Through a series of audience generated and participative installations, visitors are invited to consider which aspects of present day Milton Keynes would be retained, modified, fictionalised or forgotten when starting afresh.

The exhibition comprises three parts: The Pub at the End of the Universe, MK2 Survival Kit and Massive Tiny Space Colony.

The Pub at the End of the Universe is a replica of a twenty-first century ‘theme pub’. What better environment could there be to share stories, anecdotes, facts and fiction relating to Milton Keynes?

Postcards
The MK2 Survival Kit gathers local skills and knowledge that will e passed on to future inhabitants of the planet Gliese 581 g. ‘How To’ cards have been contributed through a public call for submissions so that the kit becomes a growing collection of DIY knowledge.

Finally, visitors are invited to play architect and city-planner via the audience generated Massive Tiny Space Colony installation; a scale model of what the MK2 space colony might look like and the values it will uphold.

Will looking into the past and projecting into the future achieve a depere engatement with the present? Will the MK2 colony help build the capacity for affecting change in Milton Keynes? These are just a few of the questions that visitors are invited to ponder by Leeds based art collective Black Dogs who, at the invitation of Lost & Found, MK Gallery’s group of young curators, have transformed the Gallery into a space for speculation and discussion about Milton Keynes’ past, present and future.

Commenting on their commission of the exhibition from Black Dogs, Hannah Heys of Lost & Found, said:
“The participatory nature of Black Dogs’ exhibition proposal is what particularly caught our imagination. As a group, Lost & Found aims to bring new people to the gallery through fresh ideas and projects and this one couldn’t be better. We would encourage anyone and everyone to participate in MK2morrow!”

www.mkgallery.org