Hazard08

ShahramEntekhabi/ Martina Schöne-Radunski: CAUTION 2

Two people, two suitcases and 5km of Hazard tape…

Doldrum Theatre: New Format 12-5pm

Remember when a wall was a castle, a bench was a ship and a stick was just about anything you needed it to be? This is more than a city – it’s a playground, sometimes we can forget that. We're reclaiming it bit by bit and we're starting with Cathedral Gardens home to the weird, the wonderful, the dressed up, the dressed down, the heroes, the villains and the players of games. Once you know the rules anyone can play.

Join in… You're 'it'.

what’sthebigmistry: Agent 

Take a path through a collage of images from your imagination, your dreams or a lost memory: a Wonderland where control is relinquished for a rose-tinted adventure through the city on the path to a secret destination.  Once you’ve started you won’t step back. Marvel at the characters you meet and the displaced fragments they share.

Accidental Collective: BIKINI State 

BIKINI State is the MoD system indicating the level of non-specific forms of terrorist activity. Drawing on images of fear embedded in the nation's consciousness, this darkly humorous series of vignettes and exaggerated personas will be unleashed in a collective catharsis. BIKINI State intends to puncture your experience of the everyday, and challenge your assumptions and fears. BIKINI State is currently set on 'Black Special'. 'UK Threat Level' is 'Severe'.

Artificial Light: Where is Cannon Street?

The Headturners are lost! Can you help them in their never ending search for Cannon Street? Will they ever head in the right direction?  Exploring changes affecting the urban environment as a result of redevelopment: Have places been erased from memory? Is Capitalism eating away at the urban environment? 

Created with writer Richard Barrett

Charles Quick New Infrastructure     

During the course of a few hours a workman will install an independent infrastructure throughout St Ann’s Square and adjoining streets. 50 flashing LED lights just above head height to subtly intervene into the urban environment while drawing our attention to the multi-faceted structures, which exist within it.

PLaY: part 1, odd shoes...  

Created + performed  by Jamie Fletcher + Dick Bonham, with Sophia di Martino.

A group of business men and women who really don’t want to get their feet dirty. 

Selling ‘play’ to passers-by, giving motivational speeches and telling stories about shoes, they use their briefcases like stepping stones to travel about. A journey. A performance. An attempt to find the perfect pair of shoes to wear. 

The Bucket Company: Window Undressers

In the Borough of Chelsea it is illegal for a boy under 11 to see a mannequin unclothed!  

Exploring the power of the headless/soul-less anatomically ‘perfect’ mannequin, real women take their place in a mannequin rebellion, shedding garments in a simple, non-erotic undressing infused with B-movie charm and Hollywood glamour.

Chris Fitzsimmons: Feel the Benefit

The Pink Panther is on hand to dole out advice on disability and tax benefits.... big stats, big slogans, small camp man!

Artificial Light Applause 

Rounding off proceedings with a rousing show of hands.

Ann Rapstoff Good Housekeeping 

As self-nominated custodian of health and safety for Hazard, the artist will be on site to risk assess the dangers inherent in life, particularly ‘acts of god’. The public are invited to participate in a risk assessment and to join her in waiting to see what dangers might occur. 

Adela Jones/Will Pollard: Hooked  

A Trout and a Fisherman find unusual common ground in the water features of Manchester. A relationship based on competition and one-upmanship turns to understanding, tenderness and love. As the sun sets and the flies hatch, Trout and Fisherman walk hand in fin into the evening.

Kate Wiggs: Trace  

Leaving evidence of my journey around the Northern Quarter: tape outlines and occasional notes left reflecting on experiences.  An interactive piece,  directed by the events of the day,  inviting the public to inscribe their outlines onto the landscape.

Martin Hamblen Un sou pour vos pensées 

Un sou ..(A penny for your thoughts) is an intervention in public space which explores the notion of what art means outside the white cube. Un sou.... aims to intrigue and provoke.

The Muffia Under Construction 

‘Cheer up darling it might never happen’

‘Give us a smile’

Giving men the opportunity not to miss out on what women experience, we are becoming builders for the day…A  reaction, and most importantly, a chance for us to ogle…

The Institute: The Hazardous Family 

Come and see the Hazardous Family at work, enjoying a family picnic, reading Engels and giving out pamphlets  – a site-specific activist performance inside the yellow and black taped area of Parsonage Gardens, a stone’s throw from Engels’ s former office.

Varsity of Manoeuvres:Test the Water

The first canoeists for many years to enter the  waters of Rochdale and Ashton Canal.  Armed with handcuff keys from British Waterways to open the 18 locks that lie between them and their destination, that lie between the canals and the people.

VoM create physical manoeuvres that seek to cut through social and spatial fabrics.

Friends of Ardwick Station

Less than one person per day uses Ardwick Station!  The Friends come together on this lonely platform surrounded by tracks, to try to communicate with the thousands who pass but never stop.  (The intrepid may wish to join them, by foot or car -  no trains stop on Saturday!)