Invite Teaser

Here's a teaser for the invitation to the Strange Cargo installation (25th September through 13th November 2004) at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle. Watch this space for more info as it becomes available...

The Suburban Political Poster Project

When in Munich, check out THE SUBURBAN POLITICAL POSTER PROJECT at
Ort für zeitgenössische Kunst I Space for Contemporary Art.

Lothringer Strasse 13
81667 München
T + 49 89 448 69 61
F + 49 89 688 62 44
Di - So, 13 - 19 Uhr I Tues. - Sun., 1 - 7 p.m.
lothringer dreizehn is an Institution of the Cultural Council of the City of Munich.



ARTISTS:
Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan, Stephen Berens, Tom Bamberger, Roberto Arcuate, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mungo Thomson, Joel Feldman, Lane Hall, Chris Hanson+Hendrika Sonnenberg, Lisa Caccioppol, Pedro Velez, Josh Decter, James Westwater, Yumi Roth, Nick Brown, Maya Schindler, Oli Watt, Paul Druecke, Jane Benson, Dan Mitchell, Mark Klassen, Scott Reeder, David Robbin, Amanda Browder, Karl Erickson, Helen Maria Nugent+Ron Kirkpatrick, Nathan James, Helidon Gjergji, Barry Underwood, Gregg Perkins, Curtis Whaley, Santiago Cucullu, Aaron Van Dyke, Nate Page, Kick McCall, Rodney McMillan, Michael Smith and Kayrock, Terence Hannum, Olof Olsson, Sharon Englestein, Anthony Aeelms, Elise Ferguson, Shane Aslan Selzer, Annika Marie, Scott Wolniak, David Krueger, Danny Yahav-Brown, Amy Saxe.

You can download the Kartoon Kings contribution to the exhibition, in Acrobat PDF formt, here.

The Progressive Players

In honor of the 80,000 sq. ft. installation upcoming Strange Cargo installation at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle, here's a link to the Little Theater, home to the Progressive Players. The company was formed in 1920 and moved into the theatre after it was built in 1943, during WW2.

Their web site has a pretty interesting history of the theater:

Then there were the German bombers. One clear night in early Spring of 1943, the moon shone bright and everyone said, “They’ll come tonight if they ever do.” They did come, but before they arrived a thick white frost mist had covered the town and clouds had hidden the moon and the bombs fell in Saltwell Park, harmlessly, as far as the population was concerned. However one bomb exploded among the trees just opposite the front of the theatre, which had just been finished, blowing in the windows and still worse, the doors, which could not be made to work smoothly for long afterwards, and the trunk of a tree fell through the roof.

The Progressive Players partnered with Grennan and Sperandio in 2000 to make their film The Hand and the Word, available from Printed Matter.

Bargain Book

From Webster Used Books comes quite a bargain. A copy of the Grennan and Sperandio book Six Eastbourne Dentists is available online for $7, plus shipping and handling. This book can't be found for love or money, except for $7 at Webster Used Books. If you love photography, you might like this book.

Young English

From the A-5 Motorway in England, comes YOUNG ENGLISH, a Grennan and Sperandio collaborative billboard project. Although the project was completed in 2002, this recently discovered page gives a nice little overview.

Shifting Gear

In case you've never seen it, here's the web site dedicated to Grennan and Sperandio's stint as visiting artists at Wal-Mart. The project included billboards for both inside the store and along the bus route from the center of town, as well as a customized double decker bus.