Opens 5–9pm Friday 1 October 2011
12–5pm 22–30 October 2011

SLICE Distribution Centre,
Unit 12 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street,
Birmingham, B5 5RT

As part of The Event 2011, SLICE presents B42 a series of commissioned print works from a diverse range of national and international artists, responding to the politically charged domain of secularism and religion.

Each contributor is producing new work for dissemination in the first instance as posters, leaflets, pamphlets for The Event and secondly as the first phase of content for a limited edition publication, influenced by the Guttenberg Bible (also known as the B42), the first publication produced in the 15th century to engage with a form of movable type that enabled commercial mass– production of printed material.

The content of the commission’s, present subjective commentary, which adopt a variety of delivery strategies including moralistic narratives, parables, laws, prophetic text and images etc. The curatorial agenda, proposes how in contemporary society we might hope to lead a righteous or good life, relative to the political position that the artist occupies. The work potentially proffers humour, cynicism, irreverence, zealous and utopian perspectives within its content and stylistic tendencies. B42, as a collection of printed and disseminated materials, is influenced by and comments on such concepts as political, societal and moral modes of existence within a digital, cyber networked and on-demand global society.

The print collection will be hand distributed throughout Eastside during The Event echoing the street leafleting of religious groups. The work can also be seen at the SLICE distribution centre.

Artists include: AA Bronson and The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Mona Casey, Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock, Paul McAree, Ryan McClelland and Niall Singh

SLICE is founded by Mona Casey, artist/curator and lecturer. She co-founded and curated COLONY, an artist run space based in Birmingham, UK from 2005-2007. www.colonygallery.com

Since then she has worked as an independent artist/ curator and is on the steering group for the bi-annual artist-led platform ‘The Event’.

SLICE announces its launch as a new project initiative. The first intervention will occur as part of The Event 2011.
www.sliceprojects.org