Conference
Symposium: Transcultural Landscapes of Art and Ecology
03 Jul 2015
The Whitworth
Manchester, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Micro Micro Revolution
3 Jul 2015 – 6 Sep 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Market Buildings
- 13 Thomas Street
- Manchester
England - M4 1EU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus station is Shudehill Exchange, and Piccadilly Gardens is also a 5 minute walk away.
- The nearest tram station is Shudehill.
- Manchester Victoria is a 5 minute walk from the venue. Manchester Piccadilly is a 10 minute walk.
Event map
Micro Micro Revolution aims to explore the power of art as a vehicle to address social change in Taiwan through three socially-engaged art projects: “A Cultural Action at the Plum Tree Creek”, “Plant-Matter Needed” and “500 Lemon Trees”.
About
These ongoing process-based, participative projects use art as a vehicle for addressing environmental issues, as a form of resistance, and as a platform for exchange.
A Cultural Action at the Plum Tree Creek
Artists: Wu Mali & Bamboo Curtain Studio
The Plum Tree Creek is located in the margin [SF1] of the Taipei basin and the mouth of the Danshui River in Taiwan. The water in this area is heavily polluted and in some places has been diverted, drained or covered. This project brings together communities that exist along its banks and who rely upon the river as a resource, to reconnect with it, to reclaim ownership of it and to care for it.
Plant-Matter Needed: The Material World of The Riverbank Amis Tribe 2015
Artists: Hsu Su-chen and Lu Chien-ming
In 2009 the Sa’owac Village located in the Dahan Creek faced risk of demolition due to a new urban development plan for a riverside cycling route. Artists Hsu Su-chen and Lu Chien-ming worked in collaboration with the local community in the subsequent period of protest and reconstruction. The exhibition will explore the project through videos, texts and objects presented within a reconstruction of one the Sa’owac Village dwellings.
500 Lemon Trees
Artist: Huang Po-chih
Five Hundred Lemon Trees called for 500 participants to each donate 500 Taiwanese Dollars to buy a wine label. The sale of each label funded the planting of a lemon tree in fallow farmland in north Taiwan that has been neglected for twenty years. Two years later participants received a bottle of Limoncello and were invited to stick the wine label on the bottle themselves. CFCCA will be home to an orchard of lemon trees where audiences will be able to witness ongoing art-enterprise in action.
