BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a weekend event with Canadian art duo Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August. Seripop artists Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau have joined forces with guest curator Sophie Brown to bring an event of design, print, illustrations and live music to BALTIC.
Seripop’s installation of two and three dimensional psychedelic screen prints and illustrations will be housed in BALTIC’s Level 1 Performance Space, creating a unique environment for performances from 10 live music bands, including their very own Hamborghinni, over two nights.
The bands performing are:
FRIDAY 31 JULY, DOORS: 7.30PM
Spin Spin the Dogs
juneau brothers
Les Cox (sportifs)
A Middle Sex
Blood Oracles
SATURDAY 1 AUGUST, DOORS 7.30PM
Hamborghinni (Lum & Desranleau)
Cleckhuddersfax
Beards
Roseanne Barrr
Jazzfinger
Tickets for both gigs can now be purchased in advance in person from BALTIC Shop or online:
TICKET BOOKING INFORMATION
Friday 31 July and Saturday 1 August 2009, Doors: 7.30pm
Price: £8.00 / £6.00 (Cons) + 10% booking fee
Tickets are available from
WE GOT TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com
In addition to the live music programme Seripop’s installation will be free to view during gallery hours on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August and will be accompanied by a free film programme which will be shown in the adjacent cinema.
A free fanzine for the event has been created by ‘zine makers Ricochet! Ricochet! and Craft Club and will be available alongside other Seripop merchandise and silkscreened posters from a fanzine distro stall located on Level 1 for the entire weekend. It will also offer works from North East fanzine makers with an opportunity to buy prints from the best of current UK screenprinters.
BALTIC Shop will also be selling Seripop prints and associated merchandise, with products also available to buy online at www.balticmill.com/shop.
SERIPOP at NORTHERN PRINT BIENNALE
Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 August 2009
BALTIC has joined forces with Northern Print Biennale to offer even more Seripop events. Northern Print Biennale is a major international event for contemporary printmaking taking place across Newcastle upon Tyne. As part of the Biennale, Seripop will be resident at Northern Print creating a new screenprint, which will be available to buy from BALTIC Shop. On Monday 3 August, Seripop will host a basic screenprinting workshop for 6 people (suitable for age 16+, participants under the age of 18 must have parental / guardian permission) at Northern Print priced at £10.00 per person and on Tuesday 4 August at 6.15pm they will host a FREE talk about their work at BALTIC.
SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP AT NORTHERN PRINT
Monday 3 August, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Priced: £10.00
SERIPOP TALK AT BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Tuesday 4 August, 6.15pm
Price: FREE
To book for both events please contact:
E: [email protected] or T: 0191 440 4919
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For further information please contact:
Ann Cooper, Media Officer T: 0191 440 4915 E: [email protected]
Nikki Johnson, Communications Assistant T: 0191 440 4912 E: [email protected]
SERIPOP
Seripop are Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum. They live in Montreal, Canada and work from the cooperative studio One Hundred Sided Die. Originally working in video and performance, they started making handmade posters for their own band AIDS Wolf in 2001 and soon were making posters for the majority of bands in the DIY, Punk, Noise, Art Rock scene such as Lightning Bolt, USA is a Monster, TV on the Radio, XBXRX, and Black Dice. Recently they have been creating large installations with their prints and folded paper sculptures to transform a space where they wish to immerse the viewer in their colourfully, distorted and saturated world.
Sophie Brown is a freelance curator and promoter based in London. Ensconced in the DIY music scene, she has previously presented exhibitions at Three Colts Gallery, Whitechapel Project Space and Oslo’s Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter concerned with the meeting point between music, performance and art.
NORTHERN PRINT BIENNALE
Initiated by Northern Print in partnership with Culture10, Northern Print Biennale is the first major competition and exhibition of contemporary printmaking in the UK for almost 20 years. Newcastle Gateshead will celebrate contemporary and historical printmaking through a broad programme of exhibitions and events. 26 June to 4 October 2009. For further details visit www.northernprint.org.uk
BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England. BALTIC presents a constantly changing, distinctive and ambitious programme of exhibitions and events, and is a world leader in the presentation, commissioning and communication of contemporary visual art. BALTIC has welcomed over 3 million visitors, since opening to the public in July 2002.
GALLERY INFORMATION:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 478 1810
Fax: +44 (0) 191 478 1922
[email protected]
www.balticmill.com
Opening hours:
Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 18.00 (excluding Tuesday)
Tuesday 10.30 – 18.00
ADMISSION FREE
