Home gallery in manchester

HOME is a centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film in Manchester that opened on 24 April 2015. as part of the First Street development. HOME was formed by the merger of two Manchester-based arts organisations, Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company.


HOME will commission, produce and present a programme of contemporary theatre, film, and visual art. The programme will feature new commissions, international collaborations, off-site and interdisciplinary productions, with an emphasis on innovative visual storytelling and cross-art form collaboration.

The exhibition space in the building that I visited was quiet enclosed and dark and was very intreeging. It had a very sci Fi feel to it with binary codes on the walls lit up and mathematical equations and videos and displays of robots and bright lights. 

One piece that was being displayed here that was very beautiful was the creator which consisted of 2 pieces in 2 separate rooms. One room was titled 1954 and the other 2154 with one room being future and the other being the past. In the 2154 room superstitious robots are
displayed consulting tarot cards as they contemplate the future and in the 1954 room it shows these machines traveling back in time in search for Allan Turing father of the computer age who sewed the seeds for artificial intelligence. The film focused and is based on the dream dairies and conversations Turing had with his physiotherapist in time leading towards the last moments of his life.

The colours and music combined with the subject content in the future room were beautiful and completely mesmerising and had a meditation all feel to it as well as other worldly and bazaar and the combination of the futuristic robots used superticious tarot cards was an intriguing aspect.

Screen shots from this animation:

Visual representation of one of the carrot cards:

 The robots placing the carrot cards down to see what they have to tell:

 

Although when i visited this gallery i did not stay long i will defiantly visit here again as the work was very intriguing and there was more of HOME that i have not yet seen that i would be interested to go back to view.