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Pretty self explanatory. Contact Eastside Projects if you know a bass player called John.

I went to the private view for this show by Ruth Claxton but I had to run off to see Reuben, so I went back a few days later so that I could appreciate the work and not just the free wine!

To me the work talks about the future and how it’s all just bouncing off each other and we’re not really going anywhere new. The way that the old, traditional figures are fused together with bright, colourful and very experimental objects made me think about how some art is just reinventions and reinterpretations of older works.

Though, after reading the actual booklet methinks I missed the point completely! Still, good work

So yeah, the first exhibition of B-VAC (Birmingham Visual Arts Coalition) is taking place soon. See flyer below.

I’ve set up a Twitter account for B-VAC but not quite sure where to go with it yet. Lets call it an experiment!

Shoreditch Town Hall, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

The Insectoid performance went great! At times is was a stressful day but it came together in the end! This is the space we performed in alongside Tai Shani, who were with the band Guapo. There’ll be audio and visuals from the event once it’s all processed!

Empire and Daughter Isotope + Insectoid

A one off performance by Tai Shani featuring epic prog band Guapo and electroclash diva Angie Reed. Cannibalizing pulp film and fiction through black magic cult rituals, a mini mouse anti-sacrifice of twelve virgins is crowned by five tableaux of notorious Satanist Anton Lavey posing in nudist magazine Jaybird.

Then, Insectoid’s hive colonise the stage and perform their own entomological rites, exploring insect behaviour to produce exoskeletal sounds.

8 May doors at 20:00, performance starts 20:30

Shoreditch Town Hall,

380 Old st.

London EC1V 9LP

Tickets are £4 advance, £5 on the door and are available from The Pump House or via PayPal payment to
psychoplasmics@yahoo.co.uk

So liek, I’m in it too. YA RLY!

It would seem that 29th April is quite a popular day for activities. There’s Pub Conversations at The Spotted Dog, the 4th Birmingham Bloggers Meet (you guys need a web page!) at Rootys and Stitches and Hos at The Hare and Hounds. Lots to choose from, so take your pick!

Surprisingly I’ll be at Stitches and Hos, so will see anyone else there for some hardcore knitting!

The Institute of Psychoplasmics presents an offsite evening of live art. I’ll be taking part in it with the Insectoid crew!:

Empire and Daughter Isotope + Insectoid (offsite performance event)

A one off performance by Tai Shani featuring epic prog band Guapo and electroclash diva Angie Reed. Cannibalizing pulp film and fiction through black magic cult rituals, a mini mouse anti-sacrifice of twelve virgins is crowned by five tableaux of notorious Satanist Anton Lavey posing in nudist magazine Jaybird.

Insectoid’s hive colonise the stage and perform their own entomological rites, exploring insect behaviour to produce exoskeletal sounds.

8 May doors at 20:00, performance starts 20:30

Shoreditch Town Hall,
380 Old st.
London EC1V 9LP

Tickets are £4 advance, £5 on the door and are available from The Pump House or via PayPal payment to psychoplasmics@yahoo.co.uk

Come along to it, even if you’re not in the London area!

Of the many points of discussion at the Soapbox event on Tuesday one that took my interest was the idea of having some sort of awards. I think having awards for ‘best practitioner in x category’ would be a great way for us to better ourselves, but more importantly to actually give some way to measure what actually makes a good workshop leader. The question now is who would set up such an award?

Antonio Round the Table, originally uploaded by Aeioux.

Two Antonio’s in one room. Never had this before. The other is Antonio Gould.

Last night I was at the third Birmingham Bloggers meet. If you don’t already know what it’s all about let the Facebook group do the talking.

This is the second time that I’ve been and it definitely seems more structured and formal, but I quite liked that. It meant that we had an agenda and, at the very least had an opening line when introducing ourselves to other bloggers! I wont go onto listing all of the names and blogs of everyone who attended. Just watch this handy video taken by Andrew Dubber

(check out my bit 49mins into the vid. Man, I need a haircut…)I’d like to draw up on what I said in the vid on here as well. I’m from an area of Birmingham called Winson Green. I wouldn’t exactly call that area tech savvy, so I’m very interested in seeing what a coworking space, and the people running it, can offer a communtity who are almost completely unknowledgable when it comes to technology. As well as my personal illustration work I’m a community artist and do workshops with different community groups, so I’m naturally interested in extending projects outside of niche groups into the wider community somehow.To exapnd on something that Charlotte Carey said, I’d like to get more specialist groups using and embracing technology. Based on visual appearance alone I think I was one of two Black people there, and there was probably four women there. This isn’t a fault of the blogging community at all, but what I’d like to see coworking spaces do is actively seek out these minority groups, which include ethnic minorities and women and the disabled, and introduce them to the benefits of web technologies.

The overall formal side of the meeting was great! As I was saying to Jon, I’d like to have fortnightly meetups. Although I think the arrangement should be that on one session should be based around a discussion forum and the other, like the one last night, more of a social gathering, which will perhaps still have an agenda. Whaddaya think?

I spoke to Jon Bounds and some others afterwards about how I don’t really see all that many artists using blogs. Aside from Ana Milgram and Lara Jade I haven’t stumbled across any Birmingham-based artists embracing a blog format and exploring the potential of it for their portfolio website. Since last night I’ve had a lot of cool arty ideas that incorporate and rely heavily on t’interwebber and social networking, which I’ll indulge you all with later in the week.

Can’t wait to read what everyone else thought of the meet!

That’s probably way more than 500 words. Good enough for ya Pete?

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