review – Soi Project’s Island

Soi Project – Island
Ikon Eastside, Birmingham, UK

Soi Project’s Island was not conveniently reached except by taxi, through an unlovely set of light industrial streets clearly earmarked for ‘cultural development’ by the local council. However, arriving at the Ikon Gallery’s newest offsite space, in Birmingham’s East Side, it was impossible not to marvel at the contrast – at least when I visited, on the most assiduously wet day of the year – with the fact that I was visiting a tropical Thai island. (Surely the gallery marketing department’s easiest sell ever.)

Interview about Disclosures

undo.net: Since 29th March 2008 you have been presenting at Gasworks (London) Disclosures, a project that looks at the manifestations of Open Source methodologies outside of the Internet. Why do you think that the Open Source world can be related to art?

Breda Beban in conversation with Mia Jankowicz

Breda Beban: While filming or taking photos, I tend to go blank. Editing becomes a process of trying to make sense out of the material generated. I think that my films become films when, after looking at the footage a pattern emerges and then the meaning is created.