Quarantine: Telescope
Telescope is a brand new work by internationally renowned artist-group Quarantine – a live exhibition of borrowed belongings, and their owners’ thoughts about where they belong.
Do different generations value things differently? Young people on the cusp of adulthood and older people who’ve lived a life have been invited to lend us something to display at Manchester Museum – maybe something they’d be devastated to lose, something they’d like to get rid of, something they found and kept…
Over four days, drop in to see this evolving exhibition, animated by performer-hosts, who ask the lenders a series of questions as starting points for conversations that are by turns complex, funny, familiar, extraordinary – and profoundly human.
It’s an insight into what we hold on to; what we value and why, both individually and as a society.
‘Quarantine is a remarkable theatre company that has created a body of beautiful, fragile and authentic work, which finds the extraordinary in the ordinary lives of real people.’ Guardian
Related event
On Saturday 11 October, Quarantine are hosting Art of Assembly at Contact, a panel discussion about intergenerational assembly.
About
Quarantine is a group of people working together as artists and producers. Based in Manchester since 1998 and working all over the world, Quarantine make projects with all kinds of people to talk about everyday life and how we relate to one another. Find out more at qtine.com
Telescope is one strand of The Questions, a three-part project taking place in 2025 in Manchester and Chemnitz, Germany twin cities since 1983.
The Questions is part of the programme for Chemnitz 2025: European Capital of Culture.
In collaboration with ASA-FF
Supported by the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Free State of Saxony and the City of Chemnitz
In cooperation with Allianz Foundation
Supported by Cultural Bridge and Manchester City Council