Upper Space
Website: http://www.upper-space.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/upper_space
Where do they work?: Ancoats and Beswick, City-Wide
Registered charity number: 0
Description: Upper Space is a non-profit public realm art organisation that is comprised of artists; academics; activists and community organisers. We provide a platform for social artists and projects that challenge how we perceive our shared reality and utilise the arts as a form of social agency. We directly support artist’s practices whilst representing a selection of non-commercial public realm artists that engage with social and environmental justice issues within the UK and abroad. We also provide award winning creative outreach projects that work with young people on social and environmental justice issues, with a particular focus on materialism, social unrest, cultural values and the public realm. If you would like to apply for a residency at our studio located in an old cotton mill, or are interested in our creative services please get in touch.
We are passionate for exploring how the arts can be used as a social agent and we are passionate about social justice. We believe that via situated practices and public realm interventions, art retains the energy of agency within lived experience and, in that space, can reconnect art’s ethical responsibilities to its aesthetic responsibilities. We hope to create discursive spaces within the public sphere, to aid self-constitution as a public whose opinions bear on the organisation of society.
We are passionate for exploring how the arts can be used as a social agent and we are passionate about social justice. We believe that via situated practices and public realm interventions, art retains the energy of agency within lived experience and, in that space, can reconnect art’s ethical responsibilities to its aesthetic responsibilities. We hope to create discursive spaces within the public sphere, to aid self-constitution as a public whose opinions bear on the organisation of society.
Services delivered: Training, volunteer opportuities, art exhibitions, forums, workshops, comment