House of POLLYFIBRE at Absolut Fringe

House of Pollyfibre presents Prêt-à-Médiatiser in this years  Absolut Fringe programme. Deconstructing the conventional fashion show format, artist Christine Ellison manipulates the physical tools and digital technology of design production to create a colourful visual environment accompanied by a live noise scape.

Referencing early software interfaces and magazine culture, Ellison takes this 2 dimensional imagery and creates cut out dresses and hats made of geometric shapes. The live performance will involve and reveal the backstage craziness of model changes and ‘live layering’ with the fashion collection itself offering dual possibilities depending on your perspective. So sounds like one hell of an exciting production already and then add to this the documentation of the event, which will eventually become part of the show itself. Billed as ‘high art meets fashion’ the installation references art and architectural ideas of the Dadaists and Futurists from the early 20th Century, revisiting the effects of new technologies and a new visual culture at the beginning of our own Brave New World. Conceptually is an impressively conceived project that’s super relevant to anybody working in design, but the surface pleasure is all rudimentary style and entertainment.

FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY 16 – 17 SEPT in South Studios as part of ABSOLUT Fringe – Ireland’s largest multi-disciplinary arts festival 10 – 25 September 2011

INDEPENDENT/NEZALEZHNI. NEW ART OF A NEW COUNTRY 1991-2011

4th Moscow Biennial/Special Project
Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal/Art Arsenal, Kyiv August 22 – September 13, 2011

INDEPENDENT/NEZALEZHNI features 2 new videos projects by Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey) from the Ballet series in a new installation with a series of new paintings by Pavlo Kerestey. Ballet – Granite is a rock opera performance that flirts with a posthuman conception of action, focusing on the border between human bodies and their outside. Set in a world askew with attempts and remnants of civilization it questions how the world of vibrant and edible matter might affect the way we live. The setting: a mystical landscape, a crash site, in the wild or in the rush of a blackout. Pulling apart the “ballet” of the food system in musical scenes and absurd stories a hysterical cabaret unfolds with simple actions which gradually unravel.

4^th Moscow Biennial

http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects.html

INDEPENDENT / NEZALEZHNI at Art Arsenal
http://artarsenal.in.ua/eng/event21.html

Narrative Show

John Russell. Mono))chr~o~*me~*~’`^`’~*-,._.,-*~’`^`’~*-Joy (2011)
Double-stri///ke, back-lit digital print on vinyl, 400 x 779cm

NOW SHOWING \\\\\\\\¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ at Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
15 July – 1o Sept@mber 2011
Open Thursday 12-6.30pm, Friday and Saturday 12-5pm

“9&*9688,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,oLooking upwards zzPhillip could see co%ncentric circles of FERALred and vermilion rotating and exploding outwards around a giant eye/anus/solar sun a wound in the sky seeping prol@t*riat-sun1ight like puss through the fle888sh of the populace rotting outwards from middle a monochrome red int+erlaced with images of other places and other times fRRE£nZcoinciding dialectically with conceo~*~’` ^`’ ~*-,._.,-* ~’`^`’~*-, ntric circles spreading out amongst shimmering peta8ls and8&~~ 9yrating POLICE lights visible o~*~’` ^`’ ~*-,._.,-* ~’`^`’~*-, through the **red haze adjacent t the wound w0mb interference blur at edges babies dripping with the/// paralysis in a sulphuric sky and slowly a l@rge fountain sprays emerges from the mist constructed from crystals formed into baroque detail patterned up and down into ¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· monzz// ·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)columns and pulsing upwards to a o~*~’`^`’~*-,._.,-*~’`^`’~*-,spouting splash @f droplets cascading down on the surrounding landscape c0lour burn unfurling from the centre petals of representation peeling backwards in semi-symmetry paralysed and rotating out of an off-centre as points of contact along a circulation of flows and/or networks of distribution the implied frontality of theo~*~’`^`’~*-,._.,-*~’`^`’~*-, image-cladding double-5trike CMYK articulated across.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸> one perspective enlarged to vinyl and stretched 4 x 7. 79 metres across one face of the [[[architecture angled towards the light of the sun in relation to surfaces of emergence authorities of delimitation and grids of specification and other supporting structures adjacent to the artwork emblazoned coarsely @nd dumbly across the plastic surface Intensity Fugitive Vertical.”

As part of Narrative Show
Helen Brown, Dora Garcia, Nathaniel Mellors,
Heather & Ivan Morison, Sally O’Reilly,
Raimundas Malasauskas, Apexa Patel, Poster Club,
John Russell, Henrik Schrat, Jemima Stehli & Filho da Mae,
Cally Spooner (with International Project Space).

www.eastsideprojects.org

86 Heath Mill Lane,
Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK