Ceremony
comissioned by Phil Collins / Manchester International Festival
MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
Sun 16 July: World premiere – NCP Bridgewater Hall Car Park – Free event
Friedrich Engels – philosopher, writer, radical thinker – is coming back home.
Turner Prize-nominated artist Phil Collins is returning Engels to the city where he made his name – in the form of a Soviet-era statue, driven across Europe and permanently installed in the centre of Manchester.
Phil Collins – Artist, Mica Levi & Demdike Stare, Gruff Rhys – Music, raumlaborberlin, Florian Stirnemann – Architectural & Set Design
