Trade City
dal 3/7/2009 al 18/7/2009
Segnalato da
Chris Butler
David Cochrane
Olaf Breuning
Andrew Bracey
Ruth Claxton
Toby Huddlestone
Haroon Mirza
Prayas Abhinav
Aaron Koblin
Andrea Booker
Rose Butler
Kypros Kyprianou
Becky Shaw
Rob Bailey
3/7/2009
Trade City
CHIPS Building, Manchester
The exhibition is the inaugural project for Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM), a new, not-for-profit consortium of visual arts organisations. Featuring a number of Manchester and UK premieres and new commissions, the show has generated innovative forms of exchange across the city's art scene, and reflects the trading and exchange that has taken place between the artists and curators partnering in CAM. An open system, the nature of co-operative working through CAM engages with notions of democracy, collectivity and self-organisation.
CAM's inaugural collaborative exhibition 'Trade City' launches in July in conjunction with Manchester International Festival 2009, and is supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash. Contemporary Art Manchester is supported by Arts Council England.
Contemporary Art Manchester is a new, not-for-profit consortium of visual arts organisations, comprising of established, high-profile partners, independent galleries, young artist-run projects and curatorial agencies; representing the breadth of the current arts infrastructure in Manchester, and generating new forms of exchange across the city's contemporary art scene.
Initiated in July 2008 CAM has been developed with the independent and artist-led visual arts sector in the city, working to further the presence and awareness of contemporary art, through joint programming, audience development and profile raising, networking and exchange activities. CAM has arisen from a collective desire for a support structure to enhance and strengthen the partners' current and future activities, and to provide an accessible platform for newly initiated projects to grow and flourish.
CAM aims to develop Manchester's reputation regionally, nationally and internationally, as a centre for innovative contemporary art and curatorial practice; to create a platform for young artist-led projects to thrive; and to provide both direct and indirect opportunities for the professional development of artists and curators. Additionally, CAM aims to build and develop audiences for contemporary art.
In collectively working on exhibition and presentation formats CAM will test the ways in which contradictions or tensions and harmonies can co-exist within such a framework, and in the case of the inaugural exhibition 'Trade City', under one roof. Unpicking, critiquing, and sharing working methodologies and creative processes, the diverse and multi-disciplinary approaches from the represented partners will create dynamic and engaging collaborations, seeking to push the boundaries of curatorial practice.
An open system, the nature of co-operative working through CAM engages with notions of democracy, collectivity and self-organisation; examining and revealing the practices of people engaged with creative work within Manchester, who may be operating through less formal structures, or on the periphery of the city. The collective might of CAM will redress this balance, creating a new central structure or 'core' for the production and dissemination of contemporary art.
Current partners in CAM include: 100th Monkey, Bureau, BMCA, Castlefield Gallery, Contents May Vary, Exocet, FutureEverything, Gymnasium, Harfleet & Jack, Interval, Islington Mill Art Academy, Rogue Project Space, The Salford Restoration Office, and twenty+3 projects.
Trade City Launch: 3 - 7, Sun 5th July
ANTIFREEZE Event: 12 – 7, Sat 4th July
Trade City Open: 3 - 7, Weds to Sun.
CHIPS Building
Old Mill Street - Manchester