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largely from the public purse. But inside the fractal metal box are a hugely flexible
series of spaces, which can be reconfigured to host everything from intimate plays to
massive installations to live concerts. Its central warehouse is 65 metres long and 21
metres high – that’s four double-decker buses worth of headspace – and holds up to
5,000 people.

Ellen van Loon of Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s design for Factory

International. Photograph: OMA/PA
And opening seasons don’t get much more high profile: The Factory hosts Yayoi
Kusama’s largest ever installation, You, Me and the Balloons, in which the Japanese artist
will fill the venue with her psychedelic, polka-dotted inflatables, some more than 10
metres high (29 June to 28 August).
October sees a large-scale, immersive adaptation of The Matrix directed by Danny
Boyle. Free Your Mind is written by Sabrina Mahfouz, with music and choreography
from Michael “Mikey J” Asante and Kenrick “H2O” Sandy of Boy Blue and giant
sculptural sets from Es Devlin. Hundreds of Manchester residents will perform
alongside professionals to recreate some of the film’s most famous moments. Holly
Williams

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