Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 7:00 pm – Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 9:00 pm
C. R. McBerny: Exhibition and Book Launch
Date: Thursday 14 March 2019
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Yum Yum, 70 Tib Street, Manchester M4 1LG, UK
Performances at 8pm by The Noh Show and Gruppen: Tim Brennan and Mel Galley (Gruppen are Dean Brannagan, Tim Brennan, Mel Galley)
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C. R. McBerny is a collaborative project that explores how contemporary painting, performance and writing might produce overtly emotional and demonstrative forms of discourse between intimate communities of artists and writers in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.
The book launch for C. R. McBerny has been organised to take place in Manchester on the 136th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death. In part, the event aims to connect with the philosopher’s relationship with the city and his research with Friedrich Engels at Manchester’s Cheetham’s Library during 1845 in response to the plight of the English working class at the epicentre of the industrial revolution, which ultimately led to the 1848 political pamphlet The Communist Manifesto.
In 2019, Marx’s grave at Highgate Cemetary has already been seriously vandalised twice, a fact that points to a rise in the far right and an ever-polarised political culture in the UK and abroad. In contrast and as a small symbolic pinprick against this tendency, C. R. McBerny aims to disrupt tribal politics and nationalism through new forms of artistic utopian internationalism.
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C. R. McBerny includes work by Rosa Aiello, Abel Auer, Kamilla Bischof, Juliette Blightman, Zac Bradley, Max Brand, Kerstin Brätsch, Tim Brennan, Matt Copson, Jeff rey Dennis, Martin Ebner, Jenny Eden, Ida Ekblad, Exael, Peter Friel, Jonathan Gean, Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Gondry, Doris Guo, Hacienda Books, Ian Hartshorne, Donna Huddleston, Yannic Joray, Shelby Jackson, Marie Karlberg, Allison Katz, Yuki Kishino, Kitty Kraus, Veit Laurent Kurz, Zarah Landes, Matt Langan-Peck, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Jonas Lipps, Alastair MacKinven, Liz Magor, Roger Malbert, Lin May Saeed, Dawn Mellor, Alexandra Metcalf, Ariane Müller, Mike Nelson, David Osbaldeston, Krista Peters, Seth Pick, Leah Pires, Michael Pollard, Magnus Quaife, Eileen Quinlan, Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe, Benjamin Saurer, Max Schmidtlein, Ben Schumacher, Taketo Shimada, Eric Sidner, Amy Sillman, Brook Sinkinson Withrow, Julian Stalbohm, Harry Stevenson Miller, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stefan Thater, Hanna Törnudd, Myna Trustram, Miriam Vicsaczki, Ellie de Verdier, David Weiss, Issy Wood, and Amelie von Wulff.
Edited by Andrew Hunt and Veit Laurent Kurz
Designed by Sarah Cashman
Published by Slimvolume, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-910516-08-9
Exhibition
Date: Tuesday 4 December 2018 - Thursday 28 February 2019
Location: Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD, UK
Tickets: Free – Just turn up!
C. R. McBerny is a collaborative project that explores how contemporary painting, performance and writing might produce overtly emotional and demonstrative forms of discourse between intimate communities of artists and writers in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. Discrete objects and texts have been produced with a relaxed, informal, easy aestheticism in mind, one conducive to the warm non-institutional semi-domestic nature of each venue.
Performances, lectures, workshops and concerts are included in C. R. McBerny’s activities, alongside a publication that will be launched in February 2019, produced by Slimvolume (London), and distributed worldwide by Cornerhouse Publications (Manchester).
Participating artists from Manchester School of Art include: Zac Bradley, Tim Brennan, Jenny Eden, Ian Hartshorne, David Osbaldeston, Magnus Quaife, Ian Rawlinson, Harry Stevenson Miller, and Myna Trustram.
Other participating artists include: Rosa Aiello, Magnus Andersen, Abel Auer, Kamilla Bischoff, Juliette Blightman, Max Brand, Kerstin Brätsch, Sara Constantino, Matt Copson, Jeffrey Dennis, Simon Denny, Martin Ebner, Ida Ekblad, Exael, Peter Friel, Jonathan Gean, Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Gondry, Doris Guo, Hacienda Books, Donna Huddleston, Yannic Joray, Marie Karlberg, Allison Katz, Yuki Kishino, Kitty Kraus, Zarah Landes, Matt Langan-Peck, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Jonas Lipps, Alastair MacKinven, Roger Malbert, Lin May-Saeed, Dawn Mellor, Alexandra Metcalf, Ariane Müller, Mike Nelson, Krista Peters, Seth Pick, Leah Pires, Mike Pollard, Eileen Quinlan, Nick Crowe, Cameron Rowland, Benjamin Saurer, Max Schmidtlein, Ben Schumacher, Taketo Shimada, Amy Sillman, Nora Schultz, Eric Sidner, Brook Sinkinson Withrow, Julian Stahlbom, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stefan Thater, Hanna Törnudd, Miriam Vacizki, Ellie de Verdier, David Weiss, Issy Wood, and Amelie von Wulffen
Organised by the Manchester School of Art's Professor Andrew Hunt alongside the German artist Veit Laurent Kurz.
Andrew Hunt is Professor of Fine Art and Curating at the Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Recent independent projects include 'C. R. McBerny' (2018) co-organized with the artist Veit Laurent Kurz, ‘The Critic as Artist’ (2017) co-curated with Michael Bracewell, ‘As You Change So Do I’ a series of public art commissions for Luton, UK (2016 to 2019) co-organized with artist Mark Titchner, ‘The Green Ray’, Wilkinson Gallery, London and ‘Concerning Concrete Poetry’, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (both 2016).
The event fits specifically into new research in the Manchester School of Art into international developments into contemporary curating and contemporary painting, both of which are currently major interests at MSoA, especially with the new MA in Painting starting in September. This research is taking place within the Manchester School of Art Research Centre (MSARC). MSARC encompasses research in the disciplines of architecture, art, design and media and research themes of craft and visual culture.