Manchester University, June 30 to July 1 2025.
Lead Artist: Ruth Maclennan with Artist Fellows 2025-6: Gluklya, Shona Illingworth, Aurelia Mihai, Keti Chukhrov and Curatorial Fellow 2025-6: Bergit Arends.
The UKRI Network Plus ‘Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China, and Eurasia in Transition’ brings together a network of leading expertise and centres of excellence from across the UK and overseas to address gaps and needs in research during a period of major societal, geopolitical, and environmental transformation spanning Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central, East & Pacific Asia.
The emphasis of the Polarities Arts Programme is on thinking across or outside categories and political borders, on seeing and listening at different scales, and from multiple perspectives. The Polarities Arts Programme invites artists whose practices are attuned to the intertwined environmental, cultural, psychosocial and geopolitical upheavals playing out around them, and on their radar. The programme is devised and organised by Lead Artist Ruth Maclennan.