It’s all gone a bit wild, wild west at Eastside Projects. As you walk in you’re hit with what looks like the set of a spaghetti western. Feature: Architecture is anchored around artist’s Sezad Darwood’s full-length film Feature, which seems to delight in merging genres. I’d never seen a cowboy zombie before.
Beyond the dusty ghost town was the One Day Comic exhibition of art comics (a definition which has in itself caused some debate). Artist Henrik Schrat has developed a comic strip over one day with twelve artists. The twelve comic books created are laid out to read with copies on sale. The far wall is covered in large-scale drawings by Schrat (the one above caught my eye, for some reason) and original pages are displayed on boards. My favourite was Product Clearance:
I was having a kind of arty afternoon yesterday so afterwards I went down the road to see Katarina Zdjelar’s The Perfect Sound at VIVID. It consisted of the ‘single channel video work which investigates the concept of producing the ‘perfect sound’ within the English spoken language’. It did look quite interesting but required some time and concentration, which I just couldn’t hang around and give because the gallery was so freakin’ freezing. I am a bit of a pussy but it really was too cold to sit down and pay attention to the piece – please whack the heating up!
Feature: Architecture and One Day Comic is on display at Eastside Projects until 31 January 2009. Katarina Zdjelar’s The Perfect Sound is at VIVID until 20 December.
