manu

tactical fiction project. www.function-creep.com coming soon!

An investigation into the human desire to control weather events

book available at Amazon Live art installation and collaborative reading project, based on a text about censorship in Iran... [VIDEO mp4]

handheld 3D cinema about the hyper-regulation of public space by Manu Luksch

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NL) from 14. Nov 08 : This is the story of a woman who does everything by the booklet... A NEW AND EXCITING EXPERIENCE is a suite of works (installations, book, film) based on the language of user manuals. Originally commissioned by SPACE Studios and Queen Mary College London, works are now installed as part of the group show 'Speaking Out Loud', Amsterdam.

film workshops with young people, exploring CCTV and wireless cameras for story telling

A short video about mapping locations and range of CCTV cameras in central London. [ VIDEO 160 sec, QT], on show at the London Transport Museum until MAR 2012

The works of ambient.vista artist-in-residence programme 2008 were shown at V2 The Wharf London. The catalogue is downloadable as pdf.

... is a one-minute film commission Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology as part of Stop. Watch. in association with Arts Council England and Channel 4. The film is a (very) short meditation on the manipulation of winter landscapes for tourism that points to their fragility and recalls the need for a holistic perspective. The video was shown at Centre Pompidou HORS PISTES 09, and premiered at the International China Youth Arts Festival in Beijing. [VIDEO mp4]

04 Sept 2008 at ambient.space : An open-air exhibition of photography by Manu Luksch. During a visit to Beijing in 1996, she took images of newly built, empty road intersections. Between 1966 and 1996, over 60 road intersections were built in Beijing, some of them over 500m long and covering an area of 250,000 sq. m