Shilpa Gupta: You are the place

A person stood in a a dark room, surrounded by cables and microphones suspended from the ceiling.

Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Location: see individual event for details

Cost: Free

Time: 11am - 8pm

About this event

Artist Shilpa Gupta connects and collects stories with different communities to create a thought-provoking sound installation in Rochdale at the RISE Inavate Centre on Smith Street.

For Manchester International Festival 25, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta has worked with different local community groups in to explore absence, longing, belonging and hope.

Created in partnership with Rochdale Development Agency, the work culminates in a sound installation using a series of singing microphones.

Wander around the installation taking in different perspectives in this moving and thought-provoking work of art about waiting, persistence and hope.

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