Panoply 1.An impressive and wide display 2.A complete suite of Armour Performing today at Islington mill as part of Sounds from The Other City, Panoply is an art event based in costume, fashion design and theatre. The inaugural Panoply took place in October 2010 with the additional aim to promote explorative works of performance art.… [Read more…]
March 13, 2012
Manchester documentary photographer David Dunnico, brings together his photographs of CCTV surveillance and his recent collection on George Orwell’s novel ’1984′, in a new exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery entitled ‘1984 Looks Like This’ (17 March to 1 July 2012). Both these topics are something #MLab has looked at in the past plus… [Read more…]
September 3, 2011
CUBE is delighted to be announcing from the 1st of September CUBE will be ‘To Let’. This project is a new commission and plays a major part of our forthcoming exhibition. Junebum Park is an artist based in Korea. Through a clever shift of perspective, Junebum transforms the most ordinary of environments into extraordinary scenes in which the artist’s hands interfere with… [Read more…]
September 1, 2011
To watch Cascade’s promotional trailer, currently available on Fabrica’s website, you could be forgiven for thinking that Stéphane Cauchy’s kinetic installation harboured some kind of monster. As the gallery’s otherwise silent and still atmosphere is torn apart by a roaring sound, it’s necessary to remind yourself it is just falling water, such is the ferocity of… [Read more…]
August 6, 2011
May 10, 2011
Organised by 13 photography students from MMU, EPHEMEROS is a showcase of up and coming artists who present a personal and emotive exhibition looking a photography removed from its familiarity with publicity and other commercial use. Housed within the remains of a derelict textile cutting room in Stevenson Square at KRAAK Gallery, the exhibit’s are positioned… [Read more…]
May 9, 2011
After several complementary plastic cups of wine on Thursday I got round to taking a few preview shots of Rupert Griffiths exhibition BORDERLANDS at Cube Gallery. The preview itself was only part of the exhibition space that will be fully open to the public the following day (6th May -4th June). The BORDERLANDS exhibition presents an… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
May 7, 2011
Having been into the FutureEverything studio this week helping out with a few designs and more menial tasks for the Handmade Exhibition, I want to give a shout out to some of the highlights of the 2011 festival starting this Wednesday (11th – 14th May) around the City. FutureEverything is the UK’s leading festival of digital culture… [Read more…]
April 27, 2011
Following on from our post “Day.25 Think Quarterly” about Google’s new magazine “Think Quarterly”, as suggested, we took time to reflect on one of the articles within. Inside there’s a great interview with Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, entitled “Lunch with Hal” where he discusses the mass of data technology and the internet has allowed… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
We took a look in @ the Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures Exhibition at The Trafford Centre this week. Here’s some of what we found… MLAB Related Links Tutankhamun Manchester Tut at Twilight – www.tutankhmunmanchester.com Tutankhamun Amazing Images from Exhibit – www.mirror.co.uk Tutankhamun Treasure’s – www.grisel.net/tut Related Articles Going up: Trafford Centre plans extra floors… [Read more…]
September 8, 2010
DAY.11 Rafael Lozano-Henner Projects I took time out today to go view the new Recorders Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. The electronic artworks from Mexican- Canadian born artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, depend upon interact with the viewer or gathers information about them. There are nine pieces by the artist displayed over two rooms but the highlight… [Read more…]
August 22, 2010
Saturday is a day of rest …. Every had that feeling you just need a day to rest? well, that was today. Headed into Manchester to check out “A World Observed 1940 – 2010: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm” @ Manchester Art Gallery again. I hadn’t heard of Dorothy Bohm before this exhibition opened in April,… [Read more…]
May 6, 2012
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