The Salford Restoration Office

The Salford Restoration Office is a curatorial practice that develops projects with cultural institutions in Manchester, addressing questions of artistic context and policy, and generating discussion surrounding the conditions art institutions and artists in the city find themselves operating within. The Salford Restoration Office worked with Dan Shipsides to make Radical Architecture for Castlefield Gallery, and developed The Whitworth Cabinet with The Whitworth Art Gallery. In addition to the activities made in partnership with institutions, they also work with artists active in the region on: Centrifuge (with Imogen Stidworthy, Dirk Fleischmann, Manchester Metropolitan University); and Reading Capital, a reading group dedicated to reading Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. They are currently developing a project with nextex, St Gallen, Switzerland and The International 3, Manchester, and will speak at Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators, 3,4 and 5 March 2009.