Mapping Manchester Nov 2010

An evening exploring mapping at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester showing works by Manchester Modernist Society, Nogo Voyages, Manchester Municipal Design Corporation, Students from the MA Design Lab at Manchester School of Art and the interactive digital arts project Comob by Jen Southern & Chris Speed.  

 

 

 

Contemporary Cartography //01 Manchester and Salford Oct 2010

A pocket map of Manchester's creative economy developed with MA students on the Design Lab course at Manchester Metropolitan University. The intention of the map is to present the range of contemporary arts activity occurring within Manchester and the spaces and facilities that support new work - listing established organisations next to independent initiatives to give an overview of what makes up, and contributes to, the creative economy of the city. A preview of the map was distributed as part of the Manchester Weekender, a city wide event on 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October. As part of the Manchester Weekender we further organised a series of tours throughout the city with the for more information on the project and its continued development Whitworth Art Gallery adult programme and MMU Design Lab Students. visit Manchester Municipal Design Corporation's website - www.mmdc.org.uk

 

 

 

Listening to the Corncrake July 2009

Working with Corridor8 and Urbis, Manchester, I commissioned and produced an audio guide for the city with the writer Iain Sinclair. Using Sinclair's walk through Manchester as an introductory guide to the city, his written account of the journey was re-recorded into audio format. The audio was available to download from the Corridor8 and Urbis websites and could be used as a directional guide or a narrative account of the cityscape.

 

  

 

The Magnetic North July 2009

A map of participatory and socially engaged art projects occurring across the M62 corridor encompassing the cities, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull. Published in Corridor8 Art and the Supercity. Designed in collaboration with Studio Dust Sheffield.

 

 

RUNNER

Collaborating with the artist Amy Feneck we created a series of durational running performances between 2006-8. We used the action as a means to physically engage with a space, navigating the cityscape. The collaboration culminated in mapping a journey across the UK, running in a number of different cities - http://sparror.cubecinema.com/running. Our collaborative process led to a commission for the Great North Run Cultural Programme in 2009 


 

The Streets Do Flow August 2009

 Working with a group of runners training for the Great North Run we researched and produced an alternative map of the cityscape. All routes, pathways and landmarks were dictated by the journeys of local runners. We further worked with Studio Dust designers in Sheffield to transform our gathered research a billboard image for the town centre and a series of texts intervening in the local newspaper. The completed works were further exhibited in Hit the Ground at the Hatton Gallery Newcastle.