Kennedy, R., Booth, P., Heys, T., Turner, M., 2014.
Pop-Up Republics, part of Asia Triennial Manchester 2014.
| Output Type: | Exhibition |
| Venue: | Imperial War Museum North |
| Dates: | 27/9/2014 - 23/11/2024 |
| Number of Works: | 4 |
Dark Border Developments (DbD) present Pop-Up Republics.
This off-site project is located in four shipping containers in the car park of IWM North as well as in the boats that carry the audience down the River Irwell to the exhibition. Each invited artist will work in collaboration with a curator to produce a portable micro-nation that can exist in the most
globally consistent unit of space - the shipping container. The micronation builders consist of
- anti-cool (Japan) + Paul Booth (UK); Chen Chieh-jen +
Ming Turner (Taiwan); Daksha Patel + Beccy Kennedy (UK); and Siddarth Ramakrishnan (USA) + Toby Heys (UK) + Stefani Bardin (USA) as 'Cotard Syndicate'.
Pop-up Republics, through its exploration of identity and
borders, raises issues of identity struggles, the limitations of belonging and the physical/metaphorical impositions of boundary and nation in a contemporary globalised world
- Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 programme, 2014, https://www.craftanddesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ATM_2014_Guide.pdf, page 9.