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ExtInked

Food Factory

Laser Jetty

Giant Map Pin

map pin searchlight bunker walney island

It's Not As Rough As It Used To Be

A Public of Sorts

Valentine's Lectures

Thursday's 'Valentine's Day Lecture' in the street outside the university art department.

Bedspread Banner

Incursions in the Knowledge Capital

People's Tower for Manchester

Tower prototype installed at Manchester Metropolitan University

The Thin Veneer of Democracy

No Michelangelos

A detail of the Michelangelo copy with caps and paintbrushes.

This Is Camp X-Ray

Self-Initiated Projects

Here are some of the artist-led projects we have initiated and delivered as a collective since 2002. They focus on our key areas of theoretical exploration:

New Urban Environment. We are interested in artist-led grassroots sustainability initiatives. New Urban Environmentalism builds in the real world from underused local resources, harnessing new networks of social solidarity created in (amongst other places) the online world.

Open Cities. Taking control of the city as a canvas for work that challenges enclosure, liberating urban space from neo-liberal control. Many of our projects contain an element of the outdoors, where we are particularly focused on engaging non-gallery going audiences by 'disclosing' underused space. We are interested in connecting the rural with the urban, turning streets into classrooms, providing free food and critically challenging 'public' identities.