Aqui Y Alla / Here and There, 2019

An artistic collaboration between practitioners in Argentina and UK, responding with text and images to the theme The Streets / The 'Public'. For this project Bob worked alongside Alicia Nudler of the University of Rio Negro on a number of chapters. The book was published by the University of Leicester on behalf of CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies.

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The Powerhouse Liberation Movement, 2016

Work with Manchester Left Writers (MLW): Natalie Bradbury, Steve Hanson, and David Wilkinson, at Castlefield Gallery for their Launch Pad slot, featuring film, installation, music, performance and a publication. The show concentrated on the regionally relevant subject of urban regeneration; selected from CG Associate members’ submissions by Jerwood Charitable Foundation Director Shonagh Manson and Castlefield Gallery’s Programme Manager Matthew Pendergast.

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The Splash and A Last Drop, 2011

Collaboration with Yu-Chen Wang. Given the opportunity to develop work at a listed heritage site, Victoria Baths in Hathersage Road, Manchester, commissioned by FutureEveything, artist Yu-Chen Wang created an ambitious multimedia project, based on a short science fiction story, A Last Drop, by Bob Dickinson. A new series of drawings and sculptures was accompanied by a film, based on a live performance that took place in one of the empty Edwardian public baths.

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Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives (TRIP)

Bob was one of the coordinators of the TRIP psychogeography festival in at Manchester Metropolitan University, in June 2008. TRIP brought together artists, academics, movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an interdisciplinary conference with a city-wide series of actions, exhibitions, and screenings. TRIP enabled the previously separate worlds of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical environment. And the T-shirts weren’t bad, either.

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