Emergency is Word of Warning’s annual platform for Live Art and contemporary performance — offering a sneak preview of new live work over a single day in Manchester every autumn and now resident at Contact.
Manchester’s 25th micro-marathon of the bizarre, the bold, and the beautiful takes over Contact on Saturday 27 September from Noon to 10pm
— with an Afternoon of installations, interventions, limited capacity works
— followed by an Evening full of short shows from 4pm
— including the return of special guests, Action Hero.
Artists
Action Hero · Alexis Maxwell · Burt Turdgirth & special guests · ClusterFlux Collective · Dongting Huang · Elana Binysh · Faye Yan · GOWD · Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton · Kris Canavan · Leon Clowes · Lisa Ford · Luca Federici · Luke McDonnell · Madeleina Kay · Miss Freda Wallace · Mole Wetherell & UoS Performance · n:u (melissandre varin) · Nathan Birkinshaw · Rachael Gooch · Rory Aaron & Markus Hetheier · Rosie Hart & Poppy Waxman · The Paula Davy · Tom Cassani
hÅb’s annual platform for Live Art and contemporary performance, Emergency offers a sneak preview of new live work over a single day in Manchester every autumn — this 25th edition will present twenty-four works from lunchtime till late throughout Contact’s building and its multiple spaces.
Probably England’s longest-running Live Art event, Emergency aims to be:
— a free to access public micro-festival and open submission platform;
— an opportunity for artists to meet, show, and peer review work;
— a selection event for a number of small Works Ahead commissions.
Emergency has taken place in numerous spots around Oxford Road. It was first held in the year 2000 at greenroom, an experimental art space which closed in 2011 and has been replaced by Gorilla. It’s also been held at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Castlefield Gallery, and Z-arts before finding a new home at Contact in 2020.
Emergency 23 is presented by Word of Warning and Contact; produced by hÅb; supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
