>please feel free to forward this invite
>you are invited to the opening of
>The War Effort
>Holden Gallery
>Faculty of Art & Design
>Manchester Metropolitan University
>Cavendish Street
>Manchester M15 6BR
>
>Opening  Thursday 23 January 5 - 7 pm
>with a presentation by Bill Drummond
>
>This ad-hoc coalition of artists makes no claim to a fixed strategy or
>singular voice and offers no universal observations. Rather, the group has
>been brought together by the artist's shared conviction that in the fallout
>of September 11, the 'War Against Terrorism', the need for an alternative
>cultural reaction to war is acute. Rejecting the idea that art should be
>neutral, they engage from individual positions with the reality, rituals and
>symbols of what they see as a 'new barbarism'and question militarism as a
>failed response to social inequality.
>Among the participanting artists are lecturers from Hull School of Art and
>Design - Clare Charnley, the designer Andy Edwards, the photographers Casey
>Orr and 24449753, an ex-serviceman - alongside John Hyatta painter and Head
>of the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design at
>MMU. They are joined by the London-based sculptor, multimedia performer and
>radio DJ Tracey Sanders-Wood, the artist and writer on art and politics Bill
>Drummond, and Disinformation, a creative duo whose repertoire covers 'almost
>every conceivable artform'.
>