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The Ride of Life at Woodstock, Oxfordshire

10th January to 28th March 2010

The Oxfordshire Museum
Fletcher’s House
Park Street
Woodstock
OX20 1SN

Automata portraying a satire on the 1980s British way of life in the form of the Adam and Eve public bar. The scene throbs and pulses with fertility and creation! Designed by Ron Fuller. Includes adult content and is not suitable for children.

El Parque de las Ciencias – Granada – Spain

Extended by popular demand.
1st November – 31st Jan 2010 14th February 2010

El Parque de las Ciencias
Avda. del Mediterraneo s/n
18006 Granada
Spain

A new exhibition including large scale work from Carlos Zapata, and Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre.

Press Article

News Video

http://www.parqueciencias.com/

Don Harrington Discovery Centre – Texas – USA

‘Amazing Amusing Machines’ – Touring Exhibition

Opens June 2nd 2009
Closes September 20th 2009
Extended by popular demand!
Now closes 8th January 2010.

1200 Streit Drive
Amarillo
Texas
79106
USA

http://www.dhdc.org/

DASA – Dortmund – Germany

October 4th to December 30th 2009

DASA
Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25
D-44149 Dortmund,
Germany

Our European Travelling Exhibition moves to Germany, and is be hosted by DASA, a fascinating venue, which explores the world of humans and their work. Extraordinary innovative exhibition design challenges all the senses while experiencing yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s world of work.

http://www.dasa-dortmund.de

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre – Ginza – Tokyo – Japan

CMT Japanese Touring Exhibition
Open 1st May – 25th December 2009

Ginza 6-8-3 Owaricho Bldg. 1F (at the corner of Miyuki St. and Suzuran St.)
Chūō-ku
Tokyo
JAPAN

Opening hours
Mon-Fri: 11:30-18:30
Sat, Sun & National Holidays: 11:00-19:00
No charge – machines are coin operated.

These exhibits were originally on display in Otaru, Hokkaido for over 15 years.

Mechanics Alive!! returns from the 2008 tour of Australia to make it’s first visit to Scotland.
26th June 2009 – 28th September 2009

225 Scotland Street
Glasgow
G5 8QB

Scotland Street School Museum site

El Parque de las Ciencias – Granada – Spain

CMT European Touring Exhibition

Extended due to popular demand!

Opens 3rd November 2008
Now closes 31st March 2009

Our European Touring exhibition moves to a stunning setting in Granada, Southern Spain beneath the Sierra Nevada.

See all the exhibits here.

Avda. del Mediterraneo
18006 Granada
Spain

For more info:
http://www.parqueciencias.com/

‘Amazing Amusing Machines’ – Touring Exhibition

Opens 1st October 2008
Closes 2nd March 2009

Our collection of 20 exhibits from the Fourteen Ball Toy Company is spending six months in Chicago – a great holiday outing!

5700 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago,
IL 60637
USA

For more info:
http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/cabaret-mechanical-theatre/

‘Mechanics Alive!!’ – Touring Exhibition

Opens 1st November 2008
Closes 27th January 2009

The Australian Tour continues and “Mechanics Alive!!’ has moved from Perth to Canberra – 35 pieces plus workshops.

See all the exhibits here.

King Edward Terrace
Canberra
ACT 2600
Australia

For more info:
http://www.questacon.edu.au/

15th March – 11th May 2008
The Western Australia Museum, Perth, WA, Australia

Mechanics Alive was on show as part of the 20th UNIMA Congress and World Puppetry Festival presented by Spare Parts puppet theatre.

It was Cabaret Mechanical Theatre’s first exhibition in Australia.

22nd February – 31st August 2008

phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany

Over 100,000 visitors have enjoyed the exhibition at phaeno in Germany,
which featured the work of 10 CMT artists as well as Arthur Ganson, Norman Tuck and Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. Click here for images of the show.

Article in Time Magazine

July 26th – September 30th 2007
Thailand Creative and Design Center, Bangkok

Mechanics Alive!! was officially opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Siriwanwaree Nareeratana of Thailand. The exhibition is proving to be a real crowd pleaser.

April 12th – May 19th 2007
Seongnam Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
23rd May until 30th June 2007
Chungmu Art Hall, Seoul, Korea

This first ever Korean tour has been organised by our colleague Min Kyoung Cho, at UTOSPACE. Cho has been a tremendous fan of CMT since she first saw our exhibition at the Oxo Gallery in London 3 years ago.

6th April to 5th May 2007

Kinetica Museum Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6AA

Come and see this fantastic new exhibition with over 80 pieces of automata from the past 28 years of CMT, featuring the work of 19 artists, including Paul Spooner, Arthur Ganson, Ron Fuller, Peter Markey, Tim Hunkin and Carlos Zapata.

Tim Hunkin’s Chiropodist will be on hand to treat your tired feet, and we also have the last remaining scene from the Ride of Life.

December 10th 2006 – March 22nd 2007
Singapore Science Centre

The exhibition is part of iFutures a celebration of new technologies in Singapore. CMT’s automata are used to introduce a pre-digital and artistic element to the exhibition.
There are a series of workshops planned using the Designing Automata Kit.

Until 23rd September 2006 our Touring Exhibition Mechanics Alive!! is part of a new automata exhibition at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. Also featuring the work of Johnny White, Martin Smith, Carlos Zapata, Andy Hazel, Tom Wilkinson, Ian Mckay, John Lumbus and Robert Race.

St John’s Church
Church Square
Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire
DN15 6TB

Update: Exhibition extended until September 2006
Opening Hours:
Monday – Closed
Tuesday through Thursday – 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Friday & Saturday – 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Sunday – 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM

Science Station
427 First St. S.E.
Cedar Rapids,
IA 52402-1808
USA

Phone: (319) 363-4629

Link: http://www.sciencestation.org/

Join us for our annual exhibition and programme of workshops.

8th December ‘05 to 2nd January ‘06
(Closed 25th, 26th December)
Open Daily 11 a.m. To 6 pm
(Dec 24th and 31st, 11a.m. To 3 pm)
Admission Free

We have a fantastic exhibition of over 60 pieces of automata, many original works and some new pieces from Paul Spooner, Keith Newstead, Peter Markey, Ron Fuller, Carlos Zapata, Martin Smith, Matt Smith and Tim Hunkin.

Come and press the buttons and turn the handles to bring the pieces to life, start to understand the ingenious mechanisms that make them work, and then have a go at making your own.

Our touring exhibition travels to France this winter to:

Musée du Temps
4 place Granvelle
25000 Besançon
FRANCE

26th Nov 2005 – 8th January 2006

You can see thirty original works by Paul Spooner, Keith Newstead, Ron Fuller, Peter Markey and Michael Howard.

For more information
tel: +33 (0) 3818 78430
e-mail: julie.nuyts@besancon.com

Our USA touring exhibit Amazing Amusing Machines, (last seen at Exploratorium, San Francisco, summer 2004) is scheduled to delight the crowds at the Science Museum of Minnesota from 19th Oct. 2005 until Jan 2006.

Start to understand the mechanics behind the pieces, as CMT’s Barecats guide you through this fascinating exhibition with their simple explanations and amusing insights.

You will want to try making your own – help is at hand!

November 3 & 5 Create Your Own Automata!
Cabaret Mechanical Theater Workshops
Join Sue Jackson and Sarah Alexander, automata artists and curators of Cabaret Mechanical Theater, for a workshop exploring the world and construction of Automata (mechanical puppets).
Adult Automata Workshop
Thursday, November 3; 7-9 p.m.
Family Automata Workshop
Saturday, November 5; 1-3 p.m.

We are delighted to show six of our favourite pieces of Paul Spooner’s automata, including Manet’s Olympia, as part of Save the Robots a major exhibition and festival at The Ark, Dublin’s Cultural Centre for Children. The exhibition celebrates the astonishing world of artificial humans and mechanical beasts.
22nd June to 30th Sept. 2005
The Ark, 11a Eustace Street, Dublin
Tel: + 353 (0) 670 7788

‘Jeux d’Automates – créations animées pour petits et grands’

5th November – 5th December 2004

Musée des Automates
Hôtel Arturo Lopez
12, rue du Centre
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
FRANCE

Featured work from:
Keith Newstead, Peter Markey, Carlos Zapata, Matt Smith, Paul Spooner, Nikki Taylor and Martin Smith, as well as French artist Andre Demoulin.

This was a rare chance to see a gathering of Spooner’s work. The last solo exhibition was ‘Scenes from Everyday Life’ in 1993, (Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent Garden).

Inspired by the collection of model butcher’s shops in the Museum of Childhood, London, most of Spooner’s new mechanical works feature small buildings, carved and painted meat and the figure of the butcher – a man prepared to take care of the sticky business that many of us shy away from…

September 20th – September 25th 2004

Gallery 27 – 27 Cork Street, London W1

Talk: Paul Spooner gave a talk and guided tour of the exhibition at 3 pm on Thursday 23rd September. Article: An article on Paul Spooner and the new show was in The Observer (Sun. 5th Sep.). You can read it without the pictures here.