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The map/ curtain „Initiative Island“ was installed at Eastside Projects for their inaugural show „This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things“ in 2008. Eastside Projects converted a factory building in the former industrial area of Digbeth in Birmingham into a contemporary art space.

„Initiative Island“ shows a map of public housing projects in Birmingham as a large size curtain. The map differentiaties between demolished buildings, buildings destined to be demolished, and other buildings, which will stay (showing the situation in Birmingham in 2008). It was embroidered by refugees of the House of Integration in Vienna, who are submitted to an unknown future – drawing a reference to the unknown destiny of residents being relocated in Birmingham due to urban renewal processes. The map was embroidered on molleton, a black fabric used for theater backdrops, and was permanently installed as backdrop for shows from 2008-2018.


For the inaugural exhibition in addition two billboards were placed, one on the façade and one in the central exhibition space: „Choose your second life in real life – bid on your future“.

„This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things“, installation views, 2008

Eastside Projects, Birmingham
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things

2008
inaugural exhibition of Eastside Projects

Curated by: Gavin Wade

Artists: Barbara Holub, Ben Kinmont, Bill Drummond, Chen Shaoxiong, Heather & Ivan Morison, Iain Forsyth ] Jane Pollard, ISAN, James Langdon, Jimmy Fantastik, Joseph Hallam, Kelly Large, Laureana Toledo, Lawrence Weiner, Liam Gillick, Magnus Quaife, Marc Bijl, Mark Titchner, Marte Eknaes, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Matthew Harrison, Mithu Sen, Peter Fend, Rain Li, SCUPA, Support Structure

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permanent installation:
2008-2018

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Curtain Show
2010

Curated by: Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade

Artists: Albrecht Schafer, Barbara Holub, Céline Condorelli, Douglas Gordon, Erik Satie, Grace Ndiritu, Hannah James, Ines Schaber, Lilly Reich, Tacita Dean

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"Initiative Island", map, 2008


"Initiative Island", permanent installation at Eastside Projects, 2008-2018 (backdrop/ context for all exhibitions)
Catalog:
Barbara Holub
Initiative Island

EP 1.1
Texts by Gavin Wade and Marjolein Schaaps
includes a 664 x 482 mm fold-out map.
photography by Gavin Wade / Stuart Whipps / Barbara Holub.
Designed by Cornelia Silli
Published by Eastside Projects,
printed by Remaprint, Vienna
166 x 241 mm, 32 pp., full-color, softcover
2009
ISBN 978-1-906753-13-9

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