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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
The Social Lives of Objects -Tour and Discussion
18/06/2009 / 18:00 - 20:00Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz will discuss some of the themes within the exhibition and their wider practice.
FREE ADMISSION-BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
The Social Lives of Objects
29/05/2009Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present The Social Lives of Objects brings together the work of three artists based in Manchester and London, Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz.
The exhibition examines the complex relationship we have with material goods and explores the journeys that objects make from production and consumption towards obsolescence and decay.
Working across media using found material collected from a variety of sources, the artists’ work is drawn together by their exploration of the social lives of everyday objects, and their interpretation of the essay by Bruno Latour Mixing Humans and Non Humans Together; The Sociology of the Door Closer.
The exhibition references social and anthropological research, museum display, personal memory and hints at the history and destiny of the objects the artists have chosen to work with. Plucked from the brink of oblivion these everyday objects are reformed and represented as sculptural installations, public interventions and wall based work, their status raised and their meaning changed.
A dark and playful narrative runs throughout the work which prods the subconscious and references the powerful and poetic relationship we have with material goods in a world overflowing with ‘stuff’.
Panel DiscussionWith artists Ackroyd & Harvey and James Marriott
14/05/2009 / 18:00 - 20:00Date: Thursday 14 May 2009
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Castlefield Gallery
FREE ADMISSION-BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
This discussion between ecological activist James Marriott from Platform and the artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey will elaborate upon and accompany their Beuys Acorn project which will be presented as part of the Environment 2.0 exhibition at CUBE for Futuresonic 2009.
One and All Panel DiscussionWith Heidi Schaefer, Grennan & Sperandio, Jil Moore and Hafsah Naib
30/04/2009 / 18:00 - 20:00Date: Thursday 30 April 2009
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Castlefield Gallery
FREE ADMISSION-BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Exploring the themes of the One and All exhibition, this discussion will look into how the artists approached their subject.
One and All Curated by Alison Kershaw
03/04/2009Castlefield Gallery presents One and All, a group show that brings together seven North West based artists Grennan & Sperandio, Jo Lewington, Jil Moore, Hafsah Naib, Joe Richardson, William Titley and Andrew Wilson who have produced new work by examining, interacting and interrogating the structures and themes of community networks and urban regeneration. Through the use of video, sculpture and painting the show explores aspects of life in an urban environment examining, collective consciousness, isolation, nostalgia and our understanding of ‘culture’. The work will explore the way artists’ engage with the subject of community, demonstrating a model of “usefulness” of contemporary practice to another realm of life that lies in revealing the insights of the individual into an apparently democratic entity.
Manuel Saiz Screening Programme
11/02/2009 / 18:30 - 20:00Date: Wednesday 11 February 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Cervantes Institute, 326/330 Deansgate, Campfield Avenue Arcade, Manchester, M3 4FN
FREE ADMISSION-BOOKING REQUIRED. To book please call the Cervantes Institute on 0161 661 4200 or email cultman@cervantes.es with your contact details and number of places.
Accompanying the work in the exhibition will be a diverse programme of Saiz’s film and video work spanning his career.
Manuel Saiz: Private Party. Keep Out.
06/02/2009Castlefield Gallery in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes Manchester are pleased to be launching Private Party. Keep Out, a solo show of new and existing work by Spanish born, London based artist Manuel Saiz. Using video, performance and sculpture, Saiz’s work addresses the identity of the artist and the way in which s/he interacts with the institution, the audience and society at large. Exploring existing relationships usually taken for granted in the contemporary art world, Saiz reverses our inherent presumptions with a ‘tongue in cheek’ perversity using the relationship between the artist, technician, institution, art theory and fellow artists as a starting point.
Manuel Saiz and Marko Daniel in conversationand launch of Manuel Saiz’s new book 101 Excuses
06/02/2009 / 18:00 - 20:00Date: Friday 6 February 2009
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Castlefield Gallery
FREE ADMISSION – BOOKING REQUIRED. To book please call 0161 832 8034 or email
events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.
Marko Daniel, Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern will discuss with Saiz his recent films and videos in relation to his wider work from installation to ephemera.
BOOK LAUNCH and TALKThe Stuff of Images: Laura WhiteIf I had a Monkey I wouldn’t need a TV
22/01/2009 / 18:00 - 20:00Venue: Castlefield Gallery
FREE ADMISSION-BOOKING REQUIRED
Laura White will give a guided tour of the exhibition followed by the book launch of The Stuff of Images: Laura White.