Sunday 1 June 2008

urban (col)laboratory manchester: blind spots

Urban Laboratory are Helen Stratford and Diana Wesser.

Helen Stratford is an architect based in Cambridge, UK, she is a member of feminist art/architecture collaborative taking place. Located between art, architecture and writing, her work uses critical and feminist theories to resist and move beyond binary and gendered representational systems.

Diana Wesser is a performance/media artist based in Leipzig, Germany. Through videos, performances and participatory projects she investigates social and cultural codes, how they become apparent in the body and its relation to space.

For further details and individual CVs see www.takingplace.org.uk & www.dianawesser.de

The LRM are delighted to be welcoming Urban Laboratory to Manchester this week; they will be researching and producing a performance that will take place on Friday 6th June.

They will be watching Manchester's daily routines and looking at the city as a stage for every day performances which construct reality.....

Watch this space for more details.... x

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