largest newspaper dedicated to news between Pakistan and the UK. The artists, in collaboration with other cultural thinkers, will produce a series of columns for the newspaper as a temporary site of creative contemporary cultural discourse. One hundred copies of the newspaper will be delivered to VIVID each morning as the focus of an installation within the exhibition. Details of column contributors will be released on VIVID's website

Also at VIVID, Mirza and Butler present their award winning film The Exception and The Rule alongside other sited works from the Museum of non Participation.

The Daily Battle is presented as part of VIVID's LANGUAGE season, a series of exhibitions, talks, and films exploring the constructs of language and meaning from far reaching cultural perspectives.

For further information about Karen Mirza and Brad Butler please visit http://mirza-butler.net/

The new commission is supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England and Birmingham Cultural Partnership.

Image: The Exception and The Rule

Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. Production still. (April 2010)

VIVID is delighted to announce details of the first UK tour of new work by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Birmingham Cultural Partnership and The Henry Moore Foundation, this touring exhibition is produced by VIVID and developed in collaboration with Danielle Arnaud and ArtSway.

Inbindable Volume, the inaugural commission developed in residence between VIVID and Jan Van Eyck Academie, and additional commissions developed with our touring partners will tour to Danielle Arnaud, London (17 September to 24 October 2010) and ArtSway, Hampshire (Summer 2011).

For more information click here.

Image: Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. Production still. (April 2010)

Stefan & Franciszka Themerson. The Eye and The Ear. Image courtesy of LUX

SEEING SOUND

FRI 22 - SUN 24 OCT 2010

“Music, in addition to pleasing the ear brings something to the eye.” Mary Ellen Bute, 1936

Presented during Supersonic Festival, Seeing Sound is an exhibition exploring the ways in which we experience sound as light, movement, noise, and colour. Spanning 70 years the programme draws together historical and contemporary moving image works and performances.

For more information click here.

Image: Stefan & Franciszka Themerson. The Eye and The Ear. Image courtesy of LUX

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

SAT 18 DEC | 8.30pm - LATE

Sack off your office party and join VIVID on Saturday 18th December, 8.30pm - late for a Christmas knees up to mark the close of its 2010 programme.

Nightmare Before Christmas will play host to a warped line up of winter horror, creepy electronica and spectral pop with DJ sets from COLOUR, John Napier and Dan Le Trap.

The party loosely ties in with VIVID's final commission of 2010 which will be work and performance by artist Aura Satz (http://www.iamanagram.com/index1.html). Satz's work explores ghostly presence and illusions through performance and sound and is often focussed on unusual sonic devices, early musical instruments and automata.

Tickets £5 available in advance from:
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10013192

Image: Photograph by Jack Adams

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