Schools of Change

Taking place: Thursday 30th November 2017

Jennet Thomas

Still from School of change, 2012

Bea Haut

Pending

Laura Hindmarsh

Self-Registration

Schools of Change is a night of performative film and video hosted by Paradise Works as an opener to the Artist Film Weekender at HOME. 

Each of the artists showing this evening playfully utilise and embody performance within their practice and embrace the potential for performance to instigate change.
Programmed by Chris Paul Daniels and Jenny Baines.

Featuring:

Jennet Thomas: School of Change (2012), is a Sci-Fi musical film. We witness one day in the life of a school where students’ learning is bio-technically monitored through an ingested device, and high-scoring pupils perform their learning through a rhythmic action practice that produces little white spheres – called Units of Knowing – the currency through which this reality functions.

Laura Hindmarsh: Self-Registration (2015), an act of self-alignment using hand contact printing, and will also perform a new work deriving from Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale (1971).

Bea Haut: Defenestration (2015) combines film and domestic structures, reaching out beyond the frame, testing out access and escape, aperture and portal. Pending (2016) is a 16mm film performance using a 100ft length of film formed into a ‘living loop’ by the audience, before being taken up and played out by the projector. This interlacing creates a sympathetic film, which conjoins the audience, the artist and the subject in an act of duration and suspension.

Tariq Emam: T.B.M. Reloaded (2017), is a live, site-responsive performance whereby tape noise will not be the only noise, and will feature R.L. Wilson and Guillaume Dujat: exploring recuperation of forlorn demons. The kind you find in charity shops, or wasting precious space in precious homes. The kind of space that could be used for a little bit of paradise. But what if it already was?

Thursday 30th November 2017
Entry price: £4.00 full / £3.00 conc, buy here:
https://homemcr.org/event/schools-of-change/
18:00 for a 18:30 start

Complimentary supper provided
Dress Warmly
Access via stairs only

THE MANCHESTER CONTEMPORARY

Preview: Friday 27 October, 5:00 - 9:00pm

Saturday 28 October, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday 29 October, 10:00am - 5:00pm

To coincide with the Launch Weekend, Paradise Works is pleased to showcase selected works from the groups inaugural exhibition, Politics of Paradise. Works by studio artists James Ackerley, William Hughes, Precious Innes, Hilary Jack, Kieran Leach, Jo McGonigal, Robin Megannity, Richard Shields, Cherry Tenneson and Claire Tindale explore the utopian ideals that underpin the groups identity and recent formation on the Salford and Manchester border. The Manchester Contemporary showcase serves as a taster of the group’s extended Politics of Paradise exhibition and open studios across the weekend of The Manchester Contemporary.

themanchestercontemporary.co.uk

AIR 2017: Michelle Shields

As part of our activities setting up Paradise Works we wanted to invite an external artist into our newly formed community to explore and respond to the area surrounding Irwell House. After a chance conversation with Salford born artist Michelle Shields an artist residency seemed like the right way to start to learn about the local area and to think about our place within it.

Michelle's knowledge of Salford, paired with her archival research and responsive approach to environment as she explored a new part of the city, is informing a new body of work which we are looking forward to sharing as part of our launch events over 28-29 October.
 

Organised Labour - The past, present & future of the production site.

Shields’ sculptural works, installations and objects respond to the industrial past of the Greengate area of Salford. Using metal wire, industrial enamel, ceramics, found materials, models and drawings Shields' references the factories & manufacturers which formerly populated the surrounding area, with particular focus on the Anaconda Wire Works that was sited besides Paradise Works at one time. Shields’ works can be understood as open experimental arrangements, or the preliminary findings, of a series of associations to the area's reinvention after its' long standing contribution to the Industrial Revolution.
 

Michelle Shields was born in Salford and attended the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited internationally and her work is held in public and private collections. Michelle often works in interdisciplinary environments and is currently part of Makers Dozen, a collective of twelve creatives from different disciplines. Michelle has taught at Manchester School of Art, and conducted workshops at Salford University, The Royal College of Art & Ruthin Craft Centre.