If you are in Manchester this weekend, stop by to cheer me on as I perform Mellor Management:SweatSHOP as part of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival.

Mellor Management: SweatSHOP is an interactive, performative installation using humour and play to critique and subvert corporate practices. Using a local business as the temporary Mellor Management headquarters and under the guise of a corporate consultant, Mellor will attempt a test of endurance, cycling on a bicycle attached to a small generator powering a LED “SHOP” sign.

After the athletic feats accomplished at the Olympics, SweatSHOP aims to sensitise us to the corporatisation of sport and the failure of many companies’ labour policies through the artist’s own physical trials.

I will be performing the following times at Ferrious, a beautiful and comprehensive furniture showroom in the UK. They are an innovative, well respected and forward thinking multidisciplinary design team offering visitors and clients the finest furniture, kitchens, lighting and accessories from the best designers from across the world. Set under a railway arch and situated over two floors with a fully working Acheo kitchen and hidden garden space overlooking the River Medlock, they are truly one of the gems of Manchester. They hold regular events, exhibitions and demonstrations that add a new and unique flavour to the cultural map of Manchester and the North West.

Cycling times:

Thursday 11-5:30

Friday 9:30-5:30

Saturday 10-5

Ferrious is located on Whitworth St West (M1 5WQ) in Manchester city centre, less than a minute’s walk from Cornerhouse and Manchester Oxford Road railway station.