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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 Our first major new exhibition of 2 013 is a solo exhibition from internationally www.cornerhouse.org renowned artist Rosa Barba. Subject to Constant Change is a unique collaboration between Cornerhouse and Turner Contemporary and each venue will feature Barba's new film commission Subconscious Society in a different cinematic and sculptural format. January also sees the return of the young curatorial team behind our popular 2 012 exhibition Lost is Found , who present INFORMATION BOOKING fresh new group show Four in Gallery 1. The exhibition features four new commissions by artists selected from an open call for submissions. Get an Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online insight into the process of putting the show together from one of the curators centre for contemporary visual www.cornerhouse.org involved on p.08. art and independent film. (no booking fee) Cornerhouse also has a By phone The New Year also brings a fabulous selection of must-see films to our screens. publications division – an 0161 200 1500 Highlights include the much anticipated spectacle Django Unchained , Quentin international distribution service Booking line is open from Tarantino’s blood soaked tribute to the Western genre; heartfelt British comedy for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 catalogues. Quartet , returning after the success of our sold out preview plus Q&A with stars In person Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay back in December; and McCullin , a powerful OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team are available documentary following the career of revered photojournalist Don McCullin. to take bookings from Main Building & Bar Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Mon – Thu: 9:30 - 23:00 In March we welcome back ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival with Fri - Sat: 9:30 - 00:00 SUPPORT US more Spanish language films, events and special guests, as well as an exhibition Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 from Mexican artist Yoshua Okón. Highlights of the festival are on p.24, and you As a registered charity, we depend Galleries on the support and generosity of can read an interview with Adam Isenberg, the director of moving documentary Mon: Closed supporters and partners to Una Vida sin palabras , on p.26. 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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 Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 Look out for news CONTENTS about Radical Women Bank Holiday opening times become a fan of Cornerhouse Manchester events, Tue 1 Jan: Open from 12:00 taking place at 04 l Art – Exhibitions venues across the Fri 29 Mar: Open from 12:00 08 l Art Article – Curating Four city in March and April Mon 1 Apr: Open from 12:00 @CornerhouseMCR 10 l Art – Events (Gallery 1 open) 11 l Art – Cornerhouse Projects 12 l Art – Coming soon Sign up to our free e-newsletters 13 l Creative Industries at www.cornerhouse.org/sign-up 14 l Books 15 l Food & Drink 16 l At a glance calendar 18 l Film – New releases 22 l Film – Events and festivals Cover image Rosa Barba, Subconscious 26 l Film – Article All information correct at time of Society , 2 013 (production shot) 29 l Courses photo: Jenny Ekholm. going to press. 30 l Information 04/05 This most comprehensive solo Using the grandiose interior of exhibition by Rosa Barba to date Manchester’s hitherto abandoned features a major new installation, Albert Hall (a former Methodist Subconscious Society (2 013), mission) as main stage, the artist commissioned especially for the show, assembled a group of local alongside a selection of related film residents, some with memories of ART sculptures. In a unique collaboration the building, and filmed them inside. between Turner Contemporary and Barba’s protagonists reflect on Cornerhouse, each institution will different objects from the past: these exhibit a different cinematic and are relics of the age of mechanical sculptural format of Barba’s work in reproduction and analogue Margate and Manchester during technology, now receded into near similar time periods. obsolescence and becoming increasingly mysterious in the digital Barba’s practice explores the material present. Exterior scenes filmed in properties of film, such as the celluloid Kent show a post-industrial Thames filmstrip, projection and sound Estuary with desolate structures apparatus, while at the same time rendered increasingly strange, such probing the structure of cinematic as abandoned boats, a collapsing narrative and its relationship to pier, dilapidated sea forts rising out memory itself. Subconscious Society of the water on stilts, and Margate’s takes the end of the industrial age now defunct Dreamland amusement as its subject, shot on location in park, which opened its doors as a Kent and Manchester, and in part new mass leisure culture emerged in drawing on the latter’s rich history the early 1900s. as a manufacturing capital in the 19th century. Subconscious Society is shown on a large suspended screen in Gallery 3, projected onto from both sides using 35mm and 16mm film. At Turner Contemporary, the work appears in a fragmented form and is dispersed across various smaller projector sculptures scattered through the space. Also on view at Cornerhouse in Gallery 2 is Barba’s five-projector installation Coro Spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day , which premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Subject to Constant Change is curated by Henriette Huldisch for Cornerhouse and Lauren A. Wright for Turner Contemporary. Organised in collaboration with ROSA BARBA: Turner Contemporary. Exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, Institut für Image Rosa Barba, Subconscious Society , 2 013 (production shot) Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), ETC Ltd, SUBJECT TO photo: Jenny Ekholm. and LSI Projects Ltd. Find out more about the exhibition and look out for digital content at cornerhouse.org/ CONSTANT CHANGE Sat 26 Jan - Sun 17 Mar — Galleries 2 & 3 — FREE rosa-barba 06/07 Inserted within the US tradition of United Fruit Company, UFCO (now civil war re-enactments, Octopus known as Chiquita Banana), a US (2 011 ) by artist Yoshua Okón offers Company based in Guatemala and an alternative presentation of the directly linked to the CIA-led coup Guatemalan Civil War. Where usually and to the following civil war. Also such activities take place in historically presented is US (2005), a single significant locations by enthusiasts channel animation originally created with no direct experience of the for the Monuments For The USA conflict in question, in this work the show. site is of symbolic significance. The battlefield is relocated to US soil at a Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico Home Depot parking lot in Los City in 1970 where he currently lives. Angeles, and the conflict is performed His work is like a series of near- by people who fought during the sociological experiments executed Guatemalan Civil War. The former for the camera blending staged soldiers are now members of the situations, documentation and Los Angeles Mayan community, and improvisation, questioning habitual they gather to look for work as day perceptions of reality and truth, labourers in the same parking lot selfhood and morality. In 2002 he where this performance takes place. received an MFA from UCLA with a Fulbright scholarship. In 1994, Okón E The title makes reference to the founded La Panadería, an artist-run E R Image Yoshua Okón, Octopus , 20 11 . nickname used in Guatemala for The space in Mexico City. F — 1 y r e l l a G — b e F 4 2 n u S - n a J 6 2 t a S Gallery 1show Four presents an exciting selection of brand new commissions from four UK-based artists. Liz West’s colour drenched Nicola Ellis’ touchable, human-sized installation features a never-ending sculpture is made from irregular landscape of bright objects encased shaped paddlestones and has an inside a reclaimed wardrobe. Beams unearthly, cocoon like appeal. of light will invite you to look inside as they seep out of the wardrobe’s Four has been curated and developed open doors into dark surroundings. by Cornerhouse’s Young Curators, Elizabeth Gibson, Alex Leigh and Tristram Aver has reinterpreted Neetu Roy, the team responsible for Richard Ansdell’s 19th century oil the successful 2 012 show Lost is YOSHUA OKÓN: FOUR painting The Chase using internet Found . For this exhibition the found imagery and cultural and curators devised an open call to give Sat 9 Mar - Mon 1 Apr — Gallery 1 — FREE commercial iconography to create four artists the opportunity to each TRISTRAM AVER an altered view of contemporary realise a specially commissioned NICOLA ELLIS Britishness and urban living. piece. Kate Sully has created a giant petri Exhibition supported by D’Oyly KATE SULLY dish, whose ‘cultures’ – made from Carte Charitable Trust. printed fabric, wiring and other LIZ WEST found objects – suggest organic Image Tristram Aver, Busy Bodies and OCTOPUS This exhibition is part of ¡Viva! formations like coral and lichen. Busy Bees, (after Lucy Ann Leavers) . Festival, see p.26 for details.