Events

Ikon Eastside presents Graham Gussin and Surasi Kusolwong

17 August – 10 September, (Thurs - Sun) 1pm – 5pm

Venue: Ikon Eastside is The Chapel & Sunday School, 181 Fazeley Street, on the corner of Floodgate Street. Admission is free.
www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Box Office: 0121 248 0708

Ikon Gallery continues its stunning season of work at Ikon Eastside, its annexe in Birmingham’s Eastside regeneration district, with a new work by Graham Gussin and a series of installations by Thai artist Surasi Kusolwong. Ikon’s programme of international cutting edge contemporary art will continue to the end of October 2006.

Graham Gussin Spill
Filmed at night on Mitcham Common, South East London, the film reveals a neglected scrubland, with clues of the city shining in the distance. As the work unfolds, a fog silently rolls in amongst grassland and grafittied buildings, evoking a feeling of the uncanny and a shift in movement from the natural to the supernatural. There is a tense ambiguity about this presence, as it drifts and swirls, encroaching on the edge of suburbia. Then, almost as mysteriously as it arrived, the fog retreats only to reappear as the film loops.

Surasi Kusolwong
Surasi Kusolwong’s work encourages audience participation, blurring the boundaries between art and life. This Bangkok-based artist makes installations that recall scenes within local markets and massage parlours, playing on Western expectations of Asia. For the Sydney Biennale in 1998, Kusolwong’s theme was the street market, now being rapidly replaced with the supermarket or convenience store. At the street market, money was not important and objects were exchanged or given away freely instead. For Ikon Eastside, he will be presenting a new commission that is currently being devised.