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Matinee Classics 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 WELCOME 0161 200 1500 HIGHLIGHTS Information In our Galleries our new exhibition from LA-based artist Stanya Kahn continues 0161 228 7621 throughout the summer. It’s Cool, I’m Good features a selection of Kahn’s compelling and darkly humorous video works, the premiere of a new video Book online commission exploring the concept of success, and over thirty of her drawings. www.cornerhouse.org Following its preview in June, Abandon Normal Devices festival will be shaking up the city with its innovative blend of groundbreaking art, digital media and new cinema, when it returns between Wed 29 August – Sun 2 September. The 2012 programme includes a ‘super-football’ grown from living cells, an outdoor scrap car drive-in, and a live performance spectacular incorporating digital video and INFORMATION BOOKING alt-drag. Find out more about what to expect on pages 8 and 28. Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online centre for contemporary visual www.cornerhouse.org Highlights of our film programme this quarter include two fascinating art and independent film. (no booking fee) documentaries focusing on contemporary artists: Marina Abramovi ´c: The Artist Cornerhouse also has a By phone is Present follows Abramovi ´c as she prepares for a major new retrospective of publications division – an 0161 200 1500 her work; and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry presents the inside story of the outspoken international distribution service Booking line is open from Chinese artist. Also this quarter look out for Lawless , a gritty western written by for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 catalogues. Nick Cave and featuring an all-star cast. In person OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team are available Behind the scenes, Cornerhouse has now formally merged with the Library to take bookings from Theatre Company and plans for our new city centre home at First Street are Main Building & Bar Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Mon – Thu: 9:30 - 23:00 progressing well. We’re currently working hard on developing a new name and Fri - Sat: 9:30 - 00:00 SUPPORT US new identity for the venue. During early June we held a series of interactive Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 workshops with audiences, partner organisations and staff, and you can see the As a registered charity, we depend ideas from these workshops and give us your thoughts and feedback on the Galleries on the support and generosity of Mon: Closed supporters and partners to work in progress at www.thiswillbesomewhere.com Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00 deliver our unique programme of Sun: 12:00 - 18:00 original contemporary visual art, The Library Theatre Company’s 20 12/ 13 season kicks off with Richard Bean’s independent film, and engagement Bookshop activities. To make a donation or comedy The Heretic – booking is open from Mon 25 June. Mon – Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 find out how to support our work Visit www.librarytheatre.com for more details. visit Café www.cornerhouse.org/support-us Mon – Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 FOLLOW US Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 CONTENTS Bank Holiday Opening Times become a fan of Cornerhouse Mon 27 Aug: Open from 12:00 04 l Art – Exhibitions Galleries open 12:00 - 20:00 06 l Art – Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool, I’m Good article @CornerhouseMCR 08 l Abandon Normal Devices Festival 10 l Art - Betweem performance commissions 11 l Art – Cornerhouse Projects Sign up to our free e-newsletters 12 l Art – Coming Soon at www.cornerhouse.org/sign-up 13 l Creative Industries 14 l Books 15 l Food & Drink 16 l At a glance calendar 18 l Film – New releases 22 l Film – Swandown article All information correct at time of 24 l Film – Events and seasons Cover image Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry . going to press. 31 l Information 04/05 The first UK solo show of LA-based and precarious ecology of the explores the concept of success. Curators’ Tour artist Stanya Kahn features recent landscapes . In Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ The film, which premieres at this Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool, video work, drawings and a brand Good (2012) Kahn wears a giant exhibition, features a self-styled self- I’m Good new commission. foam penis out into the world, help guru whose relentlessly Thu 13 Sep externalising stand-up comedy’s optimistic monologue thinly 18.00 – 19.00 Absurd, poignant and darkly comic, endless penis jokes with an conceals her own vulnerability. FREE, Early booking recommended ART Kahn’s videos create intimate embodiment that can ‘speak’ for portraits of compelling subjects as itself. The artist moves behind the It’s Cool, I’m Good will also include Exhibition curators Sarah Perks and they struggle for success or mere camera for the verité video over thirty of Kahn’s drawings. Henriette Huldisch will discuss survival despite setbacks, trauma essays Kathy and Sandra (both Stanya Kahn’s first European solo and destabilised senses of self. The 2009 ), which feature Kahn’s best A new catalogue of the exhibition exhibition, including new observations, mundane interactions friend and mother speaking candidly published by Cornerhouse will be commission Who Do You Think You and edgy jokes of Kahn’s characters about their lives. available for sale in the bookshop. Are , and how this relates to the AND suggest a deeper consciousness of Festival themes of success and social alienation, power and agency. Her most recent video work leaves Curated by Henriette Huldisch, personal failure. Suitable for all levels. the world of the living and features Associate Curator at Hamburger This tour will be BSL interpreted. In some works Kahn plays the objects navigating their own micro- Bahnhof, Berlin and Sarah Perks, protagonist. In It’s Cool, I’m Good worlds. In Arms are Overrated Director of Programme & (2010), the artist is a mysteriously (2012) , two paper puppets skirt the Engagement, Cornerhouse injured ‘patient’ who seduces, issue of their impending harasses and charms a slew of obsolescence, chatting in a haunted It’s Cool, I’m Good is a co- nurses into visiting, possibly for the theme park, by a pool and in bed. commission between Cornerhouse Find out more about last time, LA’s boulevards, beaches, and AND Festival. Funded by Stanya Kahn's work by reading our and deserts. Personal distress gives New commission Who Do You Think Legacy Trust UK and the Arts Image Credit Stanya Kahn, interview with her It’s Cool, I’m Good, 2010. Video still. rise to a gallows humor in which the You Are (2012) further develops Council. With thanks to Susanne on p.6. Courtesy of the artist. body reflects the urban tension themes of trauma and recovery, and Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Part of IT’S COOL STANYA KAHN Until Sun 16 Sep — Galleries 1, 2 & 3 — FREE I’M GOOD 06/07 video artist Stanya Kahn open in the back. I turn and ask the those things are there, but when “the appears at Cornerhouse camera person/nurse if I can borrow agony of defeat” is part of the Olympic in her first European a pair of sunglasses. “Do I look like the sloganeering (it has been for decades solo show, featuring invisible man? That’s not supposed now), and is wed to national recent video works to be a trick question.” Sound, identity, I’m further alienated. But including a new picture, location, camera proximity I’m a lousy spectator: I often root for LA commission alongside and the irony of the joke work to cue whoever’s at bat in a ballgame.” THIS IS NOT selected drawings. the viewer: this is intimate, but the Variously described as funny, lovely, landscape is overwhelming. This There’s a strong sense of both stand- violent or even bleak, the pieces person might die. But they’re not up comedy and improvisation in borrow strategies from more alone. This is funny, this is yucky, this this and Kahn’s earlier work. There’s traditional filmmaking (‘characters’ is sad, this is fake, this is real. This is a saying, too much laughing turns to take roving trips through strange not going to be simple.” crying… I ask Stanya if she agrees, landscapes) and yet are not meant and whether it can work in reverse – to be taken entirely literally. They The theme for the Abandon Normal can trauma and emotional/physical are almost always part metaphor, Devices Festival (29 August – 02 injury be a legitimate source of Bren O’Callaghan, allegory, poem. Kahn reveals as September 2012) during the year of humour? Cornerhouse Visual GOING TO much when questioned, describing the London Olympic and Paralympic a sequence from the title work from Games is success . Being an edgier, “As a performer, I realised early on Arts Programme the exhibition: punked-up cousin of the Cultural that both of these things can be true. Manager, talks Olympiad, this is interpreted by I think our ability to laugh at a thing “I’m at the Salton Sea (an accidental participating artists to be as much is connected to our ability to cry to Stanya Kahn about “lake” created when the Colorado about failure and the gradations, about a thing. Humour requires a her new exhibition, It’s River flooded its banks.
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