about manchester....urban palimpcests....the untitled gallery.......

joy division...........



august in the uk.....im collecting images...postcards etc re manchester...which relate to my intervention @vinyl exchange in oldham street as part of the manchester free arts festival which opens on october the first...the title of which is """"urban palimpcest""""".......i am interested in layers.....fly posted walls...street art......sounds of the city.....i have been visiting the city for some 50 years.......the northern quarter was a textile area...with a lyons coffee shop in stevenson square....you could drive down market street.......the free trade hall. ....the clubs in the 60s...the twisted wheel....then the hacienda of the 80s.....hume.......music has always been important...urban regeneration....the list goes on....memories...even urbis has gone........have a look @ this new gallery....and exhibition.......

Roxana Allison..........Becoming a Memory

http://www.untitledgallerymanchester.com/exhibitions/becomingamemory.htm

here are few recent photos of remembered places........

this appeals to my sense of humour....since this was taken all the graffiti in the northern has been hoovered away........the paint may have obliterated it but this walls history is in my head..........long live street poetry....

all obliterated....look carefully........the official obliterator missed a bit........

urbis....gone ....removed by an even bigger brush.......opened to great razz a ma tazz....up in the elevator...into a room filled with images and sounds of the city....then the doors opened and you entered the gallery......a space dedicated to the urban environment....what went wrong.....




people are the city...characters like colin jellicoe...seen here with myself...a double portrait....in his long survived gallery in portland street...colin has watched trends come and go.....he still goes on....

sinclairs was moved in the 60s on wheels to its present site...there was a philatelists in the same building.....true.......moved lock stock and barrels on wheels.......





have look at this video...,.time lapse.. manchester........