Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist who works with photography, film, video and sound as a participatory practice that foregrounds situated and relational processes. Her projects often explore specific sites, public spaces or particular communities in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities. The mutability of subjectivity as well as the agency of the camera in creating a set of relations are key interests within Manchot’s ongoing enquiry into personhood and its representations. The practice operates on the threshold of choreography and observation, of documentary modes and staged scenarios or events – working with an economy of gestures to articulate relations orchestrated by and around the camera. Her projects often position the camera as an organising principle in which the production of situations and relations occurs alongside the production of images. Through a commission from Liverpool Biennial, Manchot is in mid-production for her first long-form narrative film which will take both the form of a feature film for cinematic distribution and a multi-channel installation for gallery and museum presentation. The film is made with a group of recovering addicts who have been developing the project with Manchot over the past two years. The film incorporates many of Manchot current and on-going research interests but explores these for the first time through narrative fiction.