To celebrate International Women’s Day, Instigate Arts would like to share this video of our Wonder Women launch last week at Manchester Art Gallery. We feel strongly that not only is it unbelievably important to celebrate the successes, achievements and wonderful things that women around the world do every minute of every day, but also to highlight how much more we all need to do to bring about gender equality in our time. To quote Leymah Gbowee “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry”, and there was nothing polite about any of the artists involved with our launch last week. Their…
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Instigate Arts Curates ‘Making The Strange Familiar’ at Manchester Art Gallery 2nd March 2017 to launch Wonder Women
Launching the 2017 festival, Instigate Arts takes over Manchester Art Gallery for a special one-night-only event called Making The Strange Familiar inspired by the exhibition Strange and Familiar, a portrait of modern Britain as seen through the lens of international photographers and curated by the documentary photographer Martin Parr. This is a one-of-a-kind evening, dedicated to making the invisible visible. The gallery spaces will be handed over to experimental and unsung artists, musicians and performers who will create bold, live-art events in response to the images and what they say about the social, cultural and political identity of women in…
Identity Live at Home – Event Film, Artist Spotlight Footage and Photos.
Completing our curatorial residency at HOME, on the 8th October 2016 6-9pm, we at Instigate Arts took over the main gallery again in HOMEmcr for ‘Identity’ to explore the anxiety between the hand we are dealt in life and and how we let this define us. How does this feed into our fragile sense of self; fuel our fury and flavour the way we fashion ourselves. We explored how our fears and subsequent ambitions form the building blocks upon which we base our fractured identity, and the fraught outward image we so fervently project? What forms our sense of identity, and what do…
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