CITY AS GYMNASIUM’ - 10^th July – 3^rd October 2009

Preview Thursday 9^th July 6-9pm

CUBE continues to showcase cutting edge projects that explore the Urban Built Environment. Building on our well established reputation fusing together architecture, contemporary art and design.

Their forthcoming exhibition ‘City as Gymnasium’ is Inspired by London 2012 games has been granted the Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The projects aim to showcase ‘alternative’ ways the city is often used as a gymnasium.

The exhibition features work by Lottie Child, Neville Gabie, Peter Liversidge, MediaShed and Tsui Kuang –Yu.

Image above taken from Invisible City: Liverpool Top 9! By Tsui Kuang Yu – the film will be screened daily in the gallery

Lottie Child will be developing ‘Street Training Manchester’ The artist envisages ‘Street Training’ as a new martial art for being safe and joyful on the city streets, making incremental positive changes in the streets and the people who are practicing there. The Artist will be visiting Manchester prior to the exhibition to research potential for joyful interactions and interventions with the place and people. Workshops will then be set up for the general public, these will explain the context, history, methodology and precepts of Street Training.

Visitors to the exhibition will be able to view the first stage developments of the Street Training activity and will also be able to participate themselves by picking up a free street training manual!

 ‘Invisible City: Liverpool top 9!’ by artist Tsui Kuang-yu examines many vaguely defined and strangely designed spaces and facilities from the old urban planning that often  becomes neglected in newly renovated cities throughout the world – the film shows the viewer ways that these spaces can playfully be transformed.

Originally Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 2006

International filmmaker David Valentine (MediaShed) presents a film originally commissioned by Futuresonic festival. The Duellists (ft Methods of Movement) is a free-running meets free-media film in the Manchester Arndale shopping centre when two late night traceurs are caught battling on CCTV. Filmed only using the in-house CCTV network of 160 cameras with a soundtrack created from the environmental noises recorded during production the fascinating results will be screened at CUBE.

Neville Gabie will be exhibiting a series of photographs including newly commissioned works from his ‘Playing Away’ series.  The images act as an objective study of the cultural landscapes with a common obsession, football.

Peter Liversidge presents’ The Perfect Match’ – size 9 carpet slippers (courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery). Peter’s work exists in almost every conceivable medium: drawing, performance, installation, photography, painting, sculpture, interventions and books.  A central aspect of Liversidge’s practice is the making of proposals; groups of hand typed and posted suggestions which range from the ridiculous to the sublime. These often form the basis of his exhibitions, performances and works.

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