Helen Knowles' "Growth Investment" will feature plant-paper casts of botanical instruments and will be sited in the Royal Exchange Theatre on Cross Street. The artwork highlights the international movement of plants as a highly valued commodity from the colonial era to the present day.
Maggie Lambert's "Asylum Seekers" will challenge our notions of the word "alien" via vibrant photographs of spacemen and refugees. Images on Gloucester Street will recall the complex history of immigration & change which characterises the old "little Ireland" area of Manchester
Last but certainly not least, "This Is Camp X-Ray" consists of a fully operational, life-size replica of the US internment camp at Guantanamo Bay. From Friday 10 Oct artist Jai Redman, in collaboration with local political art group UHC collective, will create a fully functioning internment camp in the city centre. It will be built and maintained using only mainstream media images as its source. It is the artist's intention to keep nine volunteer "unlawful combatants" incarcerated in the Manchester camp for 9 days & nights, under 24 hour surveillance & "armed" guard. (REPORT)
Sarah Irving, UHC Collective (0161 238 8523, [email protected])
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