Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social media to re-think the boundaries of […]

Members of the established theatre groups, Reckless Sleepers (UK/Belgium) and LUME (Brazil) will, for the first time, engage in a public dialogue about their distinct practices, specifically with a focus on performer training. LUME was founded at UNICAMP, in 1985, as a research centre in action, conceived by Luís Otávio Burnier. In 1993 it became […]

Granny Jackson’s Dead is an immersive performance and research project about technology, memory and mourning, which asks what’s good and what’s not-so-good about the ways that technology is changing our ritual lives. This project has involved collaboration with researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University who are working with Big Telly Theatre Company to understand more about what […]

Melanie Wilson is a U.K. based inter-disciplinary performance maker. Her acclaimed work is founded on the dialogue between sound, experimental forms of composition, language, technology and live performance. Melanie’s work exists to connect and question, and to create space for audiences to feel and think deeply through listening. Melanie Wilson Projects works to develop and […]

The Manchester Game Centre is proud to support an exhibition of two VR artworks by Performance Research Group member, Adinda van’t Klooster:  the AudioVirtualizer (2019) and VRoar  (2023). You can experience these artworks and take part in a playtest and evaluation activity from Thursday 28 November to Friday 6 December, in the Holden Gallery, in […]

Future Flares Festival returns once again, with a curated programme of innovative politically engaged performances, plus related talks and workshops. This year's line-up will feature work from radical performance makers including 'Get Off', an ‘in yer face’ look at desire by Katy Baird, the ecologically devastating 'Vigil' by Mechanimal/Tom Bailey, and what promises to be a thrilling new ‘30 […]

Dan Dubowitz is Reader in Architecture and the International Lead for Manchester School of Architecture. He heads up he FLUX Atelier and is co-chair of the schools expert panel which delivers the ‘Provocations’ series, inspirations talks, Atelier nights, and the salons programme. Trained as an architect, Dan worked for architectural and design practices in London […]

Stephen Scott-Bottoms Stephen Scott-Bottoms is a writer, researcher and theatre-maker. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the University of Manchester, having previously taught in Leeds and Glasgow. Steve is the author of several books, most recently Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons and Performance (University of Michigan Press […]

ynn Setterington is an internationally recognised artist working in the textiles arena. Her work explores contemporary issues in society and how stitch can be used to commemorate people and communities. Her quilts and cloths are held in many major public museums including the V&A, Crafts Council, IQSC and Whitworth Art Gallery. In the 1990s she […]

Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Jenny Eden Jurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer and curator who is based in Athens and Berlin. He is the author of Why Paintings Work (2023) and Salt in the Wound. Encountering Contemporary Artists across Europe (2019). His reviews and essays are published in Artforum International, The Brooklyn Rail, on […]

Emerging out of a series of workshops exploring the dialogical relationship between contemporary dance technique, improvisation and creative reflection, this choreography has been created by Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk in collaboration with a group of participants including professional independent artists and students at Manchester Metropolitan University from the MA/MFA Performance, BA Drama and Contemporary Performance, BA Acting […]

Amanda Beech x Adam Walker Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. In video, painting and other forms, her work apprehends structures that subtend and are coextensive with our lived reality. She invests in the capacity for a new form of realism that demands the invention of new explicatory forms of reason and contingency. Her […]