HAZARD MMX
17 July 12-5pm Free
Manchester City Centre
One man, a forest of placards and the roar of the crowd… a woman crushed by a celestial object… a solo quest to make over the image of banking… six wheelchair users touching down on the moon in Manchester… one hundred Dorothys celebrating Judy.
HAZARD Manchester’s micro-festival of sited performance and intervention unleashes its third wave of bizarre behaviour onto the city on 17 July. Outbreaks of cheeky, thought-provoking and sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity take live art and contemporary performance into the public domain.
The two previous outings of Hazard have seen the bold and the beautiful, eccentric and extreme crop-up in every possible location: Cathedral Gardens swaddled in Hazard Tape, giant dancing traffic cones, impossible circumnavigations of the city by canoe and dry-wipe graffiti have all featured. At times unavoidable, at times subliminal, a flash of yellow and black might be the only clue that the city is one big performance.
For HAZARD MMX, over twenty pieces of work will take to the streets, with participating artists to include:
Alex Bradley, Andy&Gaz&Jon, Astrid Breel, Clare Charnley, Doldrum Theatre, Eggs Collective, Fin de Siecle, Freezechester, Hannah Wiles, Hen’s Teeth Theatre, James Topple, Jordan McKenzie, Martin Hamblen, Natalie Preece, Noise Club, Out Of Hand Theater, Peader Kirk, Rachael Nutter, Scratch ‘n Sniff Cinema, The Muffia, Vickie Fear
>From pervasive gaming to one-on-one performance; a phone-based guided tour to take-away artworks, HAZARD MMX aims to provoke and amuse, involve and engage, demonstrating to the city the playful side of contemporary art.
Get involved:
Larkin’ About’s micro-festival within a micro-festival, brings pervasive gaming to Manchester Arndale Centre. Turn up at Hallé Square from 12pm to join the games.
Find your inner Dorothy:
Eggs Collective is calling for participants to join them on a march through the city from the Emerald City to Canal Street. Contact them at eggs_collective@hotmail.com.
HAZARD MMX is looking for ‘placardeers’ to participate in a mobile intervention from 11-16 July, and for stewards to help spread the word on the day, expenses paid – contact hazard@habarts.org
To keep up to date with information and the inside knowledge on HAZARD, visit: www.hazardmcr.org or follow @hazardmcr