ART, DESIGN & MEDIA FESTIVAL 1 2 X is an intensive project that brings together students from Manchester THE TIME School of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University). They work across disciplinary boundaries to explore collaboration and work in association EXQUISITE The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HE with regional, national and international partners. CORPSE Tues 7th May, 6pm – 10pm The project culminates in the X Festival, that creates a space for students to meet and respond to unfamiliar surroundings and form new NEO Building, Charlotte Street, Manchester, M1 4ET Working together, students from Graphic relationships. It also connects art school participants to the history of Design and Illustration with Animation collaboration, that goes back to the ethos and principles of Arts & Crafts Tues 7th May, 6pm – 8pm, responded to the theme of Time. Students and to interdisciplinary experiments from Bauhaus to Blackmountain and Wed 8th – Fri 10th May, 9am – 5pm were asked to recognise short experimental beyond. Above all the project is intended to create a moment for artists, collaborative projects at the start of the unit responding initially to time within the city from A large cohort of Animation, Photography, and designers and regional partners to share common ground beyond before, working on longer more specific Filmmaking students have worked to the specialism, to gain new perspectives and consider diverse ways of projects that developing print and moving theme of ‘The Exquisite Corpse’ to embrace image work. working together that are relevant for our collective futures. chance, absurdity, experimentation and play. The work has been produced by 26 groups Staff across Manchester School of Art have created a dynamic learning The history of the city, its regeneration, and its comprised of students from each discipline. significance were explored as well as the environment, often using the city as a trigger for new work to emerge. Each group’s work aims to ‘tag team’ with the opportunity to examine the scientific Students have been given opportunities to take part in workshops and next, so that a unique collaborative looped exploration of time, the slow movement and events and have had wide-ranging experiences visiting studios, archives, installation, or ‘Exquisite Corpse’ has been theories regarding White and Black time. The generated as a bespoke fit for the NEO museums and galleries. To kick-start the project, we also created a event at The Deaf Institute uses projections to exhibition space. bring a variety of working methods together. Speakers Programme that involved leading arts professionals across art + design, including the Director of The Whitworth & Manchester Art Gallery, Alistair Hudson; Director of Islington Mill, Maurice Carlin, International Artists – Toby Paterson, Simon Liu and Michael England and others working across disciplinary fields: Gerrie Van Noord and Sarah Perks, Manchester International Festival Guest Curator and artistic Director: Irini Papadimitriou, Future Everything. 3 4 5 6 SUBSTANCE KILO LITTLE ART GALLERY Fairfield Social Club, Archway 6, The Old Bank, Hanover St, INVENTORS GIFT SHOP Temperance Street, Manchester, Manchester, M60 0AB M12 6HR Hatch, Oxford Road, Manchester, Thurs 9th May, 6pm – 9pm IMAGINARIUM M1 7AD Wed 8th May, 5pm – 9pm Arch 7, Tempeance Street, This is a collective show that is focused Manchester, M12 6HR Tues 7th May, 5.30pm – 8pm 20 groups of students are each responding to around sustainability and the relationship Wed 8th May, 10am – 5pm the title of a Joy Division or New Order song. between fashion and mass production. A Wed 8th May, 5pm – 9pm Thurs 9th May, 10am – 4pm Drawing from themes in the lyrics, the words collaboration between first year Photography Thur 9th May, 10am – 5pm and meaning of the title, the environment of and Fashion Art Direction students. Students working across Textiles in Practice post-industrial Manchester and Salford, the Little Inventors Imaginarium is a project have been working together on research into punk DIY aesthetic or in any ways they feel is developed with the Little Inventors team whose art gallery gift shops. Using Manchester Art relevant to their practices. aim is to inspire and support children around galleries & museums, archives, gallery the world to use their wonderful imaginations collections and exhibitions, past and present to think up ingenious, fantastical, funny or or the building and surrounding areas, perfectly practical inventions with no limits! parkland and historic locations as the basis for their work, they have created samples that Working with first year students from Fashion relate to their textile specialisms. This has and Interior Design, our Imaginarium project culminated in the production of conclusive turns these innovative ideas into real objects objects relevant for the Art Gallery. and inspiration for new fashion and interior applications. The work will be displayed in a pop up ‘gallery shop’ at Hatch, Oxford Road. www.littleinventors.org 7 8 9 10 WHITWORTH ART, USEFUL INTANGIBLE THREADS POLITICS, CULTURE CULTURES Manchester Craft and Design PROTEST Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley The Centre for Chinese Centre, 17 Oak Street, St, Manchester, M2 3JL Contemporary Art, 13 Thomas St, Manchester, M4 1EU Manchester M4 5JD. Grosvenor Gallery, Grosvenor Tues 7th May, 10am – 5pm Building, Cavendish St, Wed 8th May, 10am – 5.30pm Wed 8th May, 5pm – 7.30pm Manchester, M15 6BR Thurs 9th May, 10am – 5.30pm / In association with Manchester Art Gallery 6.30pm – 8pm Tues 7th May, 5pm – 8pm In association with the Centre for Chinese Wed 8th May, 12pm – 6pm A day of activities at the gallery. This project is Contemporary Art & Donghau University, Developed in collaboration with staff from the Thurs 9th May, 12pm – 6pm based around the history of the art gallery, the Shanghai, partly funded by the Chinese Whitworth art gallery, this project invited relationship with the early days of the art Ministry of Culture. students to work in collaborative and cross- On the 16th August 1819, a crowd of school and what the value and function of the The project is based on a creative and disciplinary teams, to design and make new approximately 60-80,000 people gathered on art gallery is and could be. technical exchange between the two Schools products and limited edition craft pieces for St Peter’s Field, Manchester to demonstrate, This project gave students the opportunity to and consists of research, design development, their gallery shop. asking for parliamentary reform. The crowd research the foundations of the art school and textile, fabric manipulation and illustration. This were subjected to open fre, resulting in what is Students researched, investigated and respond to the history and objects held in a is a collaborative project that fuses art, fashion now known as the Peterloo Massacre. 18 responded to this landmark venue as not only number of archives. Working from this material and textiles. It involves students and staff from people were killed and it is estimated that a physical gallery, archive and building set students have produced creative works from a Donghau University, Shanghai exploring hundreds were injured. 2019 marks the within an urban parkland, but as a place for range of disciplines for a pop-up exhibition. intangible cultures and heritage. 200-year anniversary of the massacre. people, inspired by the Whitworth’s ambition Participants can explore the social and The project culminates in a presentation at the to become a hub of the community, and utilise This exhibition takes the massacre as a historical context and respond with an education space, Centre for Chinese art and creativity as a catalyst for social starting point for thinking about the outcome of contemporary relevance. With the Contemporary Art and discussion around engagement and well-being. relationship between history, politics and key aim to consider how the Gallery is useful in creative exchange and interdisciplinary creative practice. Students worked with the modern Manchester. working. People’s History Museum Manchester, visiting the archives and looking at the materials in its collection. These visits formed the research and inspiration for students to develop a call for artists to submit works for an exhibition based around the theme of art, politics and protest. 11 12 13 14 REBEL 1/X DEVELOPING THE NATURAL TARTAN Islington Mill, 1 James St, Salford VISUAL WORLD: M3 5HW The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Tues 7th May, 5pm – 10pm NARRATIVES UTOPIAS AND Art, 13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU Leaf, 113 – 115 Portland St, DYSTOPIAS Wed 8th May, 5pm – 7pm DIY open studio event bringing together work Manchester M1 6DW from Manchester School of Art and Islington 81 King St, Manchester M2 4AH In association with Liberation Kilt Co, Bute, Mill Art Academy. Thurs 9th May, 6pm – 11pm Ethical Fashion Source and Lisaa Art School, We invite you to experience collaboration from Thurs 9th May, 5pm – 9pm Paris. different perspectives: organic and structured; When pitching an idea for an illustrated book or animation whether as an auteur or in This project explores the process of Tartan clashes and conversations; one and the The project, linked to Manchester International collaboration with a writer, it is customary to production and ethical fashion, the key aim is collective. Includes drawing, painting, plaster, Festival, explores themes of utopia and provide a complete dummy or storyboard to address the context of sustainability.