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All Things Equal Installation

The world premiere of a large-scale and immersive audiovisual installation by Urban Projections (Rebecca Smith) and Loraine James.

A warehouse ceiling with a metal beam in the middle of the shot, another off to the left. To the right on the wall is a projections of the All Things Equal logo. The room is lit up with a red glow.
Date
16 November 2022
Category
Past Projects

Our Manifesto for Gender Equality launched at a special event in Manchester on International Women's Day 2022.

Co-produced with Submerge, the night featured the world premiere of a large-scale and immersive audiovisual installation by Urban Projections (Rebecca Smith).

Accompanying the installation, we commissioned “genre-splicing genius of British electronic music” Loraine James and poet Bitez to create a custom soundtrack and spoken word respectively.

We also had DJ sets throughout the night from the likes of Girls Don't Sync, DJ Chaise, Shannen SP and Hur̃guf.

“The creation of the installation, and the process of creating it, represents a shift in equilibrium. The whole piece pivots around ideas of addressing a rebalance. I was really interested to explore these ideas of parity, and how we reach that point of change.”

Rebecca Smith (Urban Projections)

Meet the Manifesto Makers

In the lead-up to the event we recruited four creative minds to support the creation of the installation. From conceptualisation to the ins-and-outs of the technical design and install.

Louisa Parry is an early-career mixed media artist & arts producer, mostly working with textiles, ceramics and paint. She creates abstract work with a focus on texture, and is interested in the contrast of chaos & control: be it in the distinction between nature & the built environment in the outer world, or exploring concepts around mental health in our inner spaces.

Michelle Wren works in many forms and scales mostly from materials sourced from industrial waste. She builds sets and projection maps them, video edits, animates and experiments with AR. She runs a DIY TV channel Projectile Vomit TV where she experiments with blending digital and analogue media and techniques and she co-runs Dingle Community Print Workshop a screen-printing workshop for low/unwaged people.

Veronica Harradence uses her skills as an Intelligent Automation Developer to create generative art in her spare time. She is interested in the artistic exploration of code and how it can be reimagined to be more accessible, engaging and reflective.

Alexis Maxwell is an interdisciplinary storyteller and emerging artist based across the North West.Using a blend of text, tech and animation she explores her lived experience of sexuality, mental illness and racial injustice. Reaching across disciplines to discover ways of creating contemporary folklore and fairytale, with a keen interest in projection and its relationship to performance. Self-taught animator and long-time fan of all things spoken word, she draws from community-based practices to breathe life into auto-ethnographic poetry.

“Having this opportunity has encouraged me to be an independent VJ and projection mapper. I have my first solo gig in April and have been developing an idea with a local sound system. I wouldn’t be doing either of those things without the opportunity provided by Brighter Sound and the skills and confidence I have got from working with Urban Projections.”

  • In a dark space, various people are illuminated in rainbow colours from projections shining down from above. On the floor they project rows of circles rippling out and growing in size.

  • DJ collective Girls Don't Sync on the decks interacting with the crowd with hands in the air and pointing towards the audience who are dancing.

  • Someone looking up as projections shine down on their face in various colours including purple, blue, yellow and orange.

  • Crowds of people gathering within the Depot Mayfield for our Manifesto Launch. The dark room is illuminated by red and yellow lighting cast on the walls and pillars.

  • DJ Shannen SP on the decks. To the left is a Brighter Sound lightbox in the shape of our old logo placed on top of a flight case.

  • DJ collective Girls Don't Sync behind the decks. One is busy on the decks. Another is pointing to the crowd beyond who aren't in the shot. Another is looking and pointing into the camera.

  • A crowd of people dancing and watching DJ collective Girls Don't Sync.

  • Loraine James stood underneath projections shining down from the ceiling. She has her hands in her coat pockets and is looking off to her right. On the floor around her are projections of disjointed pixels in various colours.

  • In a dark space, various people are illuminated in dots of colour from projections shining down from above. The dots of light cover the people and the floor around them.

  • DJ Chaise with one hand in the air, the other adjusting a knob on the decks. The Brighter Sound lightbox is encroaching on the left hand side slightly blurred.

Be part of the change

The Manifesto is available to read or listen to now.

And the work doesn’t stop here. If you want to be part of the change please sign our open letter to the Government.

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