Friday, 6 August 2010

Artist's Newsletter June 2010 - Snapshot

Performance company Quarantine's 'The Soldier's Song' (Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, to 4 July) is a powerful video installation made with, and about, currently serving soldiers. Visitors are invited to sing a duet with the soldiers in a karaoke booth, quietly challenging our preconceptions and asking us to consider our connection with an individual who might fight in our name. Exchange is crucial for POST, a collective of seven female artists. For riPOSTe (Bluecoat, Liverpool, to 20 June) the group are exhibiting with seven female artists from Linz, Austria. Place, mortality and identity are just some of the themes infusing this powerful collaboration.

www.manchestergalleries.org

www.POSTliverpool.com