Ancestral Avant-Gardes
This one-day event, organised by art historian and critic Claire Bishop, will offer a range of artistic approaches to ancestrality in contemporary art and performance.
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Art historian and critic Claire Bishop presents Ancestral Avant-Gardes
The Art Research Group at Manchester School of Art invites you to a conference organised by Professor Claire Bishop from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Visiting Chair on Campus 2025 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University
Can digital mixed reality technology offer an engaging sensorial experience for audiences with additional needs?
“Sensorial Dreams,” an immersive VR theatre experience presented at The Royal Exchange Theatre, combined sensory…
Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers
A body of scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that schools are places where linguistic injustice is…
Future Flares Festival returns for a 3rd Edition to explore our changing world through art, performance and play
Future Flares Festival returns for the third time, to bring a vibrant programme of performances, talks and workshops
19th Century Now!
Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today.
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
AHEAD at Manchester Met invites you to join regional and national thinkers, as well as researchers and practitioners working in arts and humanities, to help us set out a new agenda for how these disciplines can contribute to the policy debate and be a vital force in discourse about national renewal.
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis invites MMU academics and guests to discuss themes of cultural policy
Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.
Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.