- Venue
- CUBE
- Starts
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
- Address
- 113-115 Portland Street Manchester M1 6DW
- Location
- North West England
The 2009 exhibition at Cube is the culmination of three years of activities by Futuresonic in Manchester, Singapore, Lancaster and Berlin which commenced in 2006. The festival's perennial themes of society, technology and the city, will form together in an exhibition featuring thirty international artists and ten world premiers -over three days- with the exhibition extending till the 23rd May. Artists have addressed environmental sustainability in ways both forceful and irreverent. Eva Meyer-Keller re-enacts catastrophic weather scenarios using household objects in ‘Handmade,’ Kim Abeles' exhibits commemorative plates with images of U.S. presidents, created by exposing the plates to an amount of smog proportional to their environmental records. Ackroyd and Harvey are installing 250 oak saplings grown from artist Joseph Beuys' acorns, they revisit his notion of social sculpture.Futuresonic have devised large-scale, participatory mass observation projects on climate and biodiversity in collaboration with the Met Office and Natural History Museum, meanwhile Jon Cohrs has created an art device for prospecting for oil in the city centre by Jon Cohrs, and Amy Balkin co-ordinates a public recital of the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). See the website for details of the artists and events.
