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Swim |
Wish
You Were Here |
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installation
by Simon Austin, Jex, Alison Kershaw and children from the
local area |
An
installation including children's ideas about swimming, Victoria
Baths and what they have discovered in the building during SWIM.
The installation uses discarded and out of style TV sets; artefacts
from the more recent historical era of the life of the Victoria
Baths. During the life span of these TVs (70s, 80s, 90s) these
children and their parents have lived, as fashions and styles
have changed.
The need for children to learn to swim has not changed, and
this is something that The Friends of Victoria Baths very much
wanted the artists to explore. In a way, these childrens voices
could be from any era as they describe the universal experience
of swimming. The pool is strangely transformed by the echo of
voices of children once again.
This work has been developed with children from Manchester
SPLASH swimming club, Plymouth Grove School, Stanley Grove
and Gorton Mount Primary schools during the exhibition itself.
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1906 |
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A
short film by Hafsah Naib (FUNKAARH) with Medlock Primary
School.
1906 is a date
shared by Victoria Baths and Medlock Primary School. Medlock
have begun their Creative Partnerships programme by working
with Hafsah and Cornerhouse to develop a film which gives
voice to the children's understanding of their own identity
by looking at their environment and questioning how they represent
their own ideas in moving images and sound.
Their work will continued this term by exploring the area
around the school in a journey between the school and the
baths, creating a " soundscape" with Hafsah, during
the exhibition. |
Once
I was |
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Children
at Medlock Primary School made a sound track of their explorations
on route between their school, The Whitworth Art Gallery and
Victoria Baths with artist Hafsah Naib - FUNKAARH.
The soundtrack
reflects the children's own experience of their locality -
their environment through their eyes. They made a journey
on foot between 3 well known local buildings - including the
school itself, the Whitworth Art Gallery and The Victoria
Baths. Along the way they gathered words; reading the city
with sound.
you can join
the children in their world whilst journeying through their
landscape …..
Experience the
heritage of the future with children as they look back in
time from today, discover their world in their words!
The soundscape "Once I Was" is available on CD from
Victoria Baths Trust |
Pool
Arts FANZINE |
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During
the Swim exhibition and open days,Pool Arts worked with visitors
to the baths to create a fanzine! |
Layers
- creative partnerships programme |
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the SWIM exhibition the children of Medlock School developed
a performance with The Whitworth Art Gallery and artists Fran
Lever and Shaun Bradley looking at the idea of "memories
trapped in images". In particular they explored a story
of one of the stained glass "sportsmen" (at the front
of the building) who was drawn from a local boy who was later
killed in WW1, leaving behind his sweetheart and whose story
was told to the Victoria Baths by one of her relatives only
this year. |
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