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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
Student-led tour of Archives at Play
13/04/2022 / 2pm-2:45pmJoin Art History students from the University of Manchester on a short tour of Archives at Play as they share … Read more
Entangling Art, Activism and Everyday Life in the Capitalocene
16/04/2022 / 14:00-17:00A Presentation and Workshop on Zoom by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), the … Read more
Bright Lights from Giant Wheels by Chester Tenneson: Performance & Activity
19/03/2022 / 4pm-5pmIn this hands-on event, artist Chester Tenneson will begin by introducing the work he has made for the Archives at … Read more
Kelly Jayne Jones
19/04/2022 / 6:30pmFor Castlefield Gallery Associates only Kelly Jayne Jones is a Manchester based artist making work that combines performance, installation and … Read more
Touching the Archive by Sarah-Joy Ford – Reading and Conversation
17/03/2022 / 5:30pm-7pmTo coincide with the Archives at Play exhibition, artist and researcher Sarah-Joy Ford will read her text about archives; how … Read more
Nature, Archive & Anarchy
21/04/2022 / 6pm-8:30pmA conversation with Marion Smith & Pooja Kishinani, followed by performances by Kelly Jayne Jones & Hannah Ellul In an evening … Read more
CANCELLED – Dr. Yan Wang Preston in-conversation with Thomas Dukes
10/04/2022 / 3pm-4pmEVENT CANCELLED Dr. Yan Wang Preston introduces the photographic series, English Gardens, and talks about her research into why the … Read more
Archives at Play: Curators Tour
19/03/2022 / 2pm-3pmJoin the curator of Archives at Play Thomas Dukes, and Castlefield Gallery curator & deputy director Matthew Pendergast for a tour of … Read more
Archives at Play: Curators Tour
17/03/2022 / 2pm-3pmJoin the curator of Archives at Play Thomas Dukes, and Castlefield Gallery curator & deputy director Matthew Pendergast for a tour … Read more
Archives at Play
06/03/2022Archives at Play is an exhibition exploring our relationship with the past, and how this informs the way we make the future. At a time when it is more important than ever to challenge inherited ideas about ecology, equality, and identity, this exhibition uses archival structures – the ways we hold and engage with the past – as a tool for questioning the worlds we find ourselves within. Read more