Aviva Studios, home of Factory International
Vast flexible arts venue with a warehouse for five thousand, built on a former TV studio lot.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Aviva Studios in Manchester, home of Factory International, is about the people who built it rather than the people who designed it. It follows an artist and a musician who spent two and a half years recording crews on site and in the factories that made its materials, and a photographer who turned her lens on the same workforce. Listen from Water Street, facing the building, where Granada's television studios once stood.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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