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The locations we are going to propose to the council for our final exhibition are:
The Mackie Mayor Building
Being the old meat market, this building would have been bustling with people buying and selling and we feel it is such a shame it is sitting empty and miserable. It backs onto a main road, the windows are clouded over and boarded up. We would like to breathe some life back into it by displaying FACES over them, in the windows and at lots of different levels to get people interacting with the building again as well as the faces they may or may not have already seen.
Solway Exhibition Space (above Fred Aldous)
We like the location of this building as it’s in such a creative hot spot in the Northern Quarter. There is a lot of scope for playing with imagery with the different size and shapes of windows here.
The former Big Issue Office top corner of Oldham Street – hopefully?
Projection
Sitting on the corner of a busy junction, we think this would be a great space to have a projection of the footage from our event. Having moving visual imagery as part of our series of installations would help convey the atmosphere and feeling of the event and explain to the onlooker what we were trying to achieve and why there are so many faces looking down at them from windows and boards around the Northern Quarter!
The United Building (Old Cinema on Oldham Street) and facing window (above the £5 charity shop)
This has 5 large windows, separated into small square panes. Our plan is to fill each window pane with a face, creating mural of Manchester’s faces to look down at Manchester’s faces. The window opposite this building is the top floor of a recording studio and is of the same aesthetic. We would really like to have corresponding imagery here to create a cross road link



