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<font color="#003333" face="sans-serif"><b><big><big><big>ANTIFREEZE
2009</big></big></big></b><br>
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Already voted the 6th best thing to do this summer by The Times Online
and it hasn't even happened yet!<br>
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Contents May Vary are hosting Manchester's very first art car boot fair
on Saturday 4th of July 2009 with over 60 artists and artist-led
groups, projects, galleries and publishers showcasing site responsive
installations, performances, video installations, zine stalls and
temporary gallery sites. The event is part of Trade City at the CHIPS
building in Manchester City Centre and will be coinciding with the
Manchester International Festival.<br>
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<b>Saturday 4th July 2009, 12-7pm, </b></font><font color="#003333"><b><font
face="sans-serif">free entry.</font><br>
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CHIPS Building, 2 Lampwick Lane, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6BU</b><br>
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ANTIFREEZE is an exhibition about the high-end art market delivered
within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to
hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial
practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with
artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical,
social, economical, geographical and literal situation. <br>
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Manchester's first art car boot fair will be a stroll through the
embodied thoughts of over 60 artists from across the UK and beyond, who
through no fault of their own have been put in a place beneath and
above many others in the art industry. We have given them a platform to
vent their airs and graces and woes and praises, present their skills
and collections, to succeed and fail, to make money and lose faith, to
spend hours in traffic getting here and minutes setting up their work
without our help so people they don't know can spend seconds judging
them on it. <br>
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<u><b>Participating artists:</b></u><br>
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<b>100th Monkey<br>
Airspace Gallery<br>
Richard Aldred<br>
Stephen Ashdown, Frances Blythe, Antony Clarkson, Siân Green, Naomi
Lethbridge<br>
Beth Barlow<br>
Bearspace: Isabel Rock<br>
Samantha Bell<br>
Richard Birdseed and Dan Blacklodge<br>
Black Dogs<br>
Sophie Bower<br>
Alice Bradshaw<br>
Megan Broadmeadow<br>
Camp Yellow: Mike Redmond, Faye Johnson and Lisa Handley<br>
Elena Cassidy Smith, Mitra Memarzia and Bec Garland<br>
Cheap Magazine<br>
Ben Connell<br>
Joe Duffy<br>
Eagle and Feather (AKA Julian Lloyd Butler & Stephen Earl Rogers)<br>
Exhibit X<br>
Micheal Farquar<br>
Sue Fox<br>
FRUNT<br>
Gerth Gratrix<br>
Anton Harding<br>
Annie Harrison and Jane Lawson<br>
Marielle Hehir<br>
Adam Higman and Tim Sargent <br>
Intercity Mainline<br>
Hilary Jack<br>
Gwen Jones<br>
Helen Kaplinsky<br>
Magdalena Natalia Kwiatkowska<br>
Alison Kershaw<br>
L-13: Harry Adams, James Caouty, Billy Childish, James Reid<br>
Felicity Langthorne, Alison Stockwell, Hannah Marsden, Claire Rowlands,
Steven Walker and Laura Kirby<br>
Jude Macpherson<br>
Alexis Milne<br>
Mirror Mirror<br>
Liz Murphy<br>
New Curiosity Shop<br>
Caron Ottewell and Victoria Foster<br>
Julia Peat with assistance from Cargos casual team member Jayne Seddon<br>
Delphine Perrot<br>
Platform58<br>
Pool Arts: Annette Ebanks, Trae England, Tess Lomas, Colin Nixon, Eddie
Price, Siobhan Samuels, Nicola Smith, David Speer<br>
Adam Renshaw<br>
Nick Rhodes<br>
Sophie Rogers<br>
Chiz Turnross<br>
Richard Shields<br>
Lucy May Scofield<br>
Shufflebottom<br>
Sketch City<br>
Emily Smallwood<br>
Anna Stogdon<br>
Jared Szpakowski<br>
Joyce Wan<br>
Tom Watson<br>
Olivia Williams<br>
YES IT IS: Anna Beam, Lora Avedian, Laura Gee, Georgina Sullivan<br>
Yorkshire Sculptors Group</b><br>
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<b>About Contents May Vary:</b><br>
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color="#003333" face="sans-serif">Contents May Vary show collectively
as well as
individually and also organize large-scale exhibitions inviting other
artists to participate. We find new and challenging ways to exhibit
with particular focus on site-responsivitey to non-conventional and
everyday spaces. Additionally, we run an independent free-of-charge
publication with international distribution.<br>
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We may not be the first artist collective formed in Manchester but in
2009 we are the only one that matters. A legacy has been created since
our inception with astounding effects on our peers, tutors and the
excess of artists we have created a platform for.<br>
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Now CMV is coming into an age of expertise not only in the production
of shows but also as veterans of the site specific as we take
Manchester as inspiration in our ever evolving and improving ethos. <br>
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Our work incorporates visceral splendor within the many disciplines we
employ and we choose to place work amidst the everyday, negating the
often too prevalent fear of walking into a clinical gallery space. We
create immediate connections with the spectator through the syntax of a
common environment. CMV puts art under Manchester's dirty, wet shoes.<br>
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Our openings and events create a social platform bringing artists and
viewers together from across the social spectrum to the best effect
witnessed in Manchester. We're self-perpetuating, we're DIY, we're the
A team of art, we're an outlaw's horse, we believe our own hype. No one
could do what we do as well as we do it.<br>
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Contents May Vary are shortlisted for the Best of Manchester 2009
Awards and will be exhibiting at Urbis 24th July - 20th September 2009.
The winner will be announced 23rd July 2009.<br>
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Contents May Vary is co-directed by Alice Bradshaw, Liz Murphy and
Richard Shields</font><font color="#003333"><br>
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About Trade City:</b>
Centred on the notion of trade pursued as a
livelihood, this exhibition reflects the trading that has taken place
between the artists and curators making up 13 independent, citywide,
art initiatives. This alternative economy draws reference from and
plays off the city's pioneering economic heritage. Through Trade City,
Contemporary Art Manchester proposes an innovative approach to
displaying the social transactions of contemporary art at this moment.<br>
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<b>About Contemporary Art Manchester: </b>The partners within CAM
consortium are unified in their role to programme artists' work,
through diverse and innovative curatorial frameworks including
exhibition, screening and publication formats. Current partners of CAM
include twenty+3 projects, 100th Monkey, Bureau, Castlefield Gallery,
Contents May Vary, Edmundson & Quaife, Exocet, FutureEverything,
Gymnasium, Interval, Islington Mill Art Academy, Harfleet and Jack,
Salford Restoration Office and Rogue Project Space.<br>
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Trade City is supported by Arts Council England</font>
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