A Raft of Measures
Mud Office Does Lunch
Mud In Your Eye...
To the Left of the Rising Sun
The Return of the Seven Samurai
Virtual Grizedale
Near Island
Negotiating Us
To the Left of the Rising Sun
Sat 30 June - Sun 12 Aug, 2007
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Group Exhibition
Curated by Cecilia Andersson for Manchester International Festival
What kind of imagery does the North evoke? And what does it mean when
the notion of land has an association with a culture, and not necessarily
with a country? 'To the Left of the Rising Sun' poses questions about
current representations of a terrain that has historically evoked ideas
about myth and nostalgia, nationalism, romanticism and an ongoing transformation
of cultural identity
On Sat 28th July 2007, artists Dan Robinson and Bryan Davies will be
closing Castlefield Gallery and taking the gallery staff on an overnight
visit to the remote Low Parkamoor farm
The artists and Gallery staff will engage in physical labour in return
for an experience of the rural idyll, plus food from Grizedale Arts' new
farm, and accomodation from the National Trust. This exchange is part
of the 'Thinking Space for the North' art project to develop Low Parkamoor
Cumbrian farm. For their contributution to this show at Castelfield, the
artists have proposed a series of exhanges. Other exchanges include a
barn door for the gallery director's desk and a public call to swap furnishings
for the farmhouse parlour
related links to external sites:
Manchester
International Festival
Thinking
Space for the North
Castlefield Gallery