AV Festival 10 Launch, Newcastle Civic Centre. Photo © Louise Hepworth
AV Festival opens with 24 continuous hours of exhibition openings and events across the North East.
The exhibition launches across NewcastleGateshead take place from 9am-3pm on Fri 1 March. All 10 venues are open for these six-hours, so you can make your way across them all.
Starting with a live stream of Buzz the moon goose; a slowly rotating flip of a coin; and celestial sound cycles at the Civic. Towards Monument a real car slowly crashes; vinyl records play at glacial pace; a candle is lit; and synthetic futures are conjured. Across town pipes and foghorns sound, we are asked to breath slowly, and then all read a million years in Gateshead.
Julien Maire, Hatton Gallery
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Great North Museum: Hancock
Susan Stenger, The Civic Centre
Jonathan Schipper/Locus +, 16 Saville Row
Jem Finer, The NewBridge Space
Torsten Lauschmann, Laing Art Gallery
Sneha Solanki + Marina Zurkow, Vane
Yoshi Wada, Discovery Museum
Benedict Drew, CIRCA Site
On Kawara, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Running concurrently from midnight throughout the day and night is Leif Inge’s 9 Beet Stretch: Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony stretched to 24-hours at Star and Shadow Cinema.
The 24-Hour Launch is FREE, no booking required. Join us for 24-hours, or drop-in at any time.
The 24-Hour Launch is preceded by a FREE symposia at mima, exploring ideas of slowness and resistant temporalities in contemporary art and culture with guest speakers philosopher Eric Alliez, culture and music critic Paul Morley, performance art specialist and writer Laura Cull, and film theorist and philosopher John Mullarkey, plus festival artists.
The Opening Weekend programme of concerts and screenings starts at 7.45pm on Fri 2 March with Phill Niblock’s The Movement of People Working at The Sage Gateshead.
FREE
Fri 2 March, 9am–3pm
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Phill Niblock: The Movement of People Working
Fri 2 March
