and speaking of Matt Murtagh – here’s a beautiful set of images he took at the event with one shown below to tempt you (featuring headline band, The Cracked Actors who, it has to be said, rocked the joint!).
One of the characteristics of Project X is that we stretch ourselves and try and achieve an awful lot at the same time. This tends to mean that not everything works all the time (tho thankfully most things do!). At least we know this means we are pushing ourselves.
One thing that unfortunately didnt come together (due to technical issues and time constraints) for Xhibition was the printing of Matt Murtaghs photography piece – which was particularly disappointing as he had produced it specially for our event.
However, its a fine piece of work and will hopefully have a life long beyond this moment in time.
It takes the form of a photographic panorama of Moseley Village and it can be seen here in, as Matt puts it “full Google Maps wrap-around-o-vision (with zooming!)”.
Can be found here : – Photos from Rob Nicholas and Alina Ha
And the footage of Rich playing live from Australia can be found here
Thank you to everyone who came along to, took part, helped put on and enjoyed X-LAB:VL on Friday at Concrete. A successful night if eye witness reports are to be believed. I have to make do with the photos for now which you can find here:
http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/pxpxlab/
but I look forward to your reports and reviews.
Anyone who gave us their email address will be entered into a prize draw for two pairs of tickets to our next show on Saturday 14th June 2008.
More details to be announced in mid March.
Some reviews are in from the show – with hopefully a couple more to come:
First a preview from John Mitchell in the Guardian Guide who talks about how we include aroma amongst our “sensual attractions” and refers to “a great roster of acts”.
The most detailed review to emerge so far is from Stefan Kucharczyk in the Birmingham Post “With a disturbing, lurching assault on the senses, Project X is an intelligent and unique show destabilising the established role of the “spectator” in performance theatre and drawing you into an impressively eclectic and complex mix of art forms”. full article including Gigbeth comment here.
The local blogging community have been at work too – Project X Participant Marc Reck reported in after the dress rehearsal and again just before the show and once more after the main event.
Rich Batsford also offered up a review of the dress rehearsal.
Robin Valk speaks of “Enormous, generous and involved musicianship that jumped boundaries effortlessly.” in his commentary.
Joanna Geary comments that “the night summed up what Birmingham is capable of when it pulls its cultures and its talent together. It’s something we need to do much more of and it’s great to see people in the city trying to make it happen.”
Dr Andy Pryke offers some brief comment and nice pics from the dress rehearsal of what he refers to as “multi-faceted box of delights”.
Jon Bounds of the website “Birmingham Its Not Shit gives a brief thumbs up to “the effort put into Project X” in his round of favourite things from Gigbeth.
Pete Ashton picks up on Matt Murtagh’s fine photographic work in our “quite marvelous 6 hour onmi-media performance marathon” and wisely suggests you view the images “as a slideshow with music from Einstellung’s MySpace playing.”
Meanwhile on Pete’s “Created in Birmingham” blog he points to Matt Murtaghs fine set of photos of the evening as a whole.
Pete also links to his own evocative photos taken using what he describes as his “through the viewfinder contraption“.
We also have our own group up on flickr where you can see some of our own photos particularly of the build in production week and the after show party.
If you want to view all the photos of our events on flickr just search for everything tagged with “projectxpresents“ – there are 589 to choose from at the time of writing.
If you were at the event and have reviewed in any way, or would like to, then do please contact us on “info at projectxpresents dot com”