Hazard 2007

Sculpture and Performances Festival in Manchester City, UK
3000 Meters of Caution Tape, Enclosed the Cathedral Gardens in Manchester city centre

Shahram Entekhabi transfers these ideas about confrontation within his sculptures and para-architectural installations (Ongoing Projects since 2001 to date. ). These sculptures/ informal architectures are always constructed in public-spaces and always made from caution tapes suggesting ideas about safety zones and no go areas and importantly who is permitted and not within the public space. These works deal with the dual concept of performance and public space and time.

Hazard is a biennial micro-festival of incidental intervention + sited performance, blurring the boundaries between art and activism…
Organized by greenroom is Manchester’s centre for new extraordinary performance and hÅb, programmed by Tamsin Drury . . . Artistic, Architectural and Performative Interventions in Urban Space . . .  A micro-festival of incidental intervention and sited performance, blurring the boundaries between art and activism… cheeky, thought-provoking and sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity…