PureScreen #14 ‘Making Love to My Ego’

THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT Bureau Gallery, Salford. See ‘more’ for directions to Bureau.

The new season of PureScreen artists’ film and video events begins with PureScreen #14: Making Love To My Ego. Curated by Sophia Crilly in collaboration with Another Product to coincide with ‘Making Love to My Ego.’

FREE ADMISSION – LIMITED CAPACITY – BOOKING REQUIRED. Refreshments provided.

Please email purescreen@castlefieldgallery.co.uk to book a place.

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RAIDERS OF THE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY

As part of ‘Incursions in the Knowledge Capital’ there will be two free guided bus tours of Manchester’s regeneration landmarks – past, present and future.

Tour dates: Monday 19th June and Saturday 1st July.

Time: 6pm (19th June) and 10am (1st July). Both tours last approx. 2 hours.

Meeting point: In front of Queen Victoria statue in Piccadilly Gardens. Tour ends at Castlefield Chapel.

ADVANCED BOOKING ONLY: To book call Castlefield Gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk

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Purescreen Archive

Purescreen is Castlefield Gallery’s regular screening event for artist’s film and video. To coincide with Wintergarden, the upper Gallery will house a temporary archive of Purescreen showreels.

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UHC Collective ‘Incursions in the Knowledge Capital’ – Castlefield Gallery Offsite

Castlefield Gallery are proud to present UHC’s latest projects: UHC Collective Works and ‘Incursions in the Knowledge Capital’ to coincide with Architecture Week 2006.

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Daria Martin: Artist’s talk

FREE ADMISSION – 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.

Internationally renowned artist Daria Martin will be giving a talk about her practice and the exhibition’s title film ‘Wintergarden.’

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Making Love to My Ego

‘Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average: His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.’ Freud

Castlefield Gallery is proud to present Making Love to My Ego, an exhibition that adventures into the realm of self-image and alter ego. With a nod to popular psychoanalysis and a keen desire to explore the manifestations of the ego within contemporary art practice, Manchester based artist-curators Another Product have brought together a group of artists to generate an inquiry into the subject.

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SURREALIST IN CONTEMPORARY ART: Bob Matthews, Samantha Lackey and JJ Charlesworth in Discussion

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED

World Gone Mad curator Bob Matthews discusses the themes of the exhibition with Samantha Lackey of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies, chaired by Herbert Read Gallery curator JJ Charlesworth.

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PureScreen #13: LIGHTSTRUCK

A programme of recent artist film and video curated by Antimatter, Canada, presented in association with Castlefield Gallery’s PureScreen programme. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT CORNERHOUSE. For tickets please call Cornerhouse box office on 0161 200 1500.

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Daria Martin ‘Wintergarden’

Castlefield Gallery is proud to have been chosen as a venue for the new Film and Video Umbrella commission Wintergarden by Daria Martin. Loosely structured around the compelling myth of Persephone’s abduction by Hades into the Underworld, Martin has created a stylised, and visually stunning performance in this, her most ambitious film to date.

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World Gone Mad: Surrealist in Recent British Art

Castlefield Gallery is proud to present an exciting touring exhibition that charts a new surrealism in recent British painting and sculpture. World Gone Mad is an exhibition about the visual legacies of Surrealism to be found in the work of contemporary British artists, a generation making renewed links between the novel approaches of the old avant-garde and the resources it offers for their own work and how to picture the world today.

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