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SERIPOP
A weekend of printmaking, illustration and live music
Friday 31 July – Sunday 2 August
Level 1 Performance Space and Cinema


BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a three day event with Canadian art duo, Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August 2009. Seripop artists Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau have joined forces with guest curator Sophie Brown to bring a weekend of design, print, illustrations and live music to BALTIC.

Seripop’s installation of two and three dimensional psychedelic screen prints and
illustrations will be housed in BALTIC’s Level 1 Performance Space, creating a unique
environment for performances from 10 live music bands over two nights, including Lum
and Desranleau’s very own band Hamborghinni. The live music will come from the
likes of Cleckhuddersfax, drawing influences from the weirdest corners of punk, prog,
synth pop and disco to create a unique sound which mixes up experiment and fun in equal measures; Beards from Leeds who dress in homemade costumes and face paint making a theatrical performance; Birmingham based Phil Duckworth and Ben Sadler aka juneau brothers, who sing and play handmade electronic sculptural instruments inspired by folk history and Newcastle based modern folk trio Les Cox (sportifs).










FULL LIVE MUSIC LINE UP ANNOUNCED

FRIDAY 31 JULY, DOORS: 7.30PM
Spin Spin the Dogs
juneau brothers
Les Cox (sportifs)
A Middle Sex
Blood Oracles

SATURDAY 1 AUGUST, DOORS 7.30PM
Hamborghinni (Lum & Desranleau)
Cleckhuddersfax
Beards
Roseanne Barrr
Jazzfinger

Tickets for both gigs can now be purchased in advance in person from BALTIC Shop or
online from:
TICKET BOOKING INFORMATION
Friday 31 July and Saturday 1 August 2009, Doors: 7.30pm
Price: £8.00 / £6.00 (Cons) + 10% booking fee
Tickets are available from
WE GOT TICKETS
www.wegottickets.com


Seripop are driven by a DIY underground music scene and create posters and artwork for their own band AIDS Wolf and other musicians. From this they have spearheaded an exciting independent art scene, which is more familiar outside of traditional gallery spaces.
Seripop are concerned with experimenting with surrealist imagery on their own terms
instead of creating commercial artwork. In despite of this their prints and designs have become very collectable and these young artists are forming a vibrant and successful international scene.


In addition to the live music programme Seripop’s installation will be free to view during gallery hours on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August and will be accompanied by a free film programme which will be shown in the adjacent cinema.

A free fanzine for the event has been created by ‘zine makers Ricochet! Ricochet! and
Craft Club and will be available alongside other Seripop merchandise and silkscreened
posters from a fanzine distro stall located on Level 1 for the entire weekend. It will also offer works from North East fanzine makers with an opportunity to buy prints from the best of current UK screenprinters.

BALTIC Shop will also be selling Seripop prints and associated merchandise, with
products also available to buy online here .




SERIPOP at NORTHERN PRINT BIENNALE
Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 August 2009

BALTIC has joined forces with
Northern Print Biennale to offer even more Seripop events. Northern Print Biennale is a major international event for contemporary printmaking taking place across Newcastle upon Tyne; as part of the Biennale, Seripop will be resident at Northern Print creating a new screen print, which will be available to buy from BALTIC Shop. On Monday 3 August, Seripop will host a basic screen printing workshop for 6 people (suitable for age 14+) at Northern Print priced at £10.00 per person and on Tuesday 4 August at 6.15pm they will host a FREE talk about their
work at BALTIC.

SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP AT NORTHERN PRINT
Monday 3 August, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Priced: £10.00


SERIPOP TALK AT BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Tuesday 4 August, 6.15pm
Price: FREE

To book for both events please contact:
E: learning@balticmill.com or T: 0191 440 4919

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For further information please contact:
Ann Cooper, Media Officer T: 0191 440 4915 E: annc@balticmill.com
Nikki Johnson, Communications Assistant T: 0191 440 4912 E: nikkij@balticmill.com



NOTES TO EDITORS
SERIPOP
Seripop are Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum. They live in Montreal, Canada and
work from the cooperative studio One Hundred Sided Die. Originally working in video
and performance, they started making handmade posters for their own band AIDS Wolf
in 2001 and soon were making posters for the majority of bands in the DIY, Punk, Noise,
Art Rock scene such as Lightning Bolt, USA is a Monster, TV on the Radio, XBXRX,
and Black Dice. Recently they have been creating large installations with their prints and
folded paper sculptures to transform a space where they wish to immerse the viewer in
their colourfully, distorted and saturated world.

Sophie Brown is a freelance curator and promoter based in London. Ensconced in the
DIY music scene, she has previously presented exhibitions at Three Colts Gallery,
Whitechapel Project Space and Oslo’s Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter concerned with the
meeting point between music, performance and art.





NORTHERN PRINT BIENNALE
Initiated by Northern Print in partnership with Culture10, Northern Print Biennale is the
first major competition and exhibition of contemporary printmaking in the UK for almost
20 years. Newcastle Gateshead will celebrate contemporary and historical printmaking
through a broad programme of exhibitions and events. 26 June to 4 October 2009. For
further details visit www.northernprint.org.uk

BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art situated on the south bank
of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England. BALTIC presents a constantly changing,
distinctive and ambitious programme of exhibitions and events, and is a world leader in
the presentation, commissioning and communication of contemporary visual art.
BALTIC has welcomed over 3 million visitors, since opening to the public in July 2002.


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