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Allure of Sorts, sorted
Many many thanks to all the artists who performed with us! It was quite an exciting day and there were a lot of interesting reactions from the passers-by ranging from interference and popping a performer’s balloon to a security guard participating instead of moving us! There were a few last-minute changes, unfortunately, Katie Shevlin could not participate and a few locations changed on the fly, but all in all, it was a good day that ran fairly smoothly. Every time one performs in a public space, the element of surprise is greater than in any gallery, just to state the obvious. You never know what the audience will do since…
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Origins – Part 2
After all the clearing, cleaning, fixing and building we had a studio at the Cozy. I had had an amazing time with the crew, I felt welcomed and I enjoyed the groups dynamic of a dysfunctional family of organised chaos. The people, the stories and everything in that place hooked me completely. Some of them I knew from before, seen them in demonstrations or at the first Mancunian squat I visited at the Corner House, some I even knew from uni, but most of them were complete strangers to me when I started working there. On top of that, the environment suited my art practice perfectly: work with site specific…