Redrawing Room for Economics the Blockbuster

Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder (Centre for Plausible Economies) set up a Redrawing Room for Economics the Blockbuster, an exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester which presents 10 contemporary art projects that each operate as real-world economic systems. Responding to the failure of the mainstream capitalist economy, the selected projects propose art practice as economic organising and ways of ‘doing business’ towards social change.

The Redrawing Room uses the middle gallery and consists of economic diagrams and images that have shaped our views and expectations on economy, alongside new diagrams that have been developed with team members from the Whitworth, drawing economies that are familiar and everyday to us.

Regular drop-in and organised workshops for local constituencies and visitors to the gallery use drawing to visualise the economies we want, activating a creative dialogue between art, economy and community action.

Thank you to Poppy Bowers, Head of Exhibitions at the Whitworth, Hannah Vollam, Curatorial Assistant, Ed Watts, Head of Learning and Holly Shuttleworth, executive producer/HS Studio.