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Autumn Programme September November 2011

CIRCA Projects is a not-for-profit visual arts organisation that presents work by international contemporary artists, through exhibitions, screenings, talks and new commissions, across the North East of England. The 2011-12 programme launches in September, and has three strands: Screen, Site and Works. Ranging across both time-based and lens-based media, the programme features artists working with video and film, sound, photography, installation and performance. CIRCA Projects new programme will add to the regions international standing as a centre for contemporary art in the UK. CIRCA Screen is a new venue dedicated to film and video. A liminal space between gallery and cinema, Screen presents a programme of single-screen artists film and video, promoting dialogue around the ways in which artists work with the moving image and the screen. The autumn programme of events will feature an exclusive presentation of the Jarman Awards Touring Programme 2011 (13 Sept), followed by exhibitions by internationally renowned sculptor Eric Bainbridge (21 Sept 21 Oct) and London-based conceptual artist Doug Fishbone (27 Oct 25 Nov). CIRCA Site presents a series of temporal off-site projects that extend the dialogues set in motion at CIRCA Screen. Site explores how artists continue to work with lens-based art forms while also engaging with three-dimensional space, blurring the distinctions between artistic practices and ways of working. In autumn, CIRCA Site will present Seeing in the Dark a group show celebrating and exploring the legacy of influential artist-run groups from the 1970s and 80s, such as Newcastles Ayton Basement and Basement Group, and Londons 2B Butlers Wharf. Seeing in the Dark (20 Oct 12 Nov) will present archival and new works by some of the most innovative artists at work in the UK. CIRCA Works is a series of site-specific micro-residencies for artists based in NorthEast England. Based in the Stephenson Works building, a national industrial heritage site where the worlds first locomotive, the Rocket, was built, it offers artists the time and space to develop new and existing areas of their practice and research. The first artist selected for the CIRCA Works residency and commission opportunity is Gateshead born artist Kate Liston.

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Visitor Information CIRCA Screen The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX Opening Hours: Monday Friday 10 am 5 pm circaprojects.org
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CIRCA Screen is a new venue dedicated to film and video. A liminal space between gallery and cinema, Screen presents a programme of single-screen artists film and video, promoting dialogue around the ways in which artists work with the moving image and the screen.

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The Jarman Award On Tour and Launch Event

13 September 6 -9 pm (Plus Q & A with nominated artist Ed Atkins 8.00 pm) CIRCA Screen will launch its programme with an exclusive opportunity to see the work of this years Jarman Award nominees; The Jarman Award, now in its fourth year, celebrates and recognises artist-film makers whose risk-taking work resists boundaries and conventional definition - work that encompasses innovation, excellence and vision. This is the first time The Jarman Award will visit the North East of England, before the anouncement of the winner of this much coveted prize at Londons Whitechapel Gallery in October. The winner of the annual Award not only receives a 10,000 cash prize, they also win a broadcast commission - to produce a series of film artworks for Channel 4. This is the only award of its kind where an artist is rewarded with both financial assistance to enable them to flourish and the phenomenal opportunity to broadcast their work on national television. The 2011 Jarman shortlisted artists are Ed Atkins, Clio Barnard, Claire Hooper, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Torsten Lauschmann Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Corin Sworn, Imogen Stidworthy. The screening event will also feature a live Q & A with nominated artist Ed Atkins. In addition, shortlisted artists Anja Kirschner & David Panos will present their new feature-length work The Empty Plan at CIRCA Screen on 27 September 6-8pm.

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Eric Bainbridge Video Show

21 September 21 October 2011 (20 September 6 - 9 pm Artist Talk and Preview) Following the launch event, the first exhibition at CIRCA Screen will present the video works of acclaimed British sculptor Eric Bainbridge. Over the past 35 years, Eric Bainbridge has created an extensive body of work and become best known for his sculptures and collages, which have been exhibited internationally, including at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (1986), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1989), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003) and recently in Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London (2010) Bainbridges video works remain a relatively unconsidered aspect of practice, although he first began using video to document objects and incidents in the studio nearly twenty years ago, at a time when his entire way of working was changing dramatically. The exhibition Video Show brings together a number of these works and is the first time they have been shown as stand-alone projections, presented in a cinematic context. The preview event will also feature Eric Bainbridge In conversation with British Art Show 7 artist and Modern British Sculpture co-curator, Keith Wilson at 7.30 pm.

Visitor Information CIRCA Screen The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX Opening Hours: Monday Friday 10 am 5 pm circaprojects.org

CIRCA Projects is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, registered company no. 7689338

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CIRCA Site presents a series of temporal off-site projects that extend the dialogues set in motion at CIRCA Screen. Site explores how artists continue to work with lens-based art forms while also engaging with three-dimensional space, blurring the distinctions between artistic practices and ways of working.

Seeing in the Dark A Group Show

20 October 12 November 2011 (Preview 19 October 6 9 pm) Seeing in the Dark is an exhibition and series of events inspired by artist-run groups from the 1970s and 80s, such as Newcastles Ayton Basement and Basement Group, and Londons 2B Butlers Wharf. These groups were formed by artists with diverse practices (music, performance, film and video) inhabiting vacant industrial spaces to produce opportunistic and eclectic events - their work resonates through and connects to the hybrid nature of many contemporary media and performance artists work today. Seeing in the Dark will create a new experimental space, on the fourth floor of Curtis Mayfield House) to celebrate and explore the influence and legacy of these 70s and 80s artist-run spaces, and extend their practice into the present with a contemporary focus. Seeing in the Dark will feature works connected to the groups of the past alongside current artists whose cross-disciplinary practice reverberates with their spirit; in doing so it will bring together historical and contemporary moving image and live performance by some of the most innovative artists working in the UK, from the past thirty years to the present day. Throughout Seeing in the Dark, there will be live performances by artists including Heather Phillipson, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Peter Todd, Rhodri Davies, Benedict Drew and Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo.

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Visitor Information CIRCA Screen The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX Opening Hours: Monday Friday 10 am 5 pm CIRCA Site Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6UF Opening Hours: Thursday Saturday 11 am 5 pm CIRCA Works Stephenson Works, 20 South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PE Opening Hours: By appointment only circaprojects.org

CIRCA Works is a series of site-specific micro-residencies for artists based in North-East England. Based in the Stephenson Works building, a national industrial heritage site where the worlds first locomotive, the Rocket, was built, it offers artists the time and space to develop new and existing areas of their practice and research.

Kate Liston Residency Programme

August October 2011 (Preview event: 19 October 5 7 pm) The first artist selected for the CIRCA Works residency and commission opportunity is Gateshead born artist Kate Liston. Following her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art, London, Liston has developed a site responsive practice that combines chance encounters, subjective observations and historical inquiry in equal measure where sculpture, video, writing, codes, symbols and structures provide a complex vocabulary to map space. Listons residency will take place throughout August and will include a period of time working in Beijing with Red Mansion Foundation, London, before returning to Stephenson Works to complete a period of new work and research. This will result in a one-off open studio exhibition in connection with Seeing in the Dark.

CIRCA Projects is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, registered company no. 7689338

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Notes for Editors
CIRCA Projects is not-for-profit organisation, founded by directors Sam Watson and Adam Phillips. CIRCA Screen is a new arts venue dedicated to showing artists film and video works, and supported by Sunderland City Council, Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council England in partnership with University of Sunderland. Its exhibitions are curated by CIRCA directors Sam Watson and Adam Phillips. The Jarman Awards On Tour will be presented at 6 UK venues throughout September, before the awards anouncement at Whitechapel Gallery, London in October. This is the first time a major artists film and video programme has travelled to the North East of England. Other venues include FACT, Liverpool and CCA Glasgow. The Jarman Award is organised and funded by Film London Artists Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Channel 4 and Arts Council England. The group show Seeing In The Dark, presented in Newcastle upon Tyne as part of the site-specific programme CIRCA Site, is curated by Sam Watson, Adam Phillips, and Artist, Writer and Theorist, Steven Ball; British Artists Film & Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. CIRCA Works residencies are curated and managed by Dawn Bothwell. CIRCA will be launching a series of limited edition prints with artists from its programme at the NewcastleGateshead Art Fair with all profits going towards CIRCAs region-wide programme of contemporary art, supporting artists work in the region and beyond. Eric Bainbridge is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and Galleria Caroline + Salvatore Ala, Milan. Programme Partners: Bridge + Tunnel Productions Channel 4 Contemporary Art Society North East Dickinson Dees LLP Film London Artists Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) Jack Lowe Studio Locus+ The Mining Institute Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Silverlink Holdings PLC University of Sunderland Whitechapel Gallery, London Funding Partners: Arts Council of England, North East Henry Moore Foundation Sunderland City Council

Notes for Editors

Visitor Information CIRCA Screen The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX Opening Hours: Monday Friday 10 am 5 pm CIRCA Site Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6UF Opening Hours: Thursday Saturday 11 am 5 pm CIRCA Works Stephenson Works, 20 South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PE Opening Hours: By appointment only circaprojects.org

For further press information, please contact Adam Phillips 07968 008 569 adam@circaprojects.org

CIRCA Projects is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, registered company no. 7689338