Quarantine

is a group of people working together as artists and producers who are united by an interest in everyday life. Our work across performance and other forms deals with the politics and aesthetics of contemporary experience and how we relate to one another.  

Rooted in Manchester, England since 1998, we make and tour our work around the world.

A landscape with a small figure stood in the middle holding an object that can't be made out
Work

Telescope

Telescope is a live exhibition of borrowed belongings, and their owners’ thoughts about where they themselves belong.
A group of people of different ages interact in a room with bubbles in the air
Work

The Questions

The Questions is a three-part project taking place in 2025 in Manchester and Chemnitz, twin cities since 1983.

Through performance, conversation and cultural exchange, Quarantine, in collaboration with ASA-FF (Chemnitz, Germany) will work together to create intergenerational encounters, both locally and internationally.
Quarantine, 12 Last Songs, Glasgow, 2024. Courtesy Tramway - Glasgow Life. Photo: Brian Hartley
Performance

12 Last Songs

12 Last Songs is a durational piece by Quarantine about labour – the work that we do. Taking place over 12 hours, it is part-performance, part-exhibition of people.

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Telescope at Manchester Museum – in drawings

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Announcing the speakers for Art of Assembly XXXII: Jenna Ashton, Linda Brogan & Alistair Hudson

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The Questions: this autumn

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