The Hacienda

Linking intial ideas of the Industrial Revolution and how people were attracted to the prospect of getting work in the city to the Manchester Music scene. The city became a magnet for people wanting to be part of the marginal activity that made Manchester seem so myserious and exciting. A good example of this is the Hacineda. From recently reading The Hacineda how not to run a club, it is eye- opening the types of activity taking place, the violence and strong sense of rebelling from the public.

Dave Haslam

From originally being inspired from Dave Haslams lecture several weeks ago an looking back on some of the key parts he mentioned about Manchester's fragmented music scene and the importance of marginal activity. 

Finding hiden little spaces...

http://www.prideofmanchester.com/music/hacienda.htm

Sketchbook collection drawings and images

Some images from my unit x sketchbook, experimenting with arrangements of my fndings from around hotspur.

Delicate mark making, drawing from an arrangement of broken pieces of glass and some rusted nails.

Hidden railway system manchester

Hidden places in manchester

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/3587523711/

Slide collection

So many interesting points mentioned, about slides in general but also about the construction and deconstruction of sites around the Manchester. I particularly liked the story reasoning behind the blackening of the buildings, due to the smoke from the mills and factory chimneys, it reminded me of a Corneila Parker piece with the layers of papers scorched around the edges uncovering the layers underneath. Some of the Lantern slides show the changes in colours of the buildings.

Collections of findings around Hotspur

The idea of neglected parts of things from reading about the cotton threads exhibition at the whitworth.

Museums encourage telling us about  hidden or neglected parts of their collections, and to confront the past with the present. 

Places where memory is constructed..

Small neglected old parts of things, thinking about the placement and displacement of objects.

Unit X

Interrogating Manchester.

Reflecting on the past week, analysing Manchester as a city and thinking about its history. Thinking about certain events and how they affected the city, such as the Industrial Revolution and how more and more people were moving towards the cities as that was where they would find work, leaving their county-livings behind. People having to realise that this was the way forward and many did rebel against the changes, many cottage weavers and spinners destroying the machinery in the mills that were taking away their livelihoods..