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 […]