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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
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 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.
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.
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.
PureScreen #23PureScreen DVD *03
04/12/2008 / 18:30 - 20:30Artists: Tal Amiran, Alan Bogana & Dave Green, Steven Eastwood, Esther Johnson, Nick Jordan, Rebecca Lennon, Elena Näsänen, Philip Newcombe, Seppo Renvall, Mika J. Ripatti, Erica Scourti, Juha van Ingen.
Venue: Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester. M15 4GB
Admission: FREE ADMISSION. BOOKING REQUIRED. To book please call Castlefield Gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of PureScreen DVD *03, a programme of recent artist film and video work. Curated by Sophia Crilly, the DVD features the highlights and a cross-section of the diversity of works from the 2007/08 season of screening programmes. The DVD will be available from December 2008.
Laura White: If I Had a Monkey I Wouldn’t Need a TV
28/11/2008Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present If I Had a Monkey I Wouldn’t Need a TV, a solo show of new work by London based artist Laura White. Working with video and found objects her work addresses the convergence of the manmade and the natural world using both static and moving images sampled from the Internet, billboard posters and TV documentaries. They are consequently shattered or distorted by direct confrontation with objects and other matter in the space, encouraging the viewer to reflect and explore the artifice within the imagery.
Through distorting and concealing imagery, her sculptures are suggestive of the way in which humankind manipulates the environment for its own needs, whether that is through the containment of the natural world to provide us with entertainment, or the mis-representation of both humans and animals for economic gain.
Deej Fabyc: Free Spirit House Walking Tours
31/10/2008 / 18:00 - 20:00Dates: Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November 2008
Times: Friday 31 October, 8-10pm, Saturday 1 November 2008, 7-9pm. (please note time changes)
Venues: Manchester Piccadilly / Castlefield Gallery
FREE ADMISSION – BOOKING REQUIRED. To book please call 0161 832 8034 or email
events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
This night walking tour will investigate the culture of night workers.
At 8pm at Manchester Piccadilly Station on the overladen date Friday 31 October, Fabyc invites you to meet “Deidre Divine” an older streetwalker at Manchester Piccadilly Station and take a walk to the east of the Station mapping the cameras and the punters as we walk, the journey will end back at the Station at 10pm.
At 7pm Saturday 1 November at Castlefield Gallery, Night Sorting Postal officer “Alison Brown” will clock off to take you on a walk South looking at dangerous corners, dark woods and dumping grounds, teaching hypervigilance in a circuit which will end back at Castlefield Gallery at 9pm.