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Exhibitions & Events - Archive
Performance and CD Launch of Lemke/Gwilliam’s fourmill plus quarterinch
Thursday, November 26, 2009 (18:00 - 20:00)
fourmill plus quarterinch is the duo of sound artists and improvising musicians Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam. In this collaboration the two artists use different formats of audiotape; pre-recorded, prepared and unprepared. From individual banks of sound recordings on tape comes a subtle and often dense music that is both composed and improvised in concrete time.
FREE EVENT, 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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Art, Literature and Economics: Between Dystopia and Utopia. Two Talks: Dr. Kaye Mitchell and Jasper Joffe
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (18:00 - 20:00)
To coincide with the Apocatopia exhibition.
Dr. Kaye Mitchell will focus on the use of utopian and dystopian literature as a vehicle for socialist, feminist, queer and other radical politics, looking particularly at material produced in the 20th and 21st century. Jasper Joffe will focus on the annual Free Art Fair and its ideology in the shadow of the current economic climate. FREE EVENT, 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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Apocatopia
Friday, October 09, 2009 to Sunday, November 22, 2009 (13:00 - 18:00)
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present Apocatopia, a group exhibition including the work of Ruth Ewan, Evi Grigoropoulou, Siobhán Hapaska and Pil & Galia Kollectiv. Through film, painting and sculpture the work explores the relationship between production, presentation and consumption of contemporary culture examining the role of money, ritual and desire in a changing cultural, political and economic topography.
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The Manchester Contemporary
Thursday, September 24, 2009 to Sunday, September 27, 2009
Castlefield Gallery will be representing Andrew Bracey, Tracey Eastham and Leo Fitzmaurice at this year’s The Manchester Contemporary
The Manchester Cotemporary art fair takes place at Urbis. Please see http://www.themanchestercontemporary.co.uk for further information and opening times.
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Talk by Dr. Amanda Ravetz
Thursday, September 17, 2009 (18:00 - 20:00)
Amanda will talk about convergences and differences between anthropology and art, referencing work from Practical Truths and drawing on her experience of running an international workshop for artists and anthropologists.
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Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change conference
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (16:00 - 22:00)
Artist Hilary Jack, recently exhibited in The Social Lives of Objects at Castlefield Gallery, and will be exhibiting her work and facilitating an informal event in the foyer of The Royal Northern College of Music, as part of Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change conference. This is the 5th annual conference of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change.This is a closed event for conference delegate.
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