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Spring Tuesday Talk - Tai Shani - at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)

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Dates:10 February 2015
Times:11:00 - 12:30
What is it:Talk
Organiser:The Whitworth
How much:Free
Who is it for:Adults, General public
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Spring Tuesday Talks - at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

Venue for Tuesday Talks on the 20,27 Jan and 10 Feb is: Holden Gallery, MMU’s All Saints Campus. 11am – 12.30pm, FREE, no booking necessary.

The Tuesday Talks series are a collaboration between the Whitworth and Manchester Metropolitan University. While the Whitworth transforms into a 21st century gallery in the park, the talks will be held at MMU. The Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art and is programmed by Professor Pavel Büchler and Bryony Bond.

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Dates and details:

10 February

Tai Shani

Tai Shani works across performance, installation and film. Recent commissions include Dark Continent, made for the exhibition MIRRORCITY at the Hayward Gallery last year. Dark Continent imagined a city of women, a place that was ‘simultaneously internal and geographic, past and future, part ruin, part construction, existing between destruction and becoming.’ Other recent exhibitions and commissions include The Seven Darknesses, The Moving Museum's Open Heart Surgery; And of the Brimming Freeze Frame, The Arnolfini, Bristol; Anti-Antigone End time, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and Loop Festival, Barcelona; Music as Medium, Tate Shots commission, Tate Britain, and Last night I dreamt I was Venus… Barbican, London.

Each Tuesday from 20 January 2015 until 10 March 2015 inclusive - please note talks will be delivered in different venues as below.

Venue: MMU Tuesday 20 January Tuesday 27 January Tuesday 10 February

Venue: The Whitworth Tuesday 17 February Tuesday 24 February Tuesday 3 March Tuesday 10 March

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Venue location details:

For MMU

The Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BR

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For the Whitworth

The Whitworth The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER

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Price: Free

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