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This is Camp X-ray exhibition

UHC Collective | 29.09.2003 16:45 | Anti-militarism

Don't cross the line
New North West Exhibition explores Imperialism, Internment and Immigration

Don't cross the line

New North West Exhibition explores Imperialism, Internment and Immigration

Working Internment Camp set to highlight human rights abuses

Challenging new work by three artists will hit Manchester's streets in October. The exhibition, entitled Don't Cross the Line, includes site specific sculpture, photography and a large scale installation. The work aims to explore what it means to be displaced, removed or incarcerated at the beginning of this millennium.

Helen Knowles' 'Growth Investment' features plant-paper casts of botanical instruments from a derelict botany lab and will be sited in the banking hall of HSBC on King Street. The artwork highlights the international movement of plants as a highly valued commodity from the colonial era until the present day.

Maggie Lambert's 'Asylum Seekers' challenges our notions of the word 'alien' through her vibrant photographs of spacemen and refugees. The images, to be found on Gloucester Street, recall the complex history of immigration and change which characterises the old 'little Ireland' area of Manchester.

Jai Redman's functioning internment camp, This Is Camp X-Ray, challenges public apathy over the prisoners at the US Army's Guantanamo Bay site and investigates experiences of incarceration and sensory deprivation.

The exhibition is co-curated by Helen Knowles and Jai Redman.

Further details of the exhibition can be obtained from Sarah Irving on 0161 238 8523 or  sarah@uhc-collective.org.uk


Notes for editors

1) Helen Knowles is a practising artist working from the Suite studio in Salford. She was artist-in-residence at Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum from 1999-2001 and curator of 'Radio Halo.' She also exhibited this year at Gallery Oldham in the touring exhibition 'Wild flowers: their art and science.'

2) Maggie Lambert works in London and has recently completed a series of images of Kurdish refugees for the Refugee Council. Much of her work deals with issues of state control.

3) Jai Redman is a practising artist working in Manchester and a member of the UHC political art collective. His work will soon be featured in the 'Look to this Day' exhibition of Comme Ca art prize nominees at Castlefield Gallery. With Helen Knowles he also co-curated the AgiTate political art exhibition in Manchester last year.

4) Don't Cross the Line is also aimed at increasing community involvement in the arts through interaction between artists, those working with them and the communities in which the work will be sited. The different sites used by the artists expose the works to the gaze of the non-gallery-going public and the ethnically and experientially diverse population of Manchester.

5) The real Camp X-Ray (now rebuilt and re-christened Camp Delta) is the internment camp at Guantanamo Bay used by the US Army to imprison those it deems 'enemy combatants.' These include British nationals and children. All are held without charge and have been denied access to their families or legal representation. Human rights organisations such as Amnesty International have expressed considerable concern at the conditions in the camp, which have provoked high rates of attempted suicide amongst the internees.

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inspiring

14.10.2003 22:08

excellent stuff folks..a great way to bring it home what is going on. hope it has the same impact as if a concentration camp had been set up in the middle of manchester in 1940

paulo


props

21.10.2003 14:22

mad props to the UHC collective... I was riding on the 86 bus every day and watching the camp be constructed over the course of a week or so, kept wondering what it was... so one day I got off the bus at that empty lot by the ASDA to see what it was about: the attention to detail is brilliant, the DoD signs, the concertina wire, the Stars'n'Stripes on the guard tower, the whole thing... but what really got me was the "don't cross the line" feel of the whole thing, I figured if I got off the bus and walked up to the perimeter fence, some activist would spot me and come over to give me a spiel on "this is why Camp X-Ray is a violation of so-and-so's human rights, etc." which of course I'm aware of, but I was surprised to receive an even more visceral impression of the reality of an internment camp by the lack of communication across the fences and "no trespassing" signs-- just some guy in fatigues carrying an M-16 glancing my way... been on a few military bases in the States, and I recognized that feeling that day I got off the bus in Hulme... even better when I was on the bus with some local kids at night, and I pointed it out to them as we passed by and the searchlights were on and the guards were dramatically sillouhetted...

stash


HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN...?

26.10.2003 12:56

EVERYONE THAT SUPPORTED AND/OR CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THIS STRUCTURE NEEDS TO STOP AND LOOK DOWN...THATS RIGHT, YOU ARE STANDING ON AMERICAN SOIL...DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU CAN DO THAT? DO YOU VALUE YOUR FREEDOMS? YOU CAN DO THESE THINGS BECAUSE THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR THE COUNTRY THEY LOVE AND BELIEVE IN! YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY, AMERICANS!!!! HOW DARE YOU MOCK THE DEDICATION TO OUR NATIONS SECURITY AND OUR EVERDAY SACRIFICES WITH THIS DAILY REMINDER OF THE HARDSHIPS " WE " AS SOLDIERS FACED DAY IN AND DAY OUT IN THESE PLACES OF WAR AND TERRORISM. YOU ALL SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. I WILL ALWAYS STAND TALL AND PROUD OF MY COUNTRY AND SUPPORT WHAT OUR MILITARY DOES TO ENSURE YOUR OWN SECURITY, AND YOU SHOULD TOO. THIS PROJECT IS PITIFUL AND IS NO WHERE NEAR REALISTIC OR CAN EVEN COMPARE TO THE PRICES MANY SOLDIERS HAVE PAYED OR WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH....OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE/ARE THE REAL PRISONERS. RETHINK YOUR CITIZENSHIP AND PRAY FOR THE REAL AMERICAN HEROES THAT WE CAN THANK FOR OUR LIVES AND FREEDOM, BECAUSE AS WEVE ALL HEARD BEFORE... "FREEDOM ISNT FREE"!
...HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN...?

US SOLDIER


US out

26.10.2003 19:09

Er, no we bloody well aren't standing on US soil!

Unless Britain has secretly become part of the US at some point... in which case it's about time for a second declaration of independence, but this time the other way around!

Z


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