The Temple That Used to Be a Toilet
Manchester put a bar in a former public toilet. An unlikely venue, a remarkably good name, and a question about what a city does with rooms it no longer needs.
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The Temple That Used to Be a Toilet
Manchester put a bar in a former public toilet. An unlikely venue, a remarkably good name, and a question about what a city does with rooms it no longer needs.
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FIELD / 001 AN OPEN QUESTION
IN THE MARGINSWHAT WAS SEEN?WHAT WAS RECORDED?WHAT WAS UNDERSTOOD?
01 / WRITTEN TRAILS
From the margins.
A note may begin in the ordinary and end somewhere else entirely.
02 / CONNECTIONS
Nothing stays
in one place.
One object. Several versions. A place that appears in a story and later in a record. Connections are invitations to look again, not instructions to agree.
03 / THE CABINET
Things left on the table.
Documents, photographs, unresolved leads and objects. Real records carry real provenance.
The cabinet awaits its first verified source or artifact. Nothing will be presented as evidence simply because it looks archival.
04 / TRANSMISSIONS
Some things are
better said aloud.
22 Transmissions. A weekly first season of independent oral stories, research trails, digressions and interruptions.
SEASON ONE / IN PREPARATION05 / WORKS & SIGNALS
Different forms. Related questions.
Books, recordings and other works enter when a meaningful connection exists. They have independent lives.
The works index will grow from real publications, not speculative listings.