The Stryx
Unit 13, Minerva Works
Fazeley Street, Digbeth
Birmingham B5 5RS
Exibition opening: Thursday 26 September, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: 7-8pm
Exhibition open: 27-29 September, 12-5pm
FREE
PEA, hosted by Stryx, presents a specially curated film programme from the Enthusiasts: archive, an archive initiated by the artists Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska in 2006. It’s the result of extensive research amongst the remnants of amateur film clubs in Poland under socialism. Presented as a collaborative artwork, the Enthusiasts: archive is a critical archive of beautiful amateur films found, restored and made available on-line through ‘open content’ licenses. The archive enables visitors to explore the generosity of the enthusiast, a generosity that reveals a range of interests and experiences generally invisible amongst the breathless flow of the State sponsored, or professionally mediated. The Enthusiasts: archive is intended to stimulate interest and discussion into the nature of contemporary creative exchange, the function of public archives and the future of the public domain.
PEA (Polish Expats Association)’s Art programme has a strong focus on visual art featuring artists from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as artists interested in the region, its specificity, culture, history and socio-political situation. PEA works with internationally acclaimed as well as early career artists, showing their work during exhibitions and screenings in a pop-up gallery in various locations of Birmingham. This time PEA has teamed up with Stryx, an artist led studio, project and exhibition space in Digbeth, Birmingham.