Talk
Touching the Archive by Sarah-Joy Ford – Reading and Conversation
17 Mar 2022
Castlefield Gallery
Manchester, United Kingdom
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Gregory Herbert, Making-with, commissioned by SheffieldDocFest (2021)
Exhibition
Archives at Play
6 Mar 2022 – 24 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 2 Hewitt Street
- Knott Mill
- Manchester
- M15 4GB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- No.2 Metroshuttle Bus
- Metrolink Tram: Deansgate/Castlefield
- Deansgate Train Station
Event map
Archives at Play is an exhibition exploring our relationship with the past, and how this informs the way we make the future.
About
Archives at Play: Exhibition Preview, Thursday 3 March / 6pm-8pm. Book a free ticket HERE
Archives at Play: Slow Saturday Preview, Saturday 5 March, 12noon-5:30pm. Book a free ticket HERE
Archives at Play is an exhibition exploring our relationship with the past, and how this informs the way we make the future. At a time when it is more important than ever to challenge inherited ideas about ecology, equality, and identity, this exhibition uses archival structures – the ways we hold and engage with the past – as a tool for questioning the worlds we find ourselves within.
The artists Gregory Herbert, Kelly Jayne Jones, Dr. Yan Wang Preston, and Chester Tenneson have been invited to take the concept of the archive as a starting point to develop a series of new works for Archives at Play.
Throughout the exhibition the gallery will host a series of events that will respond to both the archive, as well the physical traces left behind in the fabric of the venue from the artists and events that have gone before. Through performance, sound, and readings the artists will bring their own distinct perspectives to Castlefield Gallery; its history and its yet unwritten future. The wider communities and visitors of Castlefield Gallery will also have opportunities to explore behind the scenes, dig into the gallery archive, and connect with the gallery team and artists in new ways.
Archives at Play is part of a wider Castlefield Gallery research project led by Thomas Dukes, a curator and PhD Candidate working with Castlefield Gallery and Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dukes’ research into the 37 year-long Castlefield Gallery archive looks for ways to approach the gallery archive as more than a site to hold and preserve information as ‘fact’, but instead as a living and complex entity. One that doesn’t exist in a single place, and that can be engaged with in the present to prompt dialogue and generate influence from many voices, in order to inform thinking about the future.
