Do we live in a double city? Rick Dargavel’s workshop explores the forgotten side of the city of Manchester – its alleyways and backstreets. Through photography film and sketches the group are documenting the territory of the city’s ‘dispossessed’ and analysing its role in the life and vitality of the city. What programmes exist in these run down streets and how long can they continue to exist as buildings get bigger and the alleyways become edited out of the city?
Participants have begun to capture the ambience of the areas they explore. Messages and graffiti create an urban narrative, while discarded objects leave clues of passing drunks or the fag breaks of the kitchen hands.
The programme will continue to develop as the group further explore the programmes which exist or could exist in the alleyways of Manchester and begin to make interventions as they find a physical space for them.
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