It’s a year since I started this blog and I’m finishing it with images from my final piece for Manchester Central Library. The project is now fully documented at: www.nicoladale.com/it-stares-us-down The publication is available to read here: In Conversation with […]
Saccades, Reading Room, Manchester Central Library, 18 March 2017 Performers: Allan, David, Clare, Mark, Marlene, Patti Photos: Steve Iles
CIRCULAR READING 10am – 4pm 25th March 2017 Reading Room, Manchester Central Library “It is not one thought but all your thoughts” Supported by ACE, Manchester City Council, HOME and a-n
Saturday 13th March 2017 Reading Room, Manchester Central Library Saccades (n): Rapid intermittent eye movements made as attention switches from one point to another. A group performance. Drop in any time between 2-3pm. Supported by Arts Council England, Manchester City […]
The Act of Reading Saturday 11th March 2017, Manchester Central Library Performance times: 11.30 – 12.30 The Act of Reading I Shakespeare Hall 13.30 – 14.30 The Act of Reading II […]
LS Lowry, The Reference Library (now Manchester Central Library), undated
“…how do you move around in infinity without getting lost? The structuring of the space can be so compelling and confusing as to utterly absorb and neutralize the narrator and to exhaust the reader…” The End of Books, Robert Coover, […]
“These are dual compunctions: distance ourselves from the messy bits of life on the one hand, transcend the finality of death on the other” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenburg Elegies
Manchester was the first local authority to provide a public lending library after the passing of the Public Libraries Act in 1850