Available from 5–9pm Friday 21 October 2011
12–5pm 22–30 October 2011

Various venues in Digbeth, Birmingham

As part of The Event 2011, An Endless Supply are collaborating with New York-based writer Lytle Shaw to produce a publication that continues Shaw’s research into the Chadwicks, ‘a family of connoisseurs, dandies and amateur historians.’ Part reference book and part historical account, it catalogues the furniture collection attributed to mid-twentieth century American anthropologist and spy Clifford Chadwick Clifford, who in the late 1960s went ‘underground’.

Replica pieces of furniture from Clifford Chadwick Clifford’s collection will be produced for two venues at the festival, and will function as both homage and as spaces to present and distribute the publication.

An Endless Supply is a design studio formed by Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham, with a focus on publishing and designing platforms for art production. Recent projects include: ‘Soon All Your Neighbours Will Be Artists’, published by Extra Special People at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; ‘Countersituation’, International Project Space, Birmingham; ‘Business as Usual’, Kiln Projects, Norwich; ‘Again, A Time Machine (A Book Works Touring Exhibition in five parts)’, Spike Island, Bristol and Eastside Projects, Birmingham; ‘Open Books’, Royal College of Art, London (all 2011).

Lytle Shaw is a poet and critic and was co-founder and editor of literary journal Shark and is a contributing editor of Cabinet magazine. Recent presentations of the Chadwicks’ collection include ‘Furling the Spanker: Masterworks from the Chadwicks’ Nautical Collection’, Winkleman Gallery, New York, and ‘Nelson Manobar’, Cabinet, New York (both with artist Jimbo Blachly, 2011). ‘The Chadwick Family Papers (A Brief Public Glimpse)’, written by Shaw and Blachly, was published in 2008 by Periscope, New York.