Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Richard Chadwick
Searching For Mysteries Without Any Clues
"Memories tie us to that place ....it's personal , not interesting to anyone else , but after all that's what gives a neighbourhood its character " Michel de Certeau
Four buildings in the centre of Manchester, four buildings that i know well having worked as a designer on each of them . Four buildings that become the Houses of the Collectors as we imagine and construct alternative pasts for them , alternative futures , alternative memories . Thus 29/31 Oldham Street becomes The House of the Music Lover , 15 Richmond Street becomes the house of the Book Lover , 2 Canal Street becomes The house of the Art Lover , 3 Canal Street becomes The House of the Dominatrix.............secrecy and guilt , closed doors , concealment behind the blank anonymity of a facade......
"It is curious to note to what extent memory is unfaithful , even for the most important periods of one's life . It is this, indeed, that explains the delightful fantasy of history " Marcel Duchamp
