Summer House

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.

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Summer House @ Castlefield Gallery: Zero Point Collaboration: 4th Annual General Meeting

Responding to a perceived lack of ʻfreeʼ available meeting space in city centre locations, Zero Point investigates the ʻart of the meetingʼ, exploring how a collaboration can be negotiated when both the group and the project start at ‘zero’. This year the AGM will take place at Castlefield Gallery in full view of the observing public, minuted by invited volunteers, posted to Skype and webcast live. Previous meetings have taken place in cafes, bars and parks.

On Friday 1 October, Zero Point Collaboration invite artists to book the meeting facility. Email zeropointcollaboration@gmail.com. The public can come and go as they wish during normal gallery opening hours.

Zero Point Collaboration members are Ana Benlloch, Ellie Harrison, Matt Lewis, Niki Russell, Stuart Tait and Dan Williamson.
ellieharrison.com /
nikirussell.com /
aasgroup.net /
anabenlloch.net /
stuarrttait.com /
reactorweb.com /
lewisworks.info

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Summer House @ Castlefield Gallery: Malgras|Naudet

The artists who have come together for this project will link Castlefield Gallery with an artist led space in Monterrey, Mexico, transforming both spaces into franchises of the commercial art gallery Malgras|Naudet. The artists will begin by using shamanic Mexican ceremonies to bring Malgras and Naudet to life from the pages of Zola’s novel The Masterpiece before turning the galleries in to temporary homes for their dealerships. The project will culminate in the presentation of the works made in an exhibition entitled The American Trick in which one work will hang illuminated, elevating its status above that of the others in the space.

Malgras|Naudet Launch Event: Thursday 7 October, 6-8pm – ALL WELCOME

To see more images of the exhibition and launch event please visit our Flickr Site

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Summer House @ Castlefield Gallery: Association: Call out to Collaborators

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

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Summer House @ Castlefield Gallery: Tether: DAY ZERO

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.

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Summer House @ Castlefield Gallery: Home and Away

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.

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How I Became a Grocer

Artist and trader Kate Rich will discuss the Feral Trade project, a business experiment founded in 2003 to navigate the dark waters of international commerce.

FREE / BOOKING REQUIRED, To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places

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Feral Trade Café

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.

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Elfin Spurs + special guest Biltone

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.

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A Horse walks into a Bar

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.

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