Long serving member Linda Pittwood is sadly leaving this month, and this creates a rarely seen available space in Red Wire. Linda had one of the better spaces in our group, so if you fancy applying for it please email us at mail@redwireredwire.com.

THE ZINE IS BACK!!!

After an inhumaine wait the Red Wire Zine is coming back, so sales of red thread are set to go through the roof in Liverpool. We already have enough submissions to sink a boat, but the deadline is the 18th December. Send anything you want to redwireredwire@hotmail.co.uk and within weeks you might well be famous.

A bit quiet at the moment

After the 2006 Biennal, we promised ourselves we'd do less next time: we ended up doing far more. Like most artists in Liverpool we're happy as hell the Biennial is over, as we can now relax. Sort of. We are currently planning a Liverpool-wide take over of some galleries in Sheffield. Much more to follow in the near future, as this is mega cool

Soup exhibition

Soup- the Tate staff collective are having a busy Biennial. The next show, which features Red Wire founding member Michael Aitken is in conjunction with The Education Deanary Arts Curriculum at The Gateway Building (Liverpool Hope University). The P.V is on Thurs 27th November and it goes on to 18th February.

A foundation

Brickface are launching a new publication at A Foundation, and to coincide, a number of bands and artists are there for one night only- which includes 5 films of Joshua Tennant eating. Unfortuntely its the same night as Slowness, so you'll have to make a choice

Slowness

The Times have placed Slowness 3rd in its top 5 exhibitions opening this week. This is a massive coup for us, and we hope you can trust them and us and come down on Friday at 6.30. There's a live performance link-up to Bangkok  by Laura Cooper

A bit of banter

There has been a bit of a spate of critical banter regarding The Biennial and the Capital of Culture- not least our own NAN Tour last week. Joshua Tennant can be heard talking about these issues as part of the Portable Radio scheme which is a UK touring podcast to find out about art in 10 different venues. Joshua and Amy Goring can also be seen discussing the CoC in Tenantspin's recent Cultural Commentators, along with Hamish Mclain and Gabriel Stones (The Royal Standard), Jim Buso (NAN Scheme) John O Hare (Wolstenholme Projects) and Ian Jackson (artinliverpool.com) 

NAN Tour and Fear Yourself pics

The Winner Takes it All? Tour was last weekend, which was Red Wire and The Royal Standard showing 35 artists round Liverpool to see whats going on with The Capital of Culture, and theres some pictures here. It resulted in a talk at Static. Also some Fear Yourself pictures are now on Daniels page.

SONGS IN THE KEY OF DANIEL JOHNSTON

To coincide with The Long Night of the Biennial Red Wire will be hosting a fantastic array of music and bands covering Daniel Johnston tracks. The 5 bands/ musicians playing are The Ice King of California, Hackney Carriages, A Cup of Tea, Man in the Dark and The Blind Rabbit Choir. The Event will be in our basement, and will, like the exhibition, be unmissable. If your doing some other thing on this night- really, will it be better than this?

NAN TOUR: THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL?

The Winner Takes It All? Panel discussion, Sunday 26th, 1.45 pm at Static, 23 Roscoe Lane, Liverpool L1 9JD.
 
From Friday, 25 artists will arrive in Liverpool to explore the Capital of Culture. Through their investigations and the experience of The Royal Standard and Red Wire we will discuss the opportunities and meaning the title has for artists. Many of the attending artists have links to other Capitals of Culture including Glasgow (1990) Vilnius (2009) and Istanbul (2010) and as such will make a valuable contribution to the debate.
To book a place at the discussion email info@the-royal-standard.com.
 
If you can't make it you can follow it online at
www.winnertakesitallscheme.blogspot.com

Fear Yourself

Fear Yourself opened on Friday to a great reception. The exhibition looks fabulous- its certainly the best thing we've done, and had changed our perception of what we can do. A couple of previews are available: one from Liverpool.com (I like "Red Wire has come up trumps again!") and a great write up from  Mark Powell of The Metro

No Tickets

We're getting a few emails through about tickets, so this is just a note to say there's no tickets or P.V cards for the Daniel Johnston show- your welcome to come along (as long as your not a tramp or baghead or anything).

The Pitch

The second half of The Pitch, hosted by The Open Eye Gallery is reviewing the progress of the winners on October 7th. As you might remember Amy Goring was one of three artists publicly voted to win the £600 casah prize, and she will be presenting an update.

Some press

Fear Yourself is featured in the present issue of Liverpool.com magazine courtesy of Ian Jackson. Also, whilst reviewing Liverpool International Artists, Nick Holloway also gave kudos to Red Wirer Joshua Tennant's 'The Eating Series' in the Liverpool Metro.

Mike's in the Tate

Mike Aitken is always in the Tate because he works there, but now he is accompanied by his own work as part of the North by Northwest exhibition, which is also showing at Red Wire. Mike's 'Plan some plan over some plan' (last shown at the 5th house exhibition) can be seen in the Tate's hospitality room

Long night of the Biennial

Bands and musicians are queueing up to play at the Long Night of the Biennial- we are going to have a Daniel Johnston night, with musicians own interpretations of his tracks. Theres some names many of you will be familiar with currently being sought. With competition high on whats going on this night- we're confident this will be unmissable
 

Friday night saw the opening of two of our exhibitions- Soup vs the Henry Moore Institute and Crapola Central. The night went well, as there was three exhibitions on in the building (including one in Curve Gallery) there were people mingling all over until 2am.

Dominic Witter and Wendy Legg of JMU design pod have finished compiling the mass of emails I've been sending, and the is being printed today. It'll hopefully be available for the opening of Crapola and Soup vs Peripheral.

Crapola Central & North by Northwest flyers
 
We're only printing 100 of the Crapola flyer, so if you get one, keep it like its a golden diamond, because it might be worth something one day.

Since Red Wire's residency in Paros Joshua Tennant has been making videos of himself eating various foods. What began with Kinder eggs went through 6 other performances (including Baby Bell during Roy Castles...) and has just finihsed with eating 24 hard boiled eggs. The 8 films will be exhibited at Novas C.U.C during the Liverpool Independents Biennial, starting 20th September


Sefton Open
One of the original Red Wire members, Chris Mills has got work in the forthcoming Sefton Open held at the Atkinson Gallery in Southport. The exhibition runs from 20th September- 8th November. Chris has also moved back to Liverpool from Manchester.

Drawing Exhibition

A couple of days before opening a drawing exhibition was organised. It featured Roxy Topia, Paddy Gould, Joe McNulty, Nicola Fitzsimmons and Hannah from Ireland. It went pretty well, we had a relaxed atmosphere and was a kind of continuation of the recent house exhibitions

Roys images

Finally managed to get images from the wonderfully enjoyable Roy Castles Vision of Hell. Check them here

New Work- Chris Mills

'Night Over Clearwater' is the latest in Chris Mill's paintings. It both reflects a continuation of Chris's style and a development from his early work, as his settings which now often are waterscapes, are getting increasingly human- indeed this is the first piece to include a figure.

Roy Castle would have been proud.
Last night saw the opening of Roy Castle's Vision of Hell, a Red Wire organized event at the Wolstenholme. Dominic Witter and Wendy Legg of JMU design pod have finished compliing the mass of emails i've been sending, and the catalogue is being printed today. It'll hopefully be available for the opening of Crapola and Soup vs Peripheral.The night went really well- I mean really really well. This is the second exhibition in a row we've had a fun/ performative element, and both have been really exciting. There more about the exhibition here.


Roy Castle's vision of hell flyer.
Mikes death metal font adorns our latest flyer. Keep your eyes peeled.
Always good to have artinliverpool.com supporting us too

Daniel Johnston in Manchester
If you didn't go to Daniel Johnston playing in Manchester, unlucky.
Daniel was supported by Scout Niblett, James Mcanew (Yo la Tengo), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) all of whom played as his backing band. The show was frigging ace.
In case you didn't know, Daniel is exhibiting in Red Wire on October 17th.


ROY CASTLES VISIONS OF HELL
Amy, Mike, Harry and Josh are going to be exhibiting at The Wolstenholme Projects amongst a whole host of Liverpool artists (including Roxy and Oliver of A Proper Horrorshow). The theme is breaking a record- and this is being stretched every way it'll bend to make peoples projects (bearly) fit in. It opens on the 8th Auguest and should be a hoot

Up and coming
As previously mentioned, Toby Saunders is currently showing in the up and Coming exhibition at Novas C.U.C. A plesent surprise was to see Red Wire Open 2007 exhibitor Helen Blejerman there too.

  
Your Art movie & podcast
Thanks to out Carlisle Building friend Tim Brunsden, Your Art Show was filmed for Liverpool-stories.com. To see us blabbering about the possible meanings of the exhibition and getting covered in paint click here. Thanks to artinliverpool.com for interviewing both artists about their intentions and enjoyment of the exhibition, you can here them here

Link
I've just spotted Red Wire has a link from Daniel Johnston's website- hihowareyou.com advertising his exhibition. Pretty cool
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