Tuesday Talks
11.00am – 12.30pm, free , no booking necessary
The Tuesday Talks series invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is programmed by Professor Pavel Büchler and Bryony Bond, and is supported by the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Dates for the Tuesday Talk winter programme:
On Tuesdays 17 January to 6 March
Details so far...
Tuesday 31 January
Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey won the Turner Prize in 2008, his wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary practice combines sculpture, film, sound and performance. His work has been widely exhibited, with a major solo exhibition, See We Assemble, held at the Serpentine Gallery last year. Leckey is currently working towards Work & Leisure, a solo show at Manchester Art Gallery opening on 17 February. Work & Leisure will present new work especially commissioned for Manchester, as well as a series of live performances that will take place throughout the run of the 4-week show.
7 February
Cornelia Parker
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, Cornelia Parker is perhaps best-known for a number of large-scale installations including Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, and The Maybe, a collaboration with actress Tilda Swinton, who appeared sleeping inside a vitrine at the Serpentine Gallery. Fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions, Parker's work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, transforming the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.
14 February
Georgina Starr
Georgina Starr works with a very broad range of materials and techniques, including video, performance, sound, sculpture and even musicals. She uses incidents from her past, present and future, mixing fact, fantasy and fiction. One series of works concerned a parallel universe full of doppelgängers, including Starr herself. Her works often originate from a chance event or a half-recalled memory. A recent work, I am a Record draws on everything Starr has ever recorded (on audio) since she began hearing voices aged 5 years old. The range of this archive covers: the rumbling of a broken radiator which she thought was speaking to her, re-enactments of secretly recorded stranger's conversation, field recordings, singing voices, paranormal telephony, family dinner conversations, spirit messages and interviews with psychics and movie stars.