PANOPLY 2011 INVITE

Panoply
1.An impressive and wide display
2.A complete suite of Armour


Panoply is a performance art event based in costume, fashion design and theatre. It is a new cultural masquerade. The inaugral Panoply took place in October 2010. The Aim was to promote explorative works of performance art.

The Volkov Commanders bring Panoply to the vacant, Piccadilly Place ground floor retail units. The space is brutalist in it's architectural style, without any soft wood or polished floors. Replacing the lack of shop furnishings with progressive fashion design and live sculptural works displayed in front of an audience. Appropriating ‘commerce’ and the commercial in order to insert within it the hand made and conceptually driven.

Much like the Whitworth Galleries’ seminal exhibition, Marina Abromovic presents, the audience must navigate a space which the performers inhabit throughout the event. However, in Panoply some performances stop and start, some only last a few minutes, some the entirety of the event, and so culminate in a throng of differing and staggered live pieces.


As the Volkov Commanders we create fiction for the sake of spectacle. Our aims are to look forward, bringing artists and performers together whose work is dissident of contemporary cultural practices. Our intention is to perpetuate our events as a future ritual, as creatives we inhabit underground enclaves oppressed and opposed by the droning masses. We want you to join our future art cult.


March 31st 2011
6-10pm
Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BN