tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26581184561666235822024-03-13T02:48:54.726+00:00Ruinous RecollectionsArtistic Drifts through Post-Industrial Manchesterrobkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-45693438703090317932008-07-23T14:06:00.004+01:002008-07-23T14:18:05.709+01:00Extended Recollections<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzt0AtaaVxsXu9OT7Csrx5DiJq7jE1Vniol457n28Wj3btZDTZjHb44fKC1ySCnDD4vc2Pw7S27rPlDm60e8iVfXjNzFIp24WqQKtMRa7BMTPeuBwFbzDcvwaxldk4qdGeYgeeIniI1FH/s1600-h/DSC_0171.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzt0AtaaVxsXu9OT7Csrx5DiJq7jE1Vniol457n28Wj3btZDTZjHb44fKC1ySCnDD4vc2Pw7S27rPlDm60e8iVfXjNzFIp24WqQKtMRa7BMTPeuBwFbzDcvwaxldk4qdGeYgeeIniI1FH/s320/DSC_0171.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226197616009259442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33jYdpJ6EqjmpbbHyz46pYXfLV7PAKQzogcO90xr-MMbqryWbwRu52D8sK5xP32Rlhq9lDTHgjkropCy7wHIqMkteBwmREHZHd1RV6PCsnLTvANT_2fMM0RoycRzyWPebNa144rwK0iST/s1600-h/DSC_0066.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33jYdpJ6EqjmpbbHyz46pYXfLV7PAKQzogcO90xr-MMbqryWbwRu52D8sK5xP32Rlhq9lDTHgjkropCy7wHIqMkteBwmREHZHd1RV6PCsnLTvANT_2fMM0RoycRzyWPebNa144rwK0iST/s320/DSC_0066.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226197617089528610" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfKi6Ir0GOPsQ4VVj6PcInGcJ1z769d1ssPg60SL3VA4ehHY4la1iq-SszMhyphenhyphenj_BvyzAMSKw6hxEkmpak7VySy4LomcNHf20yLMUd-gaEQN1BMtgJbHawSPAz378UTp_zdanw9qedCuOv/s1600-h/DSC_0108.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfKi6Ir0GOPsQ4VVj6PcInGcJ1z769d1ssPg60SL3VA4ehHY4la1iq-SszMhyphenhyphenj_BvyzAMSKw6hxEkmpak7VySy4LomcNHf20yLMUd-gaEQN1BMtgJbHawSPAz378UTp_zdanw9qedCuOv/s320/DSC_0108.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226197627650867842" /></a><br />Ruinous Recollections at Upperspace has been extended until 1 August 2008. Thanks to Bec Garland for these images of the installation.robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-9700847378392195992008-07-03T14:03:00.003+01:002008-07-03T14:05:52.523+01:00Curator's Recollections<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9SVL0NdFXNyF27Y-D5YNm_LiOTliUuVCpajnnuRQaCaVVBqBmomUMcrhG12T8ljDO4-mh0OAClDMmMLppNXPPvAhX4aTuy0AhPMTn-7-FJAv3u369MkI3wxdgEZbucEFvVbm7LWkQSvE/s1600-h/POISON.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9SVL0NdFXNyF27Y-D5YNm_LiOTliUuVCpajnnuRQaCaVVBqBmomUMcrhG12T8ljDO4-mh0OAClDMmMLppNXPPvAhX4aTuy0AhPMTn-7-FJAv3u369MkI3wxdgEZbucEFvVbm7LWkQSvE/s320/POISON.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218773244989851906" /></a><br />On Saturday 5th July at 2pm, curators Rob and Darien will be leading a guided tour of the exhibition Ruinous Recollections. Meet at Upperspace in the gallery, all welcome!robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-37989914243969825832008-07-03T13:58:00.003+01:002008-07-03T14:03:36.012+01:00Ruinous Opening<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg955H0ARCE7jeeGROm4YhcrOJBFMua6KTV8Z5qTp5plOD2qPYyeBqerzzUupIzLfQxEXtcoXWGI-HxomKgteArtm_CNeV7BYHosm_3WPB8kH675apTK75NWXtwX0BvuKZ8qkfMBFSqzip_/s1600-h/bec_installation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg955H0ARCE7jeeGROm4YhcrOJBFMua6KTV8Z5qTp5plOD2qPYyeBqerzzUupIzLfQxEXtcoXWGI-HxomKgteArtm_CNeV7BYHosm_3WPB8kH675apTK75NWXtwX0BvuKZ8qkfMBFSqzip_/s320/bec_installation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218772517348597922" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4-BqRL_3pz_VuVIq25UQi7HLed8x1Q6JCHGUjUclJuM5_8mu6_pU_8t8L0EZ4I6qelSFjirEztebES_vyADj2YeUdPbOIRZMeEVTimLjpE6TXdreTgxu7Q3tRPzNL4DcWySCkjOU7re-/s1600-h/gallery_image.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4-BqRL_3pz_VuVIq25UQi7HLed8x1Q6JCHGUjUclJuM5_8mu6_pU_8t8L0EZ4I6qelSFjirEztebES_vyADj2YeUdPbOIRZMeEVTimLjpE6TXdreTgxu7Q3tRPzNL4DcWySCkjOU7re-/s320/gallery_image.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218772520401341858" /></a><br />Last Friday saw the successful opening of Ruinous Recollections: Artistic Drifts Through Post-Industrial Manchester at Upperspace, Newton Street, Manchester. Massive thanks and congratulations to everyone who helped us put the exhibition together, especially to our artists.<br /><br />The exhibition runs until Tuesday 22nd July, come visit!robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-82184895274355371322008-06-12T09:51:00.003+01:002008-06-12T18:22:01.082+01:00Searching for Sebald<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdXBLLeVfghfOTA8Mc2MfzXTkLHMBQFqj1ys-3ymZ5WGvi3g1acHV7kBJwnlrJcLs1X_uPtziIXn2n9sQKL8a04URJ45p5RkxaSzP3W0UKSos8RQIKKWPklEt24zAmsdMVSf0jk34PYhx/s1600-h/Lem_Great+Bridgewater.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdXBLLeVfghfOTA8Mc2MfzXTkLHMBQFqj1ys-3ymZ5WGvi3g1acHV7kBJwnlrJcLs1X_uPtziIXn2n9sQKL8a04URJ45p5RkxaSzP3W0UKSos8RQIKKWPklEt24zAmsdMVSf0jk34PYhx/s320/Lem_Great+Bridgewater.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210915272674345586" border="0" /></a><br />Victoria Lem's photographs trace memories of place, the remnants of past activities. For Ruinous Recollections, Vic is searching for Sebald, the German author who discovered echoes of his own traumatic past in Manchester and Salford's industrial shadows. The image above from Castlefield basin represents the initial experience of Vic's exploration of Sebald's spatial memories. Visit her blog for more insight into her thoughts on the project.<br /><br /><a href="http://victorialem.blogspot.com/">http://victorialem.blogspot.com/</a>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-92085519100616208122008-06-04T12:50:00.002+01:002008-06-04T12:54:26.789+01:00Describing Industrial RuinsThe language used to describe the industrial ruin is closely in tune with the vocabulary of death and decay. Identified with decomposition and the corpse, industrial ruins are verbally described as sites that rot through the passing of time, architectures that ultimately present a skeleton of their original form. To align ruins with death implies a collection of negative connotations. Within this dialogue, ruins are unpleasant blemishes upon the urban fabric, cancerous sites in the city. Industrial ruins crumble, collapse, decay, disintegrate, decompose, fragment and perish. The literal allusions to death are magnified as these buildings become mouldy, smelling and rotting like cadavers. Despite the olfactory and visual analogies to the deceased corpse, industrial ruins are not dead, useless spaces. It is their decay that allows them to be sites of memory, where the ghosts to the past can inhabit the present.darienjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15358384045041571810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-72745729018609664642008-06-04T11:55:00.002+01:002008-06-04T12:02:31.742+01:00Flyering Recollections<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5VUoGOzH8RboKyiQWzniD8KROTC3awWed1uCF2MZSbsah3X5daYERDH_1dCuUkhKsJ55wOe6hctRWu4yRu7LYu3OlYxivbGYqNvDloaEv9oPaCHNyX7sAIVw0QP5gTKetyy-kFs21IPX/s1600-h/ruinous-e-flyer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5VUoGOzH8RboKyiQWzniD8KROTC3awWed1uCF2MZSbsah3X5daYERDH_1dCuUkhKsJ55wOe6hctRWu4yRu7LYu3OlYxivbGYqNvDloaEv9oPaCHNyX7sAIVw0QP5gTKetyy-kFs21IPX/s320/ruinous-e-flyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207978351766625106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Above is the great new flyer for Ruinous Recollections at Upper Space Gallery, opening Friday 27th June 2008. Special thanks to Nick for designing it and to Bec for letting us use her work in progress photograph of Cecil Street. Please come along to the exhibition, and see what our five fantastic artists have been discovering & creating!</span></span>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-13853134825939149952008-06-03T10:31:00.007+01:002008-06-18T18:06:03.526+01:00From Sackville to Tiergarten<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HaNX-7HoB75ZKvzZZfdXW3T7CrMNl-FNpgBrNnBO9zZyOz7-Vu3Iw7RVIX86hkhIEH7OVNRbLjgB63Rb_USbdX6rxdI1Q9C4v2boS7aSLMvw9QTa3huI5X6qAtH_bfvqvamRTqeUxHsm/s1600-h/DSC03230.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HaNX-7HoB75ZKvzZZfdXW3T7CrMNl-FNpgBrNnBO9zZyOz7-Vu3Iw7RVIX86hkhIEH7OVNRbLjgB63Rb_USbdX6rxdI1Q9C4v2boS7aSLMvw9QTa3huI5X6qAtH_bfvqvamRTqeUxHsm/s320/DSC03230.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207587110310730562" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Visit Paul Harfleet's excellent blog to discover more of his thoughts on researching for Ruinous Recollections. Paul recently exhibited in Berlin, and whilst there had chance to visit the new National Memorial for Homosexual Victims of National Socialism in Tiergarten. In his post, he links this site with the Sackville Park location of Turing's monument, bringing both into his work's exploration of the depiction of gayness in the heteronormative public environment.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.paulharfleet.blogspot.com">http://www.paulharfleet.blogspot.com</a></div>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-39084112323088507502008-05-29T18:14:00.002+01:002008-05-29T18:19:39.737+01:00Quote of the Day"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty that needs to be done" — Alan Turing.darienjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15358384045041571810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-42142250692836089302008-05-29T11:04:00.003+01:002008-06-12T18:23:13.352+01:00Ruinous Lecture<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:city><st1:place>Darien</st1:place></st1:city> and Rob will be speaking about Ruinous Recollections at MMU’s psychogeography festival TRIP, whilst Paul will be presenting his Pansy Project as well - come along to hear more! (We're on first thing on Thursday 19<sup>th</sup> June)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://trip2008.wordpress.com/">http://trip2008.wordpress.com/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-5170481802823084722008-05-29T10:59:00.002+01:002008-05-29T11:10:19.242+01:00Private Views<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG68s_J-PF6HdlbR2B32M1o435bw2kUGkIDW5hHNVUlCLkJoFHYbMCMSG0LqUaeo6NhK37x0bRFVGwL-us77-wNBdaCVSA7k37V3BmKQxkJdix3cPQRc48qsQFd2fUbKq7rwXEYwRmaFn7/s1600-h/SunshineHouseSmall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG68s_J-PF6HdlbR2B32M1o435bw2kUGkIDW5hHNVUlCLkJoFHYbMCMSG0LqUaeo6NhK37x0bRFVGwL-us77-wNBdaCVSA7k37V3BmKQxkJdix3cPQRc48qsQFd2fUbKq7rwXEYwRmaFn7/s320/SunshineHouseSmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205738328753265458" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:11;">Ruinous Recollections</span></i><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > will open at the Upper Space Gallery, Sunshine Studios, </span><st1:street style="font-family:arial;"><st1:address><span style="font-size:11;">Newton Street</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > on </span><st1:date year="2008" day="27" month="6" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:11;">Friday 27th June 2008</span></st1:date><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >.<span style=""> </span>The exhibition is intended as a works-in-progress look at the projects our artists are working on: the displays will evolve over the course of the exhibition, as layers of stories are uncovered through their interactions and explorations through </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">'s post-industrial cityscape.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-87159095283957529772008-05-29T10:58:00.002+01:002008-05-29T11:09:39.679+01:00Loiterers Resist<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Drifting through the city of <st1:city><st1:place>Manchester</st1:place></st1:city> one finds fellow wanderers walking in the same direction, or perhaps just loitering…like our friends from the Loiterers Resistance Movement, whose Second Accidental International Festival of Psychogeography is on now. Have a dérive across to the address below for more details…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.nowhere-fest.blogspot.com/">http://www.nowhere-fest.blogspot.com/</a></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-66515596043117427562008-05-29T10:55:00.002+01:002008-05-29T11:08:50.101+01:00Xaverian Orange<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:11;">Barney Francis has joined Ruinous Recollections.<span style=""> </span>Barney will present proposals for transcriptions in the city drawing on the memory, literature and presence of Anthony Burgess.<span style=""> </span>Burgess grew up and studied at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;">Xaverian</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:11;">College</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size:11;"> in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >, before leaving the city to fight in WW2. Barney's art will work dystopian palimpsests of the city, mixing the sites of Burgess' childhood with the images of his later writings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-25606858785681350272008-05-29T10:52:00.002+01:002008-05-29T11:08:09.727+01:00Dissecting the Map<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRib7wd4E2j2OE5sdBBxUdUEP1yxHp8p1aHFFbA88RROM8Lp5irw8C4b9QMnM1jxlq9rOifEn6VOQ9gs5KuMgClXNvguX9dnnpd6PcePaT35q1NVipHbOXzFAVST8g9M08idsSyVsIyNL3/s1600-h/Hamilton_rubble+close+painting.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRib7wd4E2j2OE5sdBBxUdUEP1yxHp8p1aHFFbA88RROM8Lp5irw8C4b9QMnM1jxlq9rOifEn6VOQ9gs5KuMgClXNvguX9dnnpd6PcePaT35q1NVipHbOXzFAVST8g9M08idsSyVsIyNL3/s320/Hamilton_rubble+close+painting.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205736151204846370" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >Illustrator Nick Hamilton will be producing new work for Ruinous Recollections.<span style=""> </span>Nick is part of the </span><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;">Sketch</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:11;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > collective of urban artists, and will be looking at the </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > links of Peter Mark Roget, who is famous for devising the Thesaurus.<span style=""> </span>Roget first drafted his Thesaurus whilst a doctor in the city, using the lists he compiled as a personal therapeutic device.<span style=""> </span>Drawing on influences from anatomical illustrations, linguistics and mapping Nick will produce illustrations that re-imagine Roget's </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> in multi-layered personal narratives. Above is an example of Nick's bold graphic style.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-37439483834036654092008-05-29T10:47:00.002+01:002008-05-29T10:49:27.085+01:00Salford Drifting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2n6vYB3NEoZwh3QcfXA4erKg9ZPQKBHFi_GPlqzdV8SlAEKNBqigZQ7m9QGdC6p3GErwS52sDYYVpOJ4cftgEDG-F3BhSy1zJ4sJrhCUbM9-pCb14RF9oObrvoQ7DeZE4DQF-5aUAPXHx/s1600-h/Lem_Barnes+Hospital.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2n6vYB3NEoZwh3QcfXA4erKg9ZPQKBHFi_GPlqzdV8SlAEKNBqigZQ7m9QGdC6p3GErwS52sDYYVpOJ4cftgEDG-F3BhSy1zJ4sJrhCUbM9-pCb14RF9oObrvoQ7DeZE4DQF-5aUAPXHx/s320/Lem_Barnes+Hospital.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205734424627993362" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-size:11;" >In his novel <i style="">The Emigrants</i>, W.G. Sebald memorably draws upon his own experiences of </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=";font-size:11;" > to evoke a walk along the </span><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:11;">Ship Canal</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=";font-size:11;" > into </span><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:11;">Salford</span></st1:place><span style=";font-size:11;" >.<span style=""> </span>The encounters with the built environment he details upon the way develop into an affective topography of the industrial vista.<span style=""> </span>This episode will form the basis for Victoria Lem's works for Ruinous Recollections.<span style=""> </span>Vic </span></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" >photographs post-industrial ruins, uncovering ghostly remnants of preserved memory, often adding extra layers of palimpsestuous reading to her artefacts by using a time-based pin hole camera techniques and by making spectral fragmented screen prints of the images she captures - the dramatic photograph above is from a series Vic took at Barnes Hospital. Re-tracing the footsteps of Sebald, Vic will add her own memories and fictions to the city.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-50050476982163721012008-05-29T10:43:00.004+01:002008-05-29T10:50:43.895+01:00Streets Dissolve<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRA-uWOLMESAIDFztbfQp98BuizBudfkU7TnaIYGWqaD3_BWyV0IXp6yQRTxvMGUbJ7__WKcTr2NhLdQWGGdsZeL_WuiXc7_TZRbYb8PSFD0aU2jkf7TtRbvK3EGoLu7au8kkTzl_-v15J/s1600-h/garland_cecil.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRA-uWOLMESAIDFztbfQp98BuizBudfkU7TnaIYGWqaD3_BWyV0IXp6yQRTxvMGUbJ7__WKcTr2NhLdQWGGdsZeL_WuiXc7_TZRbYb8PSFD0aU2jkf7TtRbvK3EGoLu7au8kkTzl_-v15J/s320/garland_cecil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205733256396888834" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >Using a Holga Camera, Bec Garland has taken haunting photos of the sites where Engels and the Burns sisters used to live in </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">. The Holga gives the images their distinctive diffuse edge, creatively suggesting the dissolution that these streets have experienced in the 150 years since Engels lived there: an archaeology of memory layered onto buildings past and present.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-51650635755053728392008-05-29T10:38:00.003+01:002008-05-29T10:51:19.329+01:00Sisters of Industry<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KA_tDPF0FNwSrGAzFI-5ZyYLhrDNfoOg3H4UV2wvF6oxuq-dA-0SwlvC4NNoOMm2VVGYDridZ9CgdgwH6bwJktSndC3n53r_GjltQTbqkNNKb0A_ugMPGpVBsYkAd-GVJLmkFbfpU2qq/s1600-h/Garland_Take+Pictures.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KA_tDPF0FNwSrGAzFI-5ZyYLhrDNfoOg3H4UV2wvF6oxuq-dA-0SwlvC4NNoOMm2VVGYDridZ9CgdgwH6bwJktSndC3n53r_GjltQTbqkNNKb0A_ugMPGpVBsYkAd-GVJLmkFbfpU2qq/s320/Garland_Take+Pictures.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205732418878266098" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >Bec Garland has joined the Ruinous Recollections project.<span style=""> </span>Bec works in the space between image and text, juxtaposing photography, word and illustration.<span style=""> </span>Looking at the spectral sites where Manchester-Irish factory girls Mary and Lizzie Burns lived with Friedrich Engels in </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">, her artworks will aim to discover imaginary spaces and dialogues hidden beneath the current city.</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-17299212459133328292008-05-29T10:30:00.004+01:002008-05-29T10:51:49.207+01:00The Apple and the Mathematician<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHp19VHw8epRVVESWC5rpBv3VVR9lliXETaQdBeqFedqntgoacIFXz4OiLAzDzqTN5R3uF0KHqHPKraGqFCyiZnYQtYmrepfyNQ3guJwtAvnWSrO1wuIufE2bqWT-rcrGMrwq1FHxQm6V/s1600-h/Harfleet_Pansy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHp19VHw8epRVVESWC5rpBv3VVR9lliXETaQdBeqFedqntgoacIFXz4OiLAzDzqTN5R3uF0KHqHPKraGqFCyiZnYQtYmrepfyNQ3guJwtAvnWSrO1wuIufE2bqWT-rcrGMrwq1FHxQm6V/s320/Harfleet_Pansy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205731207697488594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >Paul Harfleet will</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > be creating new works for Ruinous Recollections.<span style=""> </span>Paul is perhaps best known for his internationally-renowned Pansy Project, which documents instances of homophobic abuse by the planting of pansies at the site.<span style=""> </span>For RR, Paul will be exploring the life and death of Alan Turing in </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >. The founder of modern computing worked in the city after WW2 before committing suicide with a cyanide-laced apple.<span style=""> </span>Using the statue of Turing in </span><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;">Sackville</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size:11;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:11;">Park</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > as a starting point, Paul aims to explore the symbolism of the apple, and map different myths of gay </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" > in the 1950s and today.<span style=""> </span>Here is an example of the Pansy Project, plus an example of Paul's initial sketches for the project.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxL7jxvTDAWF1wRMFzMRGw4tP7kZ1oJH2CgVDNPT6T0Ec7x9vq2-Jxx4BpKhhy0DkLoyylCzG9ONZWYXb7GMySanGtMfrrzOFyXM-I63LZu_y2DfqFpVuCEWYgNFXE6lXDU1dZRBzYhJn/s1600-h/Harfleet_Turing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxL7jxvTDAWF1wRMFzMRGw4tP7kZ1oJH2CgVDNPT6T0Ec7x9vq2-Jxx4BpKhhy0DkLoyylCzG9ONZWYXb7GMySanGtMfrrzOFyXM-I63LZu_y2DfqFpVuCEWYgNFXE6lXDU1dZRBzYhJn/s320/Harfleet_Turing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205731207697488610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-13179775550243113442008-05-27T16:37:00.004+01:002008-05-29T09:12:48.972+01:00Stories from the City<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Behind the visible built environment of the city lurk fictions and memories latent within urban space. The abandoned stories and neglected narratives that echo through the red-brick ruins of post-industrial Manchester represent a drift of deleterious dereliction, a literary psychogeography of the city where spectres of a forgotten past ghost-write their tales onto the decaying urban fabric. Part of Ruinous Recollections is unearthing these stories, and connecting them with contemporary artists, who through their work can elaborate upon the myths of city space.</span></span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br /><span style=" ;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11pt;"><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658118456166623582.post-83381506301104604662008-05-27T16:28:00.002+01:002008-05-27T16:33:32.493+01:00Ruinous Beginnings<p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruinous Recollections</span> is an art project established by two Manchester-based curators, Darien Jane Rozentals and Robert Knifton. Taking multiple stories of the city as its start point, it will create works that </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:11;" >etch memories into </span><st1:city style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="font-size:11;">Manchester</span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:11;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">'s urban canvas, re-imagining and adding layers to an already fluid city. This blog will document the project as it evolves...</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>robkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16466472109573458401noreply@blogger.com1