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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
Throughout the summer Association will send out a series of invitations to artists in Manchester. Each invite will be a carefully considered gesture and the responses may take the form of a piece of work, conversation, further questions, or in some instances, nothing at all. The artists will arrive at Castlefield Gallery armed with the responses they receive and embark on a week of activity; digesting, collating and responding to their replies. Association is Nina Chua, Ying Kwok and Jessica Longmore. mutuallyadvantageousassociation.blogspot.com
Call Out to Collaborators Launch Event: Wednesday 22 September, 6-8pm – ALL WELCOME
2-8pm + 6pm Discussion
TETHER / MAX WARBURG /CHARLENE LINDBERG / CALVIN SANGSTER / GRIN & SLUTSKY
TANGENTIAL TALKS BY JOANNE MASDING / TOM IRELAND / ANTHONY
PESKINE
/
LESLEY
GUY
Tether have invited artists and collectives from around the UK for an all day event at Max Warburg Manchester (formerly Castlefield Gallery). The
event
is
a
trailer
for
a
larger
project
-‐taking
place
in
2011-‐
which
seeks
to
condense
and
concentrate
the
lifespan
of
a
conventional
curatorial
project
into
a
short
space
of
time
without
compromising
the
amount
of
content
within
the
program.
From
2pm,
Calvin
Sangter
will
reflect
on
sensuality
and
exclusivity,
launching
his
fragrance,
Solve
&
Coagula,
Charlene
Lindberg
will
build
a
moving
wall
while
cocktail
shakers
Grin
&
Slutsky
will
serve
a
new
drink,
The
Black
Swan.
From
6pm,
artists
will
talk
about
a
tangential
passion
in
a
‘soap
box
moment’,
that
visitors
will
be
energised
and
empowered
to
break
free
from
the
shackles
of
their
self-‐doubt
and
join
Max
Warburg
in
speaking
freely
without
inhibition. Subjects covered will be: bugs (true bugs, dead bugs and moths); the Apollo Space Program; Frankenstein; Poodles (drawing on ideas from domestic breeding of pets and our relationship to the natural world, to Eastern European literature and the Devil and the caves at Lascaux); and advertising.
Max Warburg is a curator based in Zurich and London. More at
http://maxwarburggallery.blogspot.com/
Come and go as you wish between 2-6pm and/or join the discussion at 6pm.
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 September, 11am prompt + 6pm Discussion
Inspired by the dérives of the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals, a.a.s. invite you to help them search for the city beneath the city using a combination of I Ching readings and the Paranoid-Critical Method. During The Nomads, a.a.s. intend to change perceptions and lend new significance to two randomly selected sites during each outing and will occupy those parts of the city for several hours.
Join the artists to explore selected parts of central Manchester, leaving Castlefield Gallery at 11am or call 07806 50 27 26 for live updates. aasgroup.net
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present Kate Rich and her project Feral Trade Café to Manchester. Feral Trade is a grocery import-export business, trading food and drink sourced through a range of social networks. For 6 weeks, the Feral Trade Café at Castlefield Gallery will serve up an array of ‘ferally’ traded drinks and snacks along with delivery documentation collected by the artist.
Home and Away is an exhibition including the work of Ting-Ting Cheng, Joanna Zylinska, Chu Yin-Hua, Alexandra Wolkowicz and Barney & Lucy Heywood, who use photography and video to ask poignant questions about spatial identity, geographical belonging and the passage of time. Suspended between dream, memory and imagination, the projects in the exhibition offer a poetic reflection on the movement of bodies and minds across cities, continents and cultures in the age of globalisation.
To coincide with Feral Trade Café, Summer House acts as a temporary ‘2nd home’ or ‘urban retreat’ for collectives and individual artists housing multiple staggered projects and events. Disrupting the conventional exhibition experience, Summer House will be self determining and responsive, testing collaborative and curatorial methods that will remain open to the public throughout.
Summer House will feature: Home and Away | a.a.s.: The Nomads | Tether: DAY ZERO | Association: Call out to Collaborators | Zero Point Collaboration: 4th Annual General Meeting | Malgras|Naudet
For Summer House the gallery will be open Wed – Sun 1-6pm and by appointment.
For further information on Summer House projects and the artists’ groups involved see below.
Film and Video Programme: Among the Nightingales
Screening Dates:
Sat 17 & Sun 18 July, 12 & 2pm
Sat 31 July & Sun 1 August, 12 & 2pm
Sat 28, Sun 29 & Mon 30 August, 12 & 2pm
Venue: Rosetherne Room, Stableyard, Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6QN.
A free coach service will be operating between Manchester and Tatton Park during event weekends, leaving Cornerhouse at 9.45am and 2pm. Further information at Tatton Park Biennial website
Free/Booking recommended. To reserve a place please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.
Artists:
Mounira Al Solh – Lebanon/Netherlands
Jordan Baseman – UK
Oliver Beer – UK
Nina Beier & Marie Lund – Denmark/Germany/UK
Samson Kambalu – UK/Malawi
Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry – UK/Sweden
Ján Mančuška – Czech Republic
Matt Stokes – UK
Pablo Wendel – Germany
Among the Nightingales brings together 9 single channel film and video works by international artists for the Tatton Park Biennial 2010. The works use human relationships and the individual’s existence in relation to wider social groups as their point of departure. The groups are driven by ethereal, social, ideological, or political incentives that sit uncomfortably with mainstream, dominant culture. The artists use a variety stylistic methods in documenting and post-producing; some of the artists document actions performed specifically for the camera, whilst others orchestrate scenarios for individuals to participate in, deliberating the use of film as a constructed narrative and subverting our preconceptions of it.
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Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition A Horse walks into a Bar including work by Corey Arnold, Richard Billingham, Andrew Bracey, Lorraine Burrell, Maddi Nicholson, Dan Staincliffe, Chiz Turnross, UHC and Mark Wallinger. Using a range of media such as video, painting, photography, sculpture and performance, the artists playfully examine the parameters of human and animal characteristics and question the evolution of the human race.
Some of the work blurs the boundaries between nostalgia and abhorrence, referencing the use of animals in the entertainment industry, whilst other work references animals in heraldic, mythological stories. Conventions in visual art practice are also deliberated, highlighting the inter-dependence of living beings in a contemporary world, these range from the allegorical use of animals in traditional regal portraiture to other works that alter our perception of sculpture by fusing animal imagery with mass produced objects.
The exhibition can be seen as reflective of our increasingly uneasy relationship with the natural world that is tainted with confusion, contradiction and confrontation and will oscillate between the playful, sinister, surreal and controversial. Co-curated by Castlefield Gallery staff and Jane Anderson.
A Horse walks into a Bar after preview gig
After A Horse walks into a Bar preview Elfin Spurs and special guest Biltone will perform a shape-shifting set of wonky tunes whilst dressed as spiders and moths. Expect electric cello wig-outs, songs of ‘Mouses’ and ‘Mermaids’.
www.myspace.com/elfinspurs www.myspace.com/biltone
Venue: The Deansgate Pub, Function Room, 321 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4LQ
FREE Call 0161 832 8034 for further enquiries.
In this performance displacement is stretched further as Castlefield Gallery is turned over to the theatre for this special double evening event.
Short excerpts from Luigi Pirandello’s satirical play Six Characters in Search of an Author are spliced together and performed in a 20 minute loop by actors from the Manchester School of Theatre. Each excerpt is repeatedly, yet differently, brought to life as the actors perform multiple roles for the gallery audience. Come and go as you wish.
Cast
Séan Aydon – Actor
Chris Evans – Director
Will Finlason – Actor
Kevin Lennox – The Producer
Sam Lupton – Actor
Natasha McClure – Stepdaughter
Cliff Myatt – Father
Samuel Reed – Son
Ben Seager – Director