Intelligent and inquisitive, Corridor8 is a slickly designed journal whose mission is to provide its readers with knowledge of contemporary visual art and writing in the North of England. In 2012 the journal breaks itself into 4 quarterly parts to lead the reader through major hubs of creativity across the North.
For Corridor8's issue no. 3.2 launch at S1 Artspace on 30 March 2012, Roger Luckhurst, professor of modern and contemporary literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, spoke for us on avant-garde literature. He revisited Richard Kostelanetz's seminal art and writing publication Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), featured in no. 3.2, and reflected on the contemporary state of the aesthetic avant-garde. Credits Linda Dutton.
As part of the launch of Corridor8 Part 4 of Issue #3 at Manchester Contemporary 2012, writer and broadcaster Bob Dickinson examines the cultural landscape and the visual art in Manchester.
Northern Art Prize nominee James Hugonin talks about his work as part of the launch of Corridor 8 issue no. 3.1 at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Derek speaks of the ethos behind his and Lisa Stansbie's international online literary and art magazine, soanway.org.uk, and its history. He makes reference to the first print edition of soanyway (iss...
For his installation for the 2010 Tatton Biennial, the artist-explorer Neville Gabie brought a 2.5 ton piece of Greenland iceberg to Tatton Park Gardens country estate in Cheshire, UK. Gabie describes...
Iain Sinclair talk at the launch of Corridor8, July 16th 2009, at Urbis Museum of the City, Manchester. Listeners to the talk were privy to a segment of Sinclair's Northern Journey* - a project commis...