8 Loom Street

+44(0)7890 497422

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Dave Beech
Graham Parker
Rachel Goodyear
James Hutchinson

 

Established in collaboration with Architects Britch, floating ip is situated in the basement of an architect's office.

Two parallel exhibition programmes are run in a project space and a plan chest as well as a programme of events.

 

 

floating ip is a gallery based in Ancoats - the physical heart of the industrial revolution in Manchester (directions).

Run by artists Dave Beech, Graham Parker, Rachel Goodyear and James Hutchinson, it has been established as a long term space for innovative practice and research, with an emphasis on archiving some of the best of Manchester art practice alongside significant projects by international peers.

In its original usage, the term 'floating ip' referred to internet service providers' supply of local phone numbers for international cities, so that their clients would be able to access the internet from portable computers at local call rates - a moment of genuine local agency amidst the generic experience of international travel. Through building up a programme of national, local and international projects with a stated ambition of ongoing collaboration with remote artists and organisations, alongside a physical, video and online archive of artists and writers passing through Manchester, floating ip aims to be one of the venues that anyone wishing to understand a flavour of practice and ideas within the city should include on their itinerary.