Past Events Sponsored by the Centre - 2005
Conferences & Symposia:
- Experiment-Experimentalism: An International Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Avant-Garde Visual Culture
11-12 March 2005
Manchester Museum
- 'Surrealism Laid Bare, Anew' – Fourth International Symposium on Surrealism
13-15 May
Edward James Foundation
West Dean College, Chichester
- 'New Perspectives on Surrealism and its Legacies’ – Third Annual PhD Symposium
6 June 2005
Tate Britain, London
- Mass Observation, Surrealism and the Everyday
4 November
Manchester Museum
- Khalo’s Contemporaries
4 November
University of Essex
Exhibitions:
- Khalo’s Contemporaries: Mexico, Women, Surrealism
3 October - 4 November
University Gallery, University of EssexThe exhibition Khalo’s Contemporaries: Mexico, Women, Surrealism, curated by Dawn Ades, showed the works of Frida Kahlo alongside those those of contemporary women artists active in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Artist's Residency:
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Mark Dion's Surrealist Bureau
Renowned internationally for his museum-based interventions, Dion’s residency with the AHRC Surrealism Centre culminated in the creation of a mock bureau for surrealist research within the Manchester Museum. Sifting through the Museum’s rich collections with an eye for the strange and unclassifiable, Dion has created a fantastic ambiance that is surrealist in spirit and that evokes, in the manner of a cabinet of curiosity, their passion for collecting objects, both natural and man-made. An artist's book by Mark Dion that accompanies the installation has been published by Bookworks.
Research Seminars:
- Robert Lubar, ‘Dalí’s Incredible, Edible, Pre-Oedipal Beauty’ and ‘Miró and the Trajectory of Desire’
21-24 February 2005
University of Essex, University of Manchester & Tate
Artists' Conversations:
- Communicating Vessels: Affinities Between Surrealism and Contemporary Art
21 April 2005, Richard Wentworth
28 April 2005, Mark Dion
6 May 2005, Pavel BüchlerManchester Museum