Hazard
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Hazard08 – Saturday 12 July 2008 – Manchester City Centre produced by hÅb and greenroom in collaboration with the artists.
A micro-festival of incidental intervention and sited performance, with a hint of mischief! Chance encounters, random occurrences and risky ventures around and about the city centre. Cheeky, thought-provoking + sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity…
Hazard07 was a pilot event, produced on very limited resources and thanks to the goodwill and collaboration of a vast number of people. It saw 17 pieces of new original work across 2 days involving 32 artists, 23 participating young people and conservatively calculated audiences of 12000.
Participating artists were: Action Hero, Angel Club North, The Bucket Company, Caution Horses, CHIRP, Richard DeDomenici, DIRECT ACTion, Doldrum Theatre, Shahram Entekhabi, Escape Theatre, The Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company, Jamie Fletcher/Ellie Harrison, MANDY ROMERO, Shabnam Shabazi, the vacuum cleaner.
Work presented ranged from wrapping a public space in 2.5 kms of Hazard tape, to shop window burlesque, dry-wipe graffiti to mass yawning. For a glimpse of what went on, have a look at the video below
Largely playful and often mischievous, the artists took over the city centre, bringing Market Street to a halt on several occasions and with swathes of yellow and black tape making their mark on the entire city centre.