Eastside Projects launched last Friday with the new exhibition This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things. The European conflict map was an interesting idea, even if it did look like the police outline of a dead dinosaur’s body, and I really enjoyed Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink City films. But unusually no-one there was talking about the art, but the space housing it. It’s set to evolve over the next 9 weeks to house ‘a layered and complex gathering of artworks, events and processes’. The real highlight for me was the office space, the artwork Pleasure Island created by Heater & Ivan Morrison in this picture by Pete Ashton. It’s like a jagged, angular little house on the prairie and I’m very jealous of the people who get to work within it.
