@bunkertalks 2025/6 season has an exciting selection of artists, screenwriters, curators and performers.
Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue.
Book tickets & join the conversation
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Please come along on Tues evening to hear one of my favourite artists, Stephen Sutcliffe, talk about his work. We'll be upstairs at The Salutation in Manchester at 5.30pm. Link in bio to book (free) x
Bunker Talk #165 with Stephen Sutcliffe is taking place next week at the Salutation Pub, tickets are available via our bio!
UK based artist Stephen Sutcliffe (1968, Harrogate) creates and exhibits films, collages, wall paintings and photographs from an extensive archive of material he has been amassing since childhood, together with items found in institutional collections.
Often reflecting on aspects of British culture and identity and having literary origins, the results are melancholic, poetic and satirical amalgams which subtly tease out and critique ideas of class-consciousness and cultural authority.
Employing an extensive editing process Sutcliffe’s works subvert predominant narratives, generating alternative readings through the juxtaposition and layering of both found and self-generated material.
Here are some pics from last nights Bunker Talk with Benedict L Phillips on An A-Z of neurodivergent ideas, hosted by Anne-Marie Atkinson! Thank you to both for giving such an engaging and interesting talk 🗣️
Thank you to everyone who came to this talk, a video recording will be available on the Bunker Talk archive at the end of the month!
Meet Benedict Phillips @benedictlphillips our guest speaker for next week’s Bunker Talk, An A-Z of neurodivergent ideas. Please join us for an artist talk and Q&A hosted by @annemarie_atkinson (@mcrschart ).
For tickets and more information, visit the link in our bio!!
See you there?
Bunker Talk #164, An A-Z of neurodivergent ideas, with artist Benedict L Phillips is taking place on 5 May at The Salutation Pub !!
Benedict Phillips is an established artist, curator, and consultant. His practice is eclectic, encompassing a broad range of methodologies, generating work as diverse as public art, performance, sculpture, photography, and media art. He is particularly concerned with the ongoing interrelationship and shifting hierarchy between photography, sculpture and performance within his practice, and the aesthetics of each approach. Exploiting historical production processes as well as more recent digitally driven approaches informs the making of much of his work.
Book your place using the link in our bio 🔗 we look forward to seeing you there 🫶
Just one more week to go before Bunker Talk #163 with Be Andr !! Get tickets using the link in our bio 🔗
Be Andr (b. 1978, Norway) is a London-based artist and researcher whose practice treats code as a material and temporal condition, combining algorithmic systems with oil painting to probe the boundary between image, text, and execution.
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The recording of Bunker Talk #161 hosted by Zodwa Nyoni @itsntombizodwa in conversation with writer and performance artist Jamal Gerald @jamiboii is now available to watch on the Bunker Talk website!
Follow the link in our bio to watch the full talk 🔗
STUDENT INTERNSHIP 2026- PERFORMANCE RESEARCH AND EVENTS INTERN
Are you interested in performance and/or archives? Would you like to be involved in a dynamic research environment and to take a key role in planning its research activity? The Performance Research Group (PRG), based in the School of English, is currently planning a conference at the Royal Exchange Theatre on 23-24 June 2026 on ‘Performing Archives ‘and will need administrative and marketing support. The intern will support the group’s leadership team in planning the conference (June) as well as supporting its profile-raising activity related to the conference. This will be an exciting role for someone who is creative, dynamic and interested in the arts and how researchers work together.
Follow the link in our bio to apply 🔗
CFP deadline 24 April!!
PRG are inviting contributions for the upcoming conference and sharing event ‘Between Then and Now:
Performing Archives’ which will take place at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre on 23-24
June 2026. The conference seeks to interrogate the role of the archive in shaping, capturing,
echoing, and contextualising performance, and to bring this area of thinking and practice into
productive dialogue.
The link to the call for papers is in our bio 🔗
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