Showcasing the works of EOP (Extra Ordinary People) members at East Side Projects Birmingham, this exhibition is open Wednesday - Friday 12-5pm. Launching as part of Digbeth First Fridays, 7 October 6-8pm at 86 Heath Mill Lane, B9 4AR.
Everyone is invited to join us for the launch of Summer Camp Show. Friday 7 October 6-8pm.
The culmination of Summer Camp 2022, the exhibition will include works by Katayoun Jalilipour, Alex Parry, and Basel Zaraa, who will be in residence at Eastside Projects from 27 September – 7 October, and live performances by Crow Dillon-Parkin and Lucifer Sky, alongside a showreel and exhibition of new works by artists who are members of EOP.
Summer Camp Show continues in the gallery and online on STREAM until 15 October.
Summer Camp is an opportunity for EOP members to try out ideas, collaborate, experiment, share work and take over Eastside Projects. Extra Ordinary People (EOP) is Eastside Projects’ Associate membership scheme. EOP works with artists, curators, and art-writers to support the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities, and projects.
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SUMMER CAMP MICRO-RESIDENCY ARTISTS:
Katayoun Jalilipour (b. 1995, Isfahan) is an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist, performer and writer based in the Midlands. Through humour, provocation and storytelling their practice uses the body as the subject to talk about race, gender identity and sexuality. They work in a variety of mediums including moving image, installation, drawing, text and live performance. They use speculative histories and fictions to re-tell stories through a queer lens, and they have an ongoing body of research looking for fragments of queerness hidden in Iran’s Qajar era. Katayoun is an associate lecturer on BA Performance: Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins.
www.katayounjalilipour.com
Alex Parry is an artist currently doing a practice based PhD at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, exploring art workshops as a form of world building and speculative fiction in terms of ideas, social relationships and materials produced. She has an interest in group dynamics and creating inclusive structures for group work and is currently part of Studio Yea with Eva Freeman and Youngsook Choi who are a group of artists exploring how to support each other in these precarious times. Alex has an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere course from the Royal Collage of Art (2016-18), and a BA in Social Anthropology and Media from Goldsmiths College (2005 – 8). She often makes participatory artworks in public spaces and has worked with organisations including the Pumphouse Gallery, Hardwick Gallery, FACT and Hackney Council.
www.alexandraparry.co.uk
Basel Zaraa is a Birmingham-based Palestinian installation artist whose work explores what it means to be born ‘stateless’. He creates interactive installations that use the senses to bring audiences closer to experiences of exile and the search for identity.
@ebsil.85
PERFORMANCE PLATFORM ARTISTS:
Crow Dillon-Parkin makes work about embodied experience, often from her own perspective as a neurodivergent menopausal woman with some physical disabilities. She uses drawing, collage, photography, performance and video, and makes sculptures and installation pieces, sometimes with a performative or video element. Crow usually works on several projects at once, depending on the time, facilities and level of focus she has available. Recent works respond to the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic and personal experiences of medication, but not all at the same time.
Crow has an MA in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins, returned to Birmingham in 2019, and is now working from a unit at The Old Print Works, Balsall Heath. Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London, Ort Gallery and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, the Venice Arsenale, and New Art Gallery Walsall (Twenty Twenty Collection and West Midlands Open).
crowdillonparkin.com
Lucifer Sky (Indira Lakshmi) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Coventry, UK. She works across mediums of sound, performance, sculpture, programming and DIY electronics. As a solo project Lucifer Sky began in 2018 as an amalgamation of field recordings and distorted melodies as she navigated through new environments – geographic and psychological.
Lucifer’s music exists as immersive soundscapes oscillating between chaos and calm, a mix of experimental drone, noise and ambient. She uses various materials including field recordings, spoken word as well as composed sound with a variety of instruments such as DIY electronic and MIDI instruments and found objects. Another aspect of her work is performative live soundscapes where she creates multi-layered, ephemeral audio-environments. Recently she has been programming interactive audio-visual experiences, with a focus on play and connectivity.
@indira_lucifer_sky
More artists presenting in the Show and Showreel to be announced soon…