The Manchester Hermit blog was recently shortlisted fro the Manchester Blog Awards, so myself and a few others went along on Wednesday evening to find out if we’d won… drum roll… we didn’t win, but we got runners up in the Best Arts and Culture category. Pretty good really and all credit to the Hermit [...]
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The Hermit has now finished his residency at the museum, but he is still keeping up with the discussions on his blog if you want to contribute. The project has been a great sucess, with over 32,000 visits to his blog from around the world. The debate has been heated and has been a great [...]
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Most of my time is taken up with preparing for the Manchester Hermit at the moment. We don’t want to spoil the fun for when he is in the tower, so I can’t really talk about it much at the moment, other than to say it should be really exciting! Louise Sutherland and I managed [...]
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The Manchester Hermit has been announced as Ansuman Biswas, a London based live artist. Ansuman has worked on a range of exciting projects around the world, such as living with minstrels in India, touring with Bjork and being an artist in residence at the Russian Space Agency. Whilst in the museum’s tower Ansuman will represent [...]
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Happy new year everyone! It’s been good to have a break over Christmas, but the are some exciting things to come here at the museum. The first week back has been busy sending out information for potential hermits which will be taking up residence in the museum in the summer. Other things we are preparing [...]
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The Manchester Museum is advertising for a hermit to live in its Gothic tower for 6-8 weeks in the Summer of 2009. We are looking for an inspirational and quirky artist who will bring the tower to life through their work. Anyone with an arts or performance background can apply. The hermit will have access [...]
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