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Past Events Sponsored by the Centre - 2006

Conferences & Symposia:

• ‘Histories of Surrealism’ session, AAH Annual Conference
  5-7 April
  Leeds

• ‘New Perpectives on Surrealism and Its Legacies’ – Fourth Annual PhD Symposium
  2 June 2006
  Tate Modern

• Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Obsolete: A Symposium

18 November 2006
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

A one-day symposium organised by Julia Kelly (University of Manchester), Anna Dezeuze (University of Manchester) and Jo Applin (University of York) in association with the AHRC Research Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Manchester, the Henry Moore Institute, and the University of York.

Exhibitions:

• Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miro, Masson and the Vision of Georges Bataille

11 May - 30 July, Hayward Gallery, London

Undercover Surrealism brought together the works of great avant-garde figures under the sign of the long-overlooked philosopher and ‘dissident’ surrealist Georges Bataille and of his journal Documents.

The exhibition catalogue, edited by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker and with essays by Neil Cox, Caroline Hancock, Denis Hollier, William Jeffett, C.F.B. Miller, Michael Richardson, and Ian Walker was awarded The Art Newspaper & AXA Award Catalogue of the Year.

Visiting Scholars:

Dr Steve Harris, University of Alberta

• ‘The Inoperative Community in Post-War European Art or, The Collective at Play’.
  27 April, University of Essex
• ‘The Idea of Experiment in Post-War Avant-Gardes’.
  2 May, University of Manchester
• ‘Pataphysical Graham: A consideration of the Pataphysical Dimension of the Artistic Practice of Rodney Graham’.
  3 May, Tate Britain

Artists' Residency:

• Jorge Macchi in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky

The Argentinean artist Jorge Macchi was the Centre's artist in residence in 2006. Working with the composer Edgardo Rudnitzky, Jorge Macchi created two new installations: The Singers' Room and Twilight.

Research Seminars (University of Manchester):

• Charles Miller (University of Essex)
  19 January
  'Bataille/Picasso: The Crucifixion of the Signifer'.
• James Boaden (Courtauld Institute of Art)
  9 February
  'Jess, Cornell and the Outmoded Interior'.
• Marion Endt (University of Manchester)
  15 February
  'Curiosomania? The Insect in Surrealism and Contemporary Cabinets of Curiosities'.
• Michael Taylor (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  21 February
  'Behind the Scenes at the Museum: the Public Unveiling of Duchamp's Etant donnés'.
• Donna Roberts (University of Essex)
  9 March,
  'Frantisek Skala: Romanticism and Surrealism in Contemporary Czech Art'.
• Anthony White (University of Melbourne
  28 March
  'From "Nature" to "The End of God": Lucio Fontana and Technological Modernity in the 1960s'.
• Patricia Allmer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  26 April
  'Framing the Real: Frames and the Process of Framing in René Magritte's Œuvre'.
• Karolina Watras (University of Cambridge)
  11 May
  'Between Word and Image: Post-War Czech Surrealist Photography'.