5 August –16 October 2016

Upon watching CCTV footage of a ghost reportedly seen by staff in the pub Ye Olde Man and Scythe in Bolton, Lu Pingyuan decided to use his exhibition at CFCCA to catch it, as an attempt to ‘take something back’ from the UK in response to that which was lost through the UK’s colonial past. The pub, which dates from 1251, is the fourth oldest pub in Britain and is reputedly haunted by the Seventh Earl of Derby, James Stanley. The royalist, whose family originally owned the inn, is said to have spent the last hours of his life there before he was beheaded in 1651.

21 October – 15 January 2017

Yin-Ju Chen is a multimedia practitioner who in recent years has explored the function of power in human society, collective thinking and collective unconsciousness, and most recently the relationship between human behaviour and the cosmos. Her three-part project Extrastellar Evaluations continues her research into dystopia, conspiracy and art history through the mythological land of Lemuria and its inhabitants.