This December’s Digbeth First Friday sees Black Hole Club’s traditional end-of-year show together with Vivid Projects participation in the National Lottery’s #ThanksToYou. Everyone is welcome to join us to celebrate the work of 2018′s Black Hole Club cohort. Featuring performances, installations and digital works created during the year, the final show includes the launch…
Join us to celebrate the launch of blackholeclub.com and the cohorts first online exhibition. The artists use animated gifs, short form videos, tweets, 3D environments and more to explore how their practices exists in an online space. The works will be available to view in the space and you can find out more about…
An exhibition reflecting on ways in which optical illusions alter how we perceive the physical world. Featuring: Alex Billingham Carol Breen Dinosaur Kilby Edie Jo Murray Emily Roderick Libby Cufley Michael Dring Pete Ashton Sarah Walden Vicky Roden Exhibition opening times: Friday 29th June – 18:00 – 20:00 Saturday 30th June – 13:30 –…
Join us for a final show from the 2017 Black Hole Club cohort, presenting works produced during their membership. Chat to the artists, meet the curators and discover more about the future programme. Featuring work by: David Poole Alex Billingham Sarah Walden Sian Macfarlane Vicky Roden Kate Spence Michael Lightborne Vicky Roden Patrick Goodall…
As part of No Copyright Infringement Intended, Search Engine Artist Internet Imperialist Gretchen Andrew will be delivering a workshop on how search engines shape our understanding of culture. Participants of this workshop will learn the basics of image search engine optimization (seo) and how the photography/ images they create can be better positioned online…
Join Black Hole Club and Vivid Projects for Superseded, an exhibition reflecting on outdated technologies built for the display and transmission of video signals, inspired by the recent cease in production of VHS players. Superseded features a screening of Rosa Menkman’s 2012 live av performance Collapse of PAL, an audiovisual homage to the now…
Join Black Hole Club and Vivid Projects for an evening of audio experimentations made in response to deprecation of FM radio transmission and shift away from analogue audio technology. Featuring a live-streamed performance from Chicago-based artist and musician Jeff Kolar, alongside performances and installations from Black Hole Club Artists Alex Billingham, Coral Manton, Daniel…
The Black Hole Club returns with a night of experimental new work in progress featuring performance, video, slides and assemblages. Focusing on the world around us, the works explore brutalism and taxonomies of the city ; ritual assemblage and incantations; states of mind; narratives of water and the body … and a golden glitter…
“The future is here. It just isn’t evenly distributed yet”. Black Hole Club present an evening of daring performance and installations including a live hashtag challenge, dystopian noodles, creepy surveillance and a film featuring St. Joseph, a group of Morris Dancers and a body builder covered in engine oil. Artists include: David Poole, Ryan…
Constructing The Self is a one night event of new art works, music and audience participation, led by the Black Hole Club group of Midlands artists in celebration of the creative life of David Bowie. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues as we explore Bowie’s world. Starman, iconoclast, Blackstar: David Bowie…