Lauren Velvick

Nov 29, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Lauren Velvick

We are exciting to announce that we are expanding our coverage into the Midlands with the help of funding from Innovate UK. We’re on the look out for Supported Content partnerships, new editors and writers based throughout the Midlands! We’ll be operating in more-or-less the same way, just with more people, more art, more writing and therefore more ideas.

Sep 8, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Lauren Velvick

Corridor8 Director Lauren Velvick speaks to José Garcia Oliva, a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist who is based in London and was recently commissioned by Lancaster Arts for the participatory project and exhibition Traces. Oliva’s practice reacts to hidden socio-political oppressions, exposing them through participatory performances or public interventions. The outcome of his work is usually an enactment of social exchanges or provocations shaped by the commons, site-specificity and spontaneity.

Jun 17, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Lauren Velvick

A new experimental writing group from Art Network North East and Corridor8 in partnership with Baltic’s Artist Development Programme. Are you an artist, a writer, an art writer, looking for a space to create experimental art writing? Fancy experimenting with new forms and processes? Do you want to share your work with a group, get some feedback, and hear new ideas?

Sep 24, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Lauren Velvick

It’s been an eventful three years for Corridor8 (and, admittedly, everybody else). In 2020 we launched our Supported Content commissioning model as an experiment in finding ways to ensure fair payment for our writers and ourselves. We didn’t know if it would work, but it did, surprisingly well, and for that we can thank the organisations, curators and artists across the North who’ve chosen to invest financially and share our vision, along with the writers and editors who’ve done the work.

Jul 14, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Lauren Velvick

Over a gloriously sunny weekend in June this year the Corridor8 team convened for our away weekend. This semi-annual tradition serves as a way to explore and highlight some of the more remote arts organisations in the North of England, particularly those providing space for residencies and offering spaces for experimentation in other ways of living and being – the theme of many an exhibition over the past few years.