What is Industry? (Moon Boot Yoga Lauch) - Friday 24 July 2009
Art
Keith Wilson
What is Industry? (Moon Boot Yoga Launch)
7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 24 July 2009
Corner of Typhoo Basin & Warwick Bar Stop Lock, canal accesible from Fazely Street, at canal bridge between Andover Street and Pickford Street.
Join the canal side moon boot yoga launch of Keith Wilson’s What is Industry? a specially bound, numbered and boxed sample book, gathering together redundant materials, to serve as more or less recognisable ‘triggers’. The question, What is Industry? is strongly embedded in Wilson’s ongoing practice, which often makes use of industrial processes just as they are falling out of currency, or he employs them in alternative ways in unfamiliar contexts. The publication is number 25 in a series of 40 Strategic Questions, curated by Gavin Wade, and written by R. Buckminster Fuller, in 1966.
At the launch event, and the following day, Saturday 25th, inside Supersonic, you are invited to be part of a new film by Wilson called Moon Landing. In slow motion the film will capture the landing moment of a sequence of people’s backsides sitting down onto moon boot fabric yoga mats, fashioned by Wilson from one of the key materials in his sample book. Don’t miss out on the chance to go down in history and to see the first screening of the rough-edit of the film on Sunday at Supersonic.
What is industry? ISBN –978-0-9551611-9-3 Published by Strategic Questions
Edition of 250 copies. Price: £15
Strategic Questions 2007-9 kindly supported by Arts Council England GFA.
• Filming - Launch event and Saturday 25th July 6 - 8pm, Custard Factory.
• Screening - Sunday 26th 5.45 - 6.15pm, Custard Factory.
Openings also take place at Supersonic and Ikon Eastside on 24th July.
Supersonic Festival, Custard Factory 24-26 July www.supersonicfestival.com
Eastside Projects 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK
Contact info@eastsideprojects.org www.eastsideprojects.org
Open Thursday 12-7pm, Friday to Sunday 12-5pm
