Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM) presents Trade City
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TRADE CITY
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Info
Trade City Launch: 3 - 7, Sun 5th July
ANTIFREEZE Event: 12 – 7, Sat 4th July
Trade City Open: 3 - 7, Weds to Sun.
Until Sun 19th July 2009
Contact
info@contemporaryartmanchester.org
Address
http://www.contemporaryartmanchester.org
CHIPS Building,
Old Mill Street,
New Islington,
Manchester. M4 6EB
UK
The exhibition 'Trade City' is the inaugural project for Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM). Featuring a number of Manchester and UK premieres and new commissions, 'Trade City' has generated innovative forms of exchange across the city's art scene.
Contemporary Art Manchester is a new, not-for-profit consortium of visual arts organisations, representing the breadth of the current contemporary arts infrastructure in Manchester, UK. In bringing together the art production of thirteen diverse organisations, 'Trade City' reflects the trading and exchange that has taken place between the artists and curators partnering in CAM.
Each participating organisation has selected artists to work with that are representative of their curatorial approach or position, alongside exploring multi-faceted interpretations of 'trade'. As a result, the presented works of twenty-six emergent to established international artists trade off each other in one space, creating aesthetic and spatial interplays, whilst addressing ideas of cultural, economic, geographical and political exchange.
In collectively working on an exhibition and presentation format CAM explores the ways in which contradictions or tensions and harmonies can co-exist within such frameworks, and in the case of 'Trade City', under one roof.
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. Through collaboration CAM aims to redress this balance, creating a new central structure or 'core' for the production and dissemination of contemporary art.
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ORGANISATIONS / ARTISTS
100th Monkey: Chris Butler, Suzanne Smith
BMCA: David Cochrane
Bureau: Olaf Breuning
Castlefield Gallery: Andrew Bracey, Andrew Lim
Contents May Vary: ANTIFREEZE
Exocet: Ruth Claxton, Toby Huddlestone, jack of none, Haroon Mirza
FutureEverything: Prayas Abhinav, Aaron Koblin
Gymnasium: Chipboard Project
Harfleet & Jack: Andrea Booker, Paul Cordwell, Kevin Hunt
Interval: Rose Butler and Kypros Kyprianou, Phil Constable, Daniel Staincliffe
Islington Mill Art Academy: Becky Shaw
Rogue Project Space: Rob Bailey, Cherry Tenneson
twenty+3 projects: Yam Lau, Cheryl Sourkes
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'Trade City' is organised by Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM), in association with Manchester International Festival 2009 (MIF 09). Supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash. Contemporary Art Manchester is supported by Arts Council England.
