Hostile Interior Design

Hostile Interior Design by Gemma Lees (@gemmathepoet)

As part of a DYCP-funded project, artist Gemma Lees travelled to numerous UK cities documenting hostile architecture – features of urban public or privatised space designed to deter the homeless from taking refuge and young people from congregating, but which impact on all kinds of citizens in different ways, including disabled people.

Hostile Interior Design is a new installation, including sound works, which reimagine these features in a domestic setting, asking questions about home, kindness, public space, and the value of citizenship under capitalism.

The installation will be at Manchester Street Poem, Regent Trading Estate by Islington Mill, with a public launch on 18 June from 7pm, with refreshments, and an artist in-conversation, hosted by writer, mentor, and producer Greg Thorpe, formerly of Islington Mill.

Thereafter the installation will be open on the 19th, 20th, 22nd and 24th of June from 12-2pm and 5-8pm.

Unit 4, Islington Mill Trading Estate, Oldfield Road, M5 4DE. There is parking, step-free access and wide doorways to access the ground floor venue.