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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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Allure of Sorts
A collaboration between Scaffold Gallery and Tape Modern presents, Allure of Sorts.We are holding a one one-day performance festival where performances will ripple across Manchester city centre. We invite the use of architecture, history, the cityscape and relation with the social landscape of activity. This project was born out of a need to be within life, to not be exclusive. The event will probe on the uselessness but essentiality of art and what is the accepted use of public space; What is space and how do we occupy it? Is the white box tired? How does performance art operate in public space? Our largest pool of witnesses will be the…
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Where to begin after such a time…
In the last post I said we were trying to find a new building as soon as possible. Well, it didn’t happen soon. The blue building, the one we last moved into, was not good for us. It was big and gorgeous yes, but we couldn’t get running water without a flood, and the electricity situation was a bit precarious to say the least. On top of that, some of the supporting columns were dangerously rotten. Without running water everything felt difficult and our kitchen situation was sad. One can be happy without such luxuries but then you kinda want to be in nature, camping or something. This felt too…
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Show’s over
The Dogs have eaten all the Food and our show is closed. Many thanks to all our artists, visitors and the squat crew for sharing this with us! Before we move on to transforming the space back to an artist studio, there’s still a few things about the show we would like to share with you: Last Friday we had a small event at the gallery: altercation by enne&moffa was performed for the second and last time. We had a small but a lovely crowd to experience the work and the wine with us. I don’t usually repeat a performance so it was an interesting and new experience for me…