Culture Lab OnSite
Posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 by B.Darlington
May marks the beginning of a few new projects for us, and one of those involves working with the wonderful people at Culture Lab's new venue OnSite.
We are really delighted to be assisting with promoting this new project space, which seeks to enliven the city centre of Newcastle with interesting culture, arts and technology research and events.
With the intention of creating a space that the creative public of Newcastle can engage and interact with, OnSite will extend community engagement initiatives outside of the university campus. They will be assisting in designing and implementing partnership projects between creative industry partners and the university.
Excitingly, they are also open to your suggestions and ideas, with the desire for OnSite to become a place where open-minded, collaborative and innovative methods come together. So, not only boasting an fascinating line-up of events and exhibitions over the coming months, you can also get in touch about your own ideas for this well-equipped space.
Intrigued? Why not join us on Friday 20 May for a special event looking at Creative Stuff in Public Spaces?
This Friday sees the opening of a project for which Newcastle City Council, Culture Lab, Northern Architecture and iLab:Museum have commissioned nine artists to design new perspectives on the city and its public art collection. The artists created fresh approaches to editing and exhibiting aspects of the city, making them artworks in their own right.
The projects range from performative interventions and guided tours raising awareness of the special places and features of our city, to new applications of real-time sound technologies that allow us to listen to the city in entirely different ways.
Full details can be found here, where you can also join their mailing list.
So, please pop by this Friday 20 May at 6pm
Arch 5, Forth Street, NE1 3PJ
(Usual opening hours: Monday – Saturday 11am – 6pm)
Special Events (please RSVP to cl.onsite@ncl.ac.uk):
21 May, 4pm Listen to the city through the ears of a balloon. Demo in public space, by Alessandro Altavilla.
22 May, 4pm A photo walk about the inventive curiosity of the photographer’s eye looking at the city, by Adrian Park.
24 May, 12pm To compliment the Media in Public exhibition, public realm curator Rebecca Farley will be leading an informal workshop to gather your views and ideas on what a future public art guide to the City might contain or look like. The workshop will last approx 1 hour.
Closing Event: 27 May, 6pm Public debate about Public art, chaired by Michael Crilly, featuring Chris Morton.