Get Together and Get Things Done (Manchester Art Gallery, 2019) was part of the city-wide bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre, co-ordinated by Manchester Histories. It positioned the art gallery as a potential commons and space for collective action. The exhibition was an opportunity to develop and test approaches including free, bookable spaces for non-profit groups and a crowd-sourced approach to exhibition labels.
We commissioned Ellie Harrison to make Bus Regulation: The Musical, a performance about the history of public transport provision in Greater Manchester from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!
Ellie used her commission to raise awareness of the campaign to re-regulate Manchester’s buses. There’s lots more detail, images and a video of the performance on Ellie’s website.
Photos by Michael Pollard
Artists
Atelier Populaire (The People’s Workshop) | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | Walter Bayes | Black Audio Film Collective (John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson, Trevor Mathis) | Sonia Boyce | Christina Broom | Edward Burra | Sheba Chhachhi | George Cruikshank | Isaac Cruikshank | Charles Cundall | Thomas Cantrell Dugdale | Georg Eisler | Sylvia Gosse | Francisco Goya Y Lucientes | William Powell Frith | Rokni Haerizadeh | Louis Haghe | Keeley Halswelle | Ellie Harrison | Benjamin Robert Haydon | William Hogarth | William Holman Hunt | Thomas Howell Jones | Jerzy Janiszewski | William Edward Kilburn | Käthe Kollwitz | Kunstruct | Wyndham Lewis | Raymond Mason | J Lewis Marks | Lachlan McLachlan / Frederic James Shields / Arthur Hughes | Laurence Stephen Lowry | Members of the International Brigades | Tentative Collective | Tony Minnion | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson | Craig Oldham–The Office Of Craig Oldham | Joseph Parry | Raissa Page | Glyn Warren Philpot | Lucien Pissarro | Jean-Louis Prieur | Oliver Ressler | Faith Ringgold | Selim Rothwell | Larissa Sansour | Frederick Sargent/H L Saunders | Vladimir Ossipovitch Sherwood | Henry Singleton | John Slack | Humphrey Spender | Boris Taslitzky | Feliks Topolski | Jakub Valentik | Andy Warhol | Harold Sandys Williamson | Llewellyn Xavier | Carey Young | Johan Zoffany