Apparently we have been hoodwinked…
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23rd-27th March 2011 / Birmingham UK
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- Posted on 7th March 2009
- Posted on 6th March 2009
Led by umbrella-wielding tour guides (pointing devices rather than rainsavers) last night saw the launch of the Flatpack Installation Trail. Dedicated trailmakers began at Urban Outfitters for Chris + Keir’s ‘tribute to the 19th century Canadian Vaudevillian Rob Ring’.
David Osbaldestin and John Wigley of BIAD were both on brolly duty and led the ramble (and discussion) across all five installation hotspots (map). A gothic love story, cross-looping noir narratives and Hitchcock sms intertitling took us through to Digbeth’s favourite bright yellow building, COW Vintage where Phil Barber’s untitled, multi-monitored, screensaver death piece concluded the tour.
Pete Ashton was on hand with his Flip and comprehensive footage is on his Vimeo page. I relived the tour this afternoon in the cold light of day, hoping to take some more photos. (Note: monitors in windows in daylight makes for difficult subject matter.) All will be uploaded to the Flickr shortly. In the meantime you’d be advised to do the rounds and see with your own eyes. The installation trail runs until March 15.
- Posted on 27th February 2009
Below is a flyer for next week’s launch of the shop-window installation trail, at Urban Outfitters [map] from 5.30pm on Thursday 5th March. A little tour will wend its way around the shop locations on the night, ending at COW Vintage in DIgbeth around 8pm. We’re really excited about what the artists have come up with; read Tessa Burwood’s splendid BBC writeup for more of an idea of the trail.
(Flyer by Jaskinder Kaur, Birmingham City University.) Oh and for those of you who can’t make it near a nice pile of brochures, here’s a handy PDF we uploaded.
So what else is new? It’s getting to that time when people ask ‘how’s everything going?’ with a slightly worrying/worried smile. It’s actually going really well. (I’m going to get this printed on a tshirt.) On Tuesday we had about 60 volunteers congregate at Friction Arts, all up for it – as always the point when the festival feels like it’s happening. Even more exciting for me was going through the techy schedule with our video fellas and concluding that it is all just about doable (though no doubt this feeling will pass!).
But the best thing has been how damn excited everyone else is. When you’re pretty much at the end of your tether with list-making and problem-solving fatigue and wondering why you bothered, along comes a palpable audience buzz to buoy you up and keep you going. Extra pressure, but a good kind of pressure.
© Flatpack Festival 2010