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A r t F w i w l w m . c B o o r n o e k r s h o F u o s e o . d o r d g r i n k Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC Cornerhouse 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH Box Office 0161 200 1500 HIGHLIGHTS Information 0161 228 7621 WELCOME Book online www.cornerhouse.org The autumn gets off to an exciting start as we open a major new exhibition by Rashid Rana. Rana is well known internationally for his visually stunning artworks which challenge cultural stereotypes, but this will be his first public UK solo show. His exhibition Everything Is Happening At Once is showing as part of Asia Triennial Manchester 20 11 , taking place at venues across the city from Sat 1 October – Sun 27 November. We’ve also curated the very first ATM film programme – bringing you a selection of films from across South and East Asia, including six UK premieres and a retrospective of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker INFORMATION BOOKING Brillante Mendoza. Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online centre for contemporary visual www.cornerhouse.org Other highlights from our film programme this quarter include We Need to Talk art and independent film. (no booking fee) About Kevin , a gripping adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s award-winning novel; Tyrannosau r, the powerful directorial debut from actor Paddy Considine (see Cornerhouse also has a By phone p.22 for an article about the film); and The Ides of March , which sees George publications division – an 0161 200 1500 Clooney step back behind the camera to explore the murky world of US politics. international distribution service Booking line is open from for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 catalogues. In December we’ve got plenty to keep you entertained over the festive season; In person Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without It’s a Wonderful Life , and we’re also OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team are available screening one of our favourite eighties films, Labyrinth . So take a break from to take bookings from your Christmas shopping and bring along the whole family to enjoy one of our Main Building & Bar Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 seasonal selections (see p.29 for details). Mon – Thu: 9:30 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 9:30 - 00:00 SUPPORT US Finally, why not head over to Liverpool for your fix of the newest and coolest in Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 art and film, as this year’s Abandon Normal Devices Festival takes over the city As a registered charity, we depend between Thu 29 September and Sun 2 October? (www.andfestival.org.uk) Galleries on the support and generosity of Mon: Closed supporters and partners to deliver Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00 our unique programme of original Sun: 12:00 - 18:00 contemporary visual art, independent film, and engagement Bookshop activities. To make a donation or Mon – Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 find out how to support our work visit Café www.cornerhouse.org/support-us Mon – Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 FOLLOW US CONTENTS Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 04 l Art – Exhibitions Festive Opening Times become a fan of Cornerhouse 06 l Asia Triennial Manchester 11/ Exhibitions Coming Soon Sat 24 – Mon 26 Dec: Closed 07 l Art Article – Rashid Rana Tue 27 Dec: Open from 12:00 08 l Art - Events Sat 31 Dec – Sun 1 Jan: Closed @CornerhouseMCR 10 l Cornerhouse Projects Mon 2 Jan: Open from 12:00 11 l Books 12 l Creative Industries Mon 19 Dec – Sat 14 Jan Sign up to our free e-newsletter 14 l Courses Galleries closed for exhibition at www.cornerhouse.org/sign-up 15 l Food & Drink / Regular Events / Venue Hire changeover 16 l At a Glance 18 l Film – New releases 22 l Film article - Tyrannosaur Cover image Rashid Rana, Desperately All information correct at time of 23 l Film Events and Seasons Seeking Paradise 2 , 2 010-2 011 . going to press. 31 l Information Photo: Ken Adlard. 04/05 Everything is Happening at Once is In Gallery 1, Dis-Location (2007) Gallery 3 includes new work the first major UK public solo explores domesticity, displacement Language Series 2 and 3 (2009 -11 ) exhibition from internationally and everyday objects. A series of and the stunning large-scale acclaimed artist Rashid Rana. heavily pixellated photo sculptures sculpture Desperately Seeking such as Plastic Flowers In A Paradise 2 (2 010-11 ). On first glance, The works in this exhibition, spanning Traditional Vase (2007) manipulate we see the panoramic skyline of a ART 1992 to the present, blur the divide our ideas of representation and mirage-like, imaginary city. Close up, between two and three-dimensional reality. Look more closely at what the big picture disappears and forms. Photo sculptures, large scale may at first suggest a seascape in thousands of smaller images are photo mosaics, installations and new photo mosaic The World Is Not revealed, depicting houses in Lahore, video work twist our perceptions of Enough (2006-7), and you will see the the city where artist was born and is size and structure and challenge our micro-imagery of waste and urban currently based. view of the world we live in. decay that are woven together to create it. A special publication Rashid Rana: Everything Is Happening At Once will What Lies Between Flesh And Blood be published by Cornerhouse in 1, 2 and 3 (2009), in Gallery 2, dissects association with Lisson Gallery in both the body and physical December. relationships. In Red Carpet I (2007), the carnage of slaughtered animals in Curated by Alnoor Mitha, Director a Lahore abattoir hides in plain sight Shisha & ATM 11 , and Sarah Perks, behind the intricate beauty and Cornerhouse Programme & tradition of a Persian carpet. On the Engagement Director. surface, this particular series are serene abstracts, reminiscent of A special version of the exhibition will Rothko. Come closer, and their tour to New Art Exchange, unsettling detail is revealed, each Nottingham Sat 14 January – Fri 30 composed of an intricate mosaic of March 2 012. 3 thousands of tiny images of wounds & Rashid Rana is presented as part and skin, taken from fashion 2 of ATM11, a Shisha inititated , project. For more information visit magazines, pornographic websites 1 www.asiatriennialmanchester.com and medical journals. s e i r e l l a G — c e D 8 1 n u S — t c O 1 t a RS ASHID EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING AT ONCE Presented in partnership with Lisson Gallery, London RANA Supported by: Mint Hotel, Manchester Image Credit Rashid Rana, What Lies and Tiger Beer. Between Flesh and Blood 1, 2009 (detail). 06/07 Asia Triennial Manchester 11 Sat 1October – Sun 27 November Asia Triennial Manchester 11 (AT M11), a Shisha initiated project, opens Sat 1October – Sun 27 November, with an exciting showcase of contemporary art from Asia at venues across the city. The festival explores the theme of Time and Generation. It features a series of exhibitions, commissions and interventions by international and UK artists and includes new site-specific work and UK premieres. At Cornerhouse, we are presenting the first major public exhibition of Rashid Rana in the UK (see p.4), and curating the Asia Triennial Film Programme which includes a range of new films from across the region, with a major focus on Filipino director Brillante Mendoza (see p.23 for more details). Also look out for Daksha Patel’s Cornerhouse Project showing in our café bar and at Piccadilly train station until Wed 12 October, as part of the AT M11 Fringe. ashid Rana’s art challenges states. When questioned as to the traditional percep tions of the relevance of his home base of Lahore, For more information visit www.asiatriennialmanchester.com E photographic image via a which features as a seemingly kaleidoscopic eye- view; endless source of palette-images combining multiplicity, (similar in many regards to a primary P layered intent, abstraction spectrum of paint, blended and Rand three-dimensional form. cropped to create nuance and tint), he Culminating in the reveal in offers further clarification. “I don’t O Gallery 3 of the dazzling mirror-box deny its presence but until now I have and city panorama of Desperately not made a work that is strictly based Seeking Paradise 2 , the journey is one on ‘Lahore’ alone. It intermingles with C that requires the viewer to look once, many other references.” COMING blink, clear the mind and then look S again. Rashid’s work races ahead at “As I’m based here most of my visual SOON full speed but also is becalmed in experiences and references are from static contemplation. The artist my surroundings, both immediate O himself explains this seemingly physical surroundings and images contradictory sense of push and pull. that are part of a global collective experience. Because of means of R “Today, every image, idea and truth communication today that ‘virtual’ Creative Stars Exhibition Samantha Donnelly (ancient or media generated) experience is something I also regard Sat 14 Jan – Sun 14 Feb 2012 Sat 28 Jan – Sun 25 Mar 2012 encompasses its opposite within as my surroundings.” Gallery 1 Galleries 2 & 3 C itself,” says Rana from his studio in Pakistan. “We live in a state of duality. Cutting across conventional notions Over the last year we have been The perpetual paradox, which reigns of scale, Rana does not pursue form or Samantha Donnelly will present two A developing the skills of 19 talented new installations in Galleries 2 & 3 the outside world, is a feature for the technique alone at the expense of young Creative Stars aged between that explore how our ideas of self are internal self also.