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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…
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Origins – Part 1
This is the first post of a new gallery and studio space founded by Riikka Enne and Sophia Moffa: Tape Modern. Tape Modern is a mobile gallery, currently collaborating with a squatting crew Love C.O.Ps [Community Occupied Properties] and operates in various buildings in Manchester. Love C.O.Ps are dedicated to hosting events that are open to all and everyone. I should start from the beginning: Sophia, myself and a third friend of ours, a fellow artist Katerina Eleftheriadou, founded a collective called modestly ambitious. The goal was to find a studio space where we could also host exhibitions and build workshops for wood and metal with all proper equipment,…