Opening night
Phantasmagoria opening celebrations
15:00–16:30 & 18:00–20:00
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age and Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library.
All welcome, free entry
Refreshments will be served inside and Fennell’s small batch ice-cream will be available outside.
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Tickets
Booking for this event is not essential, but an RSVP is useful to help us plan.
Afternoon session: 15:00–16:30
Evening session: 18:00–20:00
If you would prefer a more relaxed and spacious experience, please book a place on the afternoon session, or call +44 (0)113 246 7467.
About the exhibitions
Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Discover a new generation of artists exploring how digital technologies are reshaping what sculpture can be, and how they can be used to tell stories about our past, present and future.
The exhibition includes sculpture, moving image, performance, video games and installation by Jürgen Baumann, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Nina Davies, Joey Holder, Joe Moss, Most Dismal Swamp, Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, Isaac Lythgoe and Rustan Söderling.
Including Infinite Customisation V outside the Institute, 18:00–20:00
Joe Moss in collaboration with SATTIRE, Yokomuki UK and Side Events present Infinite Customisation V, a modified car meet for the opening night Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, extending the exhibition into the street.
Find a selection of heavily customised cars in Victoria Gardens, directly outside the Institute, to be experienced as both social objects and sculptural forms. A combined soundtrack will be played from the sound systems of the cars. Digitally distorted by artist Joe Moss, the work reassembles the audio landscape that has informed the culture, including genres such as J-pop, 00’s rave music and pirate radio recordings.
Enter the Institute to discover Phantasmagoria and Joe Moss’ Time Compression series, a number of laser engravings on cardboard. This highly technical process captures what Moss calls the ‘digital noise’ of our contemporary visual economy: a composition of found and AI-generated images, fragments from popular culture and indefinable texture.
“The modified car scene is a culture that is intrinsically linked to digital culture, through the aesthetic references in the cars themselves and the way the cars, content and associated events are shared online.
I’ve been a fan of the modified car scene since I was a teenager, fitting hatchbacks with extreme exhausts and going to car meets to look at impressive builds, something I still do with friends.
When you look at the cars you will see elements of other visual cultures, all bolted together to make unique forms. Gull wing doors from hypercars, retro typography and references to online subcultures. The audio work I’m presenting uses these same logics of distribution, modification and assemblage to create a soundscape, played by the cars themselves.”
Joe Moss
Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
The Sculpture Research Library on the first floor of the Institute holds over 30,000 books, catalogues, journals and audio-visual materials dedicated to sculpture. Among them, artists’ books – conceived as artworks in their own right – form a distinctive and growing part of the collection, often developed through close collaboration between artists and curators.
This display focuses on five rare bookworks by Japanese artist Yoko Terauchi (b.1954) from our artists’ book collection.
Accessibility
If you would like to talk to us about any access concerns before the event, you can email us at institute@henry-moore.org, or call us on 01132 467 467.
Step-free access
Our accessible entrance is on Cookridge Street, with a lift (doors 100cm wide) bringing you onto the ground floor of the building. There…
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Step-free access
Our accessible entrance is on Cookridge Street, with a lift (doors 100cm wide) bringing you onto the ground floor of the building.
There is an internal passenger lift (doors 72cm wide) to all floors of the building.
Braille & large print
Braille and large print versions of descriptive text about our exhibitions are available at the welcome desk.
Audio guide
We produce audio guides with descriptions of the artworks in our exhibitions. Due to some exhibitions having many artworks, we can’t guarantee that…
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Audio guide
We produce audio guides with descriptions of the artworks in our exhibitions. Due to some exhibitions having many artworks, we can’t guarantee that there will be audio descriptions for all the works on display.
You can pick up a handheld audio player and headphones outside the sculpture galleries, or use your own device by scanning the QR codes next to the artworks.
Induction loops
There are induction loops at the welcome desk on the ground floor, library reception and in the seminar room. There is a portable…
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Induction loops
There are induction loops at the welcome desk on the ground floor, library reception and in the seminar room.
There is a portable induction loop available for visitors to use in the galleries (please ask at the welcome desk).
Seating
Seating is always available in our shop and welcome area. You can also pick up a portable seat here to take with you…
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Seating
Seating is always available in our shop and welcome area. You can also pick up a portable seat here to take with you in the galleries.
While we try to always include seating in our exhibition spaces, due to the changing nature of our exhibitions we cannot always guarantee this.
Quiet space
There is a quiet space available in a room off from The Studio on the second floor of the building. Please ask a…
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Quiet space
There is a quiet space available in a room off from The Studio on the second floor of the building. Please ask a member of staff if you would like to use this space at any time during your visit.
Quiet times to visit
If you’d prefer a quieter, more relaxed visit, then we recommend visiting on a Tuesday between 10:00 and 12:00. Occasionally we have school…
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Quiet times to visit
If you’d prefer a quieter, more relaxed visit, then we recommend visiting on a Tuesday between 10:00 and 12:00.
Occasionally we have school groups booked to visit then, so feel free to contact us beforehand to check if that is the case when you are planning to visit.
T: 01132 467 467
E: institute@henry-moore.org
Toilets
Outside the seminar room on the basement level we have three gender-neutral superloos (self-contained cubicles with a toilet and sink). Additionally, there is…
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Toilets
Outside the seminar room on the basement level we have three gender-neutral superloos (self-contained cubicles with a toilet and sink).
Additionally, there is one gender-neutral, accessible superloo, and one superloo with baby changing facilities.
The closest Changing Places toilet is located in Leeds City Museum, which is approximately a 350m walk from us over a mostly flat and pedestrianised route, with one pelican crossing. See here for Leeds City Museum opening times and contact details.
Guide dogs
Guide dogs, hearing dogs and other badged assistance dogs are welcome in our galleries and at our events. There is a small grassy…
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Guide dogs
Guide dogs, hearing dogs and other badged assistance dogs are welcome in our galleries and at our events.
There is a small grassy area just outside the Institute, suitable for spending. The nearest larger green space is Park Square.
A water bowl for dogs is available, please ask a member of staff at the welcome desk who will fetch it for you.
Getting here
Find us next door to Leeds Art Gallery on Victoria Gardens, in the centre of Leeds. Our step-free entrance is on Cookridge Street.
Henry Moore Institute
74 The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AH
United Kingdom
T: 01132 467 467
E: institute@henry-moore.org
Visual Guide: Directions from Leeds Train Station to Henry Moore Institute
A step-by-step guide with photos to help you navigate from Leeds Train Station to Henry Moore Institute.
Walking this route takes around ten minutes. It is mostly flat, with a slight uphill incline in places. Crossing some roads is necessary, but these all have pedestrian crossing in place.