Sunday 21^st February   5.30 - 6.30pm

Mike Chavez-Dawson Interactive art talk

Interdisciplinary artist, Mike Chavez-Dawson, shall give an overview of his current projects linking their genealogy to past works, with insights to professional issues and top tips on how to survive as an artist.

Please bring pen and note pads, also.... think of your favorite word. 

Mike graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, Interactive Arts BA (Hon's) in 1997 and MA (Art as Environment) in 1999. He was the Visual Arts Editor for Flux Magazine and founding curator for Flux Space for just over a decade.

Chavez-Dawson work’s crosses an interesting path of disciplines, such as fine art & design, performance, music, curating and publishing.

His intention is to expand and challenge an audiences experience whilst offering alternative means to interpret.

To date he’s ran a gallery in a publication, utilsed alter egos as living portraits, ran a club night as an artwork, formed a band to explore the relationship between visual presentation and it’s audio, interviewed dead artists through a spiritual medium, created a cinema using hypnotism and gave gallery tour's as estate agents and crime solving detectives.

Mike’s recent shows/projects include:

‘Unrealised Potential’ Cornerhouse, Manchester. ‘Involved Socially’, Base Gallery, San Francisco, USA.   ‘Title Murdered’, ‘Strange Days & Some Flowers’, The Storey Gallery, Lancaster. ‘Selling the Psycho-Geographical Breakdown’ for Afterhours ‘Subversive Spaces’, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. ‘A bANDdA dA’ Late at the TATE, TATE Britain, London.

For more info: www.myspace.com/mikechavezdawson.