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From: Press release Category: ArtExhibitionsPress ReleaseMusic Date: 03 June 2009 Time: 05:01 AM Review: Media Information: Media information: Friday 29th May, 2009 SERIPOP A weekend of printmaking, illustration and live music Friday 31 July – Sunday 2 August Level 1 Performance Space and Cinema BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a three day event with Canadian art duo, Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August 2009. Seripop artists Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau have joined forces with guest curator Sophie Brown to bring a weekend 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 over two nights, including Lum and Desranleau’s very own band Hamborghinni. The live music will come from the likes of Cleckhuddersfax, drawing influences from the weirdest corners of punk, prog, synth pop and disco to create a unique sound which mixes up experiment and fun in equal measures; Beards from Leeds who dress in homemade costumes and face paint making a theatrical performance; Birmingham based Phil Duckworth and Ben Sadler aka juneau brothers, who sing and play handmade electronic sculptural instruments inspired by folk history and Newcastle based modern folk trio Les Cox (sportifs). FULL LIVE MUSIC LINE UP ANNOUNCED 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 from: 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 Seripop are driven by a DIY underground music scene and create posters and artwork for their own band AIDS Wolf and other musicians. From this they have spearheaded an exciting independent art scene, which is more familiar outside of traditional gallery spaces. Seripop are concerned with experimenting with surrealist imagery on their own terms instead of creating commercial artwork. In despite of this their prints and designs have become very collectable and these young artists are forming a vibrant and successful international scene. 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 screen print, which will be available to buy from BALTIC Shop. On Monday 3 August, Seripop will host a basic screen printing workshop for 6 people (suitable for age 14+) 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: learning@balticmill.com or T: 0191 440 4919 END For further information please contact: Ann Cooper, Media Officer T: 0191 440 4915 E: annc@balticmill.com Nikki Johnson, Communications Assistant T: 0191 440 4912 E: nikkij@balticmill.com NOTES TO EDITORS 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 info@balticmill.com www.balticmill.com Opening hours: Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 18.00 (excluding Tuesday) Tuesday 10.30 – 18.00 ADMISSION FREE