SOUND ART FESTIVAL @ the Echo Bar, Chilingham Rd, Heaton, Newcastle. Starts at 6.30pm.
Tonight Glue group are hosting a night of innovative musicians and sparky sound art, firing music making into new dimensions!!
The night will platform a variety of local artbased acts, extending further Gallery Glue's determination to support their neighbouring artist organisations.
Also… a one man 8 bit drum machine extraordinaire, DURACELL, all the way from Paris, has been booked to entertain the masses with his jazzy circuit bending and bashing beats.
£5 enrty. Get there early!
gg x laura
We are now five days into our residency programme, which is already turning out to be incredibly exciting and varied.
Ben Jeans Houghton was in residence with his project, ‘Memory Map’, between Thursday 5th and Saturday 7th. We recieved loads of great feeback from visitors and a very decent turnout for his private view on the Saturday evening. Over the course of three days Ben drew a map of Newcastle from memory on large sheets of paper spread over the gallery floor. For the evening of the 7th the map was pinned to a wall and viewers were encouraged to type out personal memories evoked by places on the map on a typewriter and literally attach their memories to these places with pieces of red wool and pins. Some of the red wool linked high up to the opposite wall, where a series of almost identical self portrait photos of Ben thinking about his own memories were placed. It was good to see such an effective use of the space, and a great start to the Residency programme.
Currently three artists – Joanna Garlick, Sarah McMahon and Kate Liston – are collaborating on a project involving wallpaper, henna tattoos and many many cups of tea. Once again the space is turning into something quite unexpected and we’ll be looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with by the end of their stay tomorrow evening.
Next up on the 11th will be Abigail Cooper. Abigail will use an abundance of mass-produced objects to create an installation that consumes the gallery space. The audience is invited to view the artist at work, repetitively and meditatively assembling everyday objects.
Please see the website www.gluegroup.org.uk for other upcoming residency information. For more images we have a photobucket account which you can view at http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb66/gluegroup/
Each residency will be carefully documented, and we’re planning to present this documentation at a night of art and music at the Cumberland Arms booked for the 29th – shortly after our HORSE_GLUE sound art festival at Echo Bar on the 24th. Its going to be a delightfully chaotic month!
GG Mark
Our second exhibition SHOP has come to an end. We've had some great feedback from visitors and artists who seemed to love the eclectic nature of the exhibition.
It was useful to see how the space worked as a non-white-cube environment. It's important in these early stages to experiment with different ways of using the space and I think that's something we'll get a lot of experience of in next month's programme.
Call it brave, call it mad, call it a stroke of utter genius, call it whatever, but after a pizza and wine fuelled meeting one night in Glasgow, Glue Group had the idea to relinquish control for a whole month and let other artists decide how they'd like to use our space.
So, from an open call, we have selected 11 mini-residencies, each between 1 and 5 days long, involving over 16 artists from around the region and beyond!
Who knows what the results will be? Uncontrolled chaos or unfathomable creativity??
Here's the link to find out more about this exciting programme which will feature exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops and other unmentionable shenanigans!
http://www.gluegroup.org.uk/current%20exhibitions
Wish us luck, GG (Hannah)
