KIOSK ki•osk a small portable and adaptable cubicle from which papers, refreshments and events are distributed.

Capital Art Projects has developed kiosk to broadcast audio and visual information to a wide audience in a variety of different contexts. The concept for the structure and its programme has strong associations with the Russian Constructivist’s multifunctional ‘agitation stands’ and kiosks of the 1920s as a tool for circulating propaganda. At specific times during ‘The Event’, KIOSK will inhabit the streets of Birmingham broadcasting information about the festival’s activities and providing a place for conversation, exchange and a platform for activity. Capital Art Projects has invited a range of artists and curators to respond to KIOSK through a variety of event-based activities including performances, workshops and broadcasts. Equally effective whilst stationary or mobile, kiosk’s interior and exterior have been developed to accommodate a wide range of uses, including audio broadcast, printing, and dispensing food, while it can also be employed as a meeting place. Depending on each activity, the KIOSK will be reconfigured to provide an open, closed, sheltered, shared or intimate space. Through public engagement and collaboration additional uses for KIOSK will be explored.

KIOSK has been developed by Capital Art Projects, and its design and construction has been realised in collaboration with artist/designer Jon Roome.

For further information about KIOSK’s activities throughout ‘The Event’ please visit
www.capitalartprojects.org.uk/kiosk
info(at)capitalartprojects.org.uk

Saturday 31 March / 1 – 6pm
Centre of Attention
Chamberlain Square
Winnebago’—Pierre Coinde and Gary O’Dwyer of Centre of Attention will sit for members of the public wishing to draw them.

Sunday 1 April / 11 – 5pm
Discriminating Gentlemen’s Club
Chamberlain Square
Artist collective Discriminating Gentlemen’s Club will use the KIOSK as a platform for a new performance piece.

Friday 6 April / 11 – 5pm
Thornton-Pitt Investigates
The Bullring Markets
A participatory project with Trevor Pitt and Clare Thornton who will temporarily transform the Kiosk into a bureau of investigation.

Saturday 7 April / 1 – 5pm
Frances Bossom
Ikon Gallery, Brindleyplace
Drop-in print workshop in response to Ikon’s current exhibition.

Sunday 8 April / 1 – 4pm
Jon Roome and Tova Holmes
Various city centre locations
A choreographed performance representing ritualised functions with hybrid
cleaning machines.

Saturday 14 April / 11 – 4pm
Capital Art Projects
Participating venues
Home-made edibles prepared and freely distributed by Capital Art Projects accompanied by audio snippets from the modulate sound café.

Sunday 15 April / 11 – 5pm
Tom and Simon Bloor
Centenary Square
Artists Tom and Simon Bloor transform the kiosk into an artist studio for the day, exploring the history of the ‘kiosk’ through print.