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SUMMARY:Being Human Exhibition: Entangled Light: A More-Than-Human Photography Studio
DESCRIPTION:This is a Walk-In Exhibition\, no booking necessary. \n\n\n\nAs part of Being Human Festival 2026\, join artist-researchers Helen McGhie and Anthony Hall from Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts for an evening exploring urban gardens as spaces for creativity\, community connection and sustainable futures.  \n\n\n\nEntangled Light is a pop-up outdoor exhibition of photographs made using light generated by soil. Creating a garden-powered\, or ‘more-than-human’\, photography studio\, communities in Salford built ‘mud batteries’ from recycled materials to imagine new energy systems during lead-in workshops led by Antony Hall and Helen McGhie. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit Islington Mill and Incredible Edible Salford’s community garden to discover studio photographs displayed in plant pots and hanging from balconies\, including a series of portraits by photographer Helen McGhie and still life images created by Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy and local residents.Visitors can learn how living soil can generate energy\, experiment with a soil-powered light\, and imagine what the future might look like using alternative energy sources. This event is for anyone interested in art\, photography\, creativity\, community projects\, gardening and sustainable living. \n\n\n\nThe event is part of the Entangled Light series. \n\n\n\n\nOther Events Linked to the Exhibition\n\n\n\nWednesday 11 November | 5:00pm – 6:00pm | Creative Reflections from the Garden \n\n\n\nAn engaging roundtable discussion exploring the role of urban gardens as spaces for creative\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nWednesday 11 November | 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Exhibition Tour and Late Opening \n\n\n\nContinue the evening with a guided tour of the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoundtable : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\nLate Tour : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Helen McGhie \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.beinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/being-human-exhibition-entangled-light-a-more-than-human-photography-studio/
LOCATION:Islington Mill\, 1 James Street\, Ordsall\, Salford M3 5HW\, Manchester\, Greater Manchester\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Q&A - Space\, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Manchester Metropolitan University for the launch of Dr Vanessa Longden’s new book\, Space\, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography\, published as part of the Routledge History of Photography collection in 2026.  \n\n\n\nThe event will introduce the book’s key ideas through short readings\, followed by a broader panel discussion bringing together researchers and practitioners working across photography\, visual culture\, gender and spatial studies.  \n\n\n\nThe discussion will explore different approaches to photography\, place and environment\, with an opportunity for the audience to contribute questions and reflections.   \n\n\n\nSpace\, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography\n\n\n\nOffering readers a nuanced perception of Francesca Woodman’s work while challenging long-held psycho-biographical notions about her identity\, this book provides an alternative critical enquiry that foregrounds lived experience\, materiality and gender.  \n\n\n\nTaking an interdisciplinary approach\, the study examines the complex relationship between the body and place in Woodman’s self-representational photography by combining the history of photography\, gender studies and spatial studies.   \n\n\n\nThe author provides a highly original visual analysis by situating Woodman’s practice within her wider cultural network\, including Judy Chicago\, Miriam Schapiro\, Gordon Matta-Clark\, Carrie Mae Weems and Agnes Denes. Highlighting the artist’s visual juxtapositions\, the book emphasises the socio-political complexities of placemaking and challenges how readers think about the traditional art-historical canon.  \n\n\n\nThe book will be of interest to those working or studying in photography\, art history\, visual culture\, gender studies\, urban and spatial studies\, as well as anyone interested in Francesca Woodman’s work.  \n\n\n\nPanel \n\n\n\nProfessor Patrizia Di Bello: \n\n\n\nPhotography historian\, researcher and academic at Birkbeck\, specialising in the cultural\, social and material histories of photography\, with particular interests in women\, feminism and photographic practices. \n\n\n\nShe is Editor-in-Chief of History of Photography and co-directs Birkbeck’s History and Theory of Photography Research Centre. \n\n\n\nDr Vanessa Longden: \n\n\n\nDr Vanessa Longden is a researcher and Practice Research Manager at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests include embodiment and identity in visual culture\, representations of decay\, and architectural liminality. Space\, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography is her first academic monograph.  \n\n\n\nThe Woodman Family Foundation was established by Betty Woodman (1930–2018) and George Woodman (1932–2017) during their lifetimes. Love of beauty was at the heart of their lives and art. In this spirit\, the Foundation is dedicated to stewarding the artistic legacies of Betty\, George\, and their daughter\, Francesca Woodman (1958–1981). It maintains a substantial collection of artworks by each artist\, from all periods and media\, which are made available to museums\, cultural institutions\, scholars\, and artists to further the appreciation and understanding of their work. The Foundation places their artworks in public collections and makes grants. The Foundation is also undertaking the preservation and cataloguing of their extensive archives to make this information accessible for scholarly study. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDesigned Cover Image: Francesca Woodman From Space² (or Space²)\, 1976 c Woodman Family Foundation / DACS London
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-francesca-woodman/
LOCATION:Greater Manchester
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SUMMARY:What Time is Now? Being Human - museum takeover
DESCRIPTION:What Time is Now? Being Human ‘museum takeover’ event\,The Whitaker museum: Sunday 8th November 11 – 4pm. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat Time is Now? will be a one day ‘museum takeover’ of participatory research events and activities at the Whitaker Museum\, Rawtenstall as part of the UK wide Being Human festival https://www.beinghumanfestival.org \n\n\n\nHosted by the research network ‘What Time is Now?: New Temporalities in an Era of Endings’ this event will facilitate new public responses to the unique collections of the Whitaker Museum and bring to new audiences aspects of the ongoing research of this cross-institutional network. \n\n\n\nWhat Time is Now? is a network of artists\, historians and museum professionals convened by Dr. Brigid McLeer\, Manchester School of Art\, MMU and Prof. Claire Langhamer\, Director\, Institute for Historical Research\, University of London.Our network engages in speculative\, holistic and process-led research\, across the arts and humanities\, to better understand and communicate the complex temporalities of our times. Participants work with ‘time’ as subject\, material and heritage\, and publish and exhibit internationally. Collectively\, we explore new disciplinary encounters and dialogues for this research. The diverse events in our museum takeover will engage the public with research through bespoke\, practice-based activities that speak to and extend these encounters.   \n\n\n\nEvents will take place throughout the day across different spaces in the Whitaker and include phytography and print workshops\, talks\, participatory activities and musical/sound installations*. \n\n\n\n*Some events involve advance engagement or booking ahead. See Whitaker website for details https://www.thewhitaker.org \n\n\n\nEvents through the day\n\n\n\nTime Block – woodblock printmaking project based around the Whitaker clock with live participation producing a large collective ‘print’ in the Barn space. Oran O’Reilly and Brigid McLeer (MMU)Phytography workshop – participatory project the outcomes from which will be on display in microfiche format in the foyer space along with a magic lantern from the museum collection.  Dave Griffiths  (Independent artist based in Manchester)Clatter and Squarks  – new sound compositions made in response to and reinstalled into the Cabinet of Curiosities Paul Archbold + students from Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, London Lives of the Dead  – performance lecture hosted in the taxidermy collections\, Hardman Room (Sign-up beforehand 5/6 participants max)  Brigid McLeer (MMU)Timepieces – video dance work (and possible score) with a participatory element\, alongside a museum-type display of a textile artefact sent from South India. Located in the Training Room space (TBC)  Kiran Kuman (Independent artist/dance scholar from Bangalore\, India)Musical Crossroads  – visitors will nominate a song that is meaningful to them\, and say why on record cards\,  which will be added to a collective playlist playing throughout the day in the Reflect and Respond room.  Claire Langhamer and Hester Barron (IHR and University of Sussex)Time in Dreams and Myth  – interactive storytelling workshop (Reflect and Respond room)     Amber Jacobs (Birkbeck University)\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIt is part of Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities\, taking place 5–14 November 2026. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. \n\n\n\nbeinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/what-time-is-now/
LOCATION:The Whitaker\, The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery\, Haslingden Road\, Rossendale\, BB4 6RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:Entangled Light exhibition | Creative Reflections from the Garden
DESCRIPTION:Explore Entangled Light during a special late opening at Islington Mill\, featuring a roundtable discussion\, exhibition tour and a pop-up soil-powered light installation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs part of Being Human Festival 2026\, join artist-researchers Helen McGhie and Anthony Hall from Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts for an evening exploring urban gardens as spaces for creativity\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nThe event brings together reflections from the Entangled Light project\, which explored relationships between photography\, ecology\, community and place through a series of creative workshops with local participants. \n\n\n\n\nFree – Booking advised due to limited spaces \n\n\n\nAll events take place at Islington Mill\, 1 James St\, Salford M3 5HW.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n5:00pm – 6:00pm | Creative Reflections from the Garden\n\n\n\nAn engaging roundtable discussion exploring the role of urban gardens as spaces for creative\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nThe session will introduce the Entangled Light project and invite participants to reflect on the photographs and idea developed through the project’s garden-based workshops. It will include a guided walk through the garden and conversations around ecology cultural greening and the future of shared urban spaces \n\n\n\n\nDuring this event\, participants will: \n\n\n\n\nReflect on the photographs and ideas explored through the garden exhibition\n\n\n\nExperience a pop-up soil-powered light installation\n\n\n\nLearn about the development of the project and its outcomes\n\n\n\nShare ideas about community gardens\, creativity and sustainable futures\n\n\n\nMeet participants\, creative practitioners and organisations connected to the project\n\n\n\nEnjoy light refreshments from the Deli Lama café at Islington Mill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEntangled Light participants include Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford gardeners and local residents. Whether you participated in Entangled Light or are visiting the exhibition for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\n\nEventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm | Exhibition Tour and Late Opening\n\n\n\nContinue the evening with a guided tour of the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition explores relationships between creativity\, ecology\, sustainable energy and place. Photographs include portraits of Salford communities made by Helen McGhie and still life images created by Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford volunteers and local residents. \n\n\n\nVisitors can also experience a pop-up soil experience a pop-up soil-powered light installation in More-Than-Human Photography Studio\, located within the shipping container where the photographs were created. \n\n\n\n\nDuring this event\, participants will: \n\n\n\n\nExplore the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads\n\n\n\nLearn about the creative processes behind the project\n\n\n\nExperience a pop-up soil-powered light installation\n\n\n\nMeet project participants and learn about their involvement with Entangled Light\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEntangled Light participants include Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford gardeners and local residents. Whether you participated in Entangled Light or are visiting the exhibition for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\n\nEventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is part of Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities\, taking place 5–14 November 2026. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. \n\n\n\nbeinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/entangled-light-exhibition/
LOCATION:Greater Manchester
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SUMMARY:Entangled Light exhibition | Exhibition Tour and Late Opening
DESCRIPTION:Explore Entangled Light during a special late opening at Islington Mill\, featuring a roundtable discussion\, exhibition tour and a pop-up soil-powered light installation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs part of Being Human Festival 2026\, join artist-researchers Helen McGhie and Anthony Hall from Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts for an evening exploring urban gardens as spaces for creativity\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nThe event brings together reflections from the Entangled Light project\, which explored relationships between photography\, ecology\, community and place through a series of creative workshops with local participants. \n\n\n\n\nFree – Booking advised due to limited spaces \n\n\n\nAll events take place at Islington Mill\, 1 James St\, Salford M3 5HW.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n5:00pm – 6:00pm | Creative Reflections from the Garden\n\n\n\nAn engaging roundtable discussion exploring the role of urban gardens as spaces for creative\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nThe session will introduce the Entangled Light project and invite participants to reflect on the photographs and idea developed through the project’s garden-based workshops. It will include a guided walk through the garden and conversations around ecology cultural greening and the future of shared urban spaces \n\n\n\n\nDuring this event\, participants will: \n\n\n\n\nReflect on the photographs and ideas explored through the garden exhibition\n\n\n\nExperience a pop-up soil-powered light installation\n\n\n\nLearn about the development of the project and its outcomes\n\n\n\nShare ideas about community gardens\, creativity and sustainable futures\n\n\n\nMeet participants\, creative practitioners and organisations connected to the project\n\n\n\nEnjoy light refreshments from the Deli Lama café at Islington Mill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEntangled Light participants include Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford gardeners and local residents. Whether you participated in Entangled Light or are visiting the exhibition for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\n\nROUNDTABLE : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm | Exhibition Tour and Late Opening\n\n\n\nContinue the evening with a guided tour of the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition explores relationships between creativity\, ecology\, sustainable energy and place. Photographs include portraits of Salford communities made by Helen McGhie and still life images created by Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford volunteers and local residents. \n\n\n\nVisitors can also experience a pop-up soil experience a pop-up soil-powered light installation in More-Than-Human Photography Studio\, located within the shipping container where the photographs were created. \n\n\n\n\nDuring this event\, participants will: \n\n\n\n\nExplore the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads\n\n\n\nLearn about the creative processes behind the project\n\n\n\nExperience a pop-up soil-powered light installation\n\n\n\nMeet project participants and learn about their involvement with Entangled Light\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEntangled Light participants include Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy\, Incredible Edible Salford gardeners and local residents. Whether you participated in Entangled Light or are visiting the exhibition for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\n\nTOUR : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is part of Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities\, taking place 5–14 November 2026. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. \n\n\n\nbeinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/entangled-light-exhibition-2/
LOCATION:Islington Mill\, Islington Mill\, 1 James St\, Salford\, M3 5HW
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Exhibition,Talks
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