Saturday, July 2 at 2:00pm – July 16 at 2:00am
Manchester Art Crawl is a festival of contemporary art and ideas as part of the Not Part Of Festival offering a DIY, artist led, experimental fringe event to the Manchester International Festival. The festival straddles Manchester City Centre and neighbouring Salford occupying art and non art spaces alike. Spaces include the new Crawl Space on Ducie Street which acts as the research centre and hub for the festival. Other venues include Blank Space, Kraak Gallery, Islington Mill and Piccadilly Place.
The Art Crawl starts at The Triangle Shopping centre, the info hub for the festival where you can collect your maps and plan your personal crawl through the city beginning with the shows housed in empty units within the centre. The opening day will last between 2pm and 2am ending at Islington Mill with an experimental photography show, bbq, djs and a party in the gallery and courtyard.
The Art Crawl has a research focus on live art, at the centre of the festival the research hub invites artists and their public to discuss their ideas, concepts and interactions relating to the relationship between artist and viewer during the festival. The Art Crawl champions experimentation, interactivity, accessibility and the sharing of information. It is for this reason that the festival is #opendata and completely committed to transparency. This is done with the aim to encourage open experimentation with the festival internally and externally. The festival will prompt questions around what #opendata can mean to art, the relationship between artists, thinkers and data and the distribution of the results with an audience.
As part of the festival there is a big weekend of practice based research with talks, workshops, discussions and presentations. This takes place on the 2nd weekend of the festival between 9-10th of July, 12pm until 8pm with a café and donation bar at Crawl Space. All are invited to meet, gather and share ideas, research and stories of what happened out on ‘the street’ and in the spaces about individual artists’ work, research and interactions. Artists are invited to experiment with whatever output deemed appropriate to get thoughts across during this time. This can be a chat, a presentation, a video, images, sound, a workshop, a reading, a performance or just a discussion about something interesting. These ideas and thoughts will form the basis for the next jumping off point for the Manchester Art Crawl.
More information of individual artists work to be released via website soon.
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