WEEK 08: Tuesday 14 November 2006
Public art and photography> commissioning agencies, briefs, negotiations
browsing for class and to view on your own:
a-n The Artists Information Company
http://www.a-n.co.uk/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/home.d2w/input
relevant (free) resources:
engaged practice
http://www.a-n.co.uk/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/topic.d2w/input?menu=2§ion=2&topic=74998&textonly=0
social space
http://www.a-n.co.uk/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/tour.d2w/input?menu=3§ion=228156&topic=245288&id=245285&textonly=0
Artquest. The Opportunities section lists deadlines dates for residencies, funding, commissions
http://www.artquest.org.uk/opportunities/index.html
PENINSULA is a programme of contemporary media arts commissions by Independent Photography.
http://www.peninsulaprojects.net
Public Art Development Trust.
http://www.padt.org.uk/
Roni Horn’s Another Water is a book about the surface of the River Thames
http://www.padt.org.uk/thrp/horn/hornes.html
Artangel -Towards a Promised Land – Wendy Ewald’s large-scale banner photographs of children newly arrived in Margate – with fifteen black and white portraits displayed along Margate’s Sea Wall.
http://www.themargateexodus.org.uk/tapl.php
Public Art Online. Public Art South West manages both the Public Art Online website and the website for PROJECT – engaging artists in the built environment.
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/
Four Shores. Artists: Stephen Turner (lead artist), Ros Barber (poet), Simon Barker (architect) and Abbe Leigh Fletcher (filmmaker)
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/case/four_shores/description
Case Study: Electric Wharf. A team of artists was engaged between 2002 and 2006 with briefs to create temporary and permanent works of art
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/case/electric_wharf/index.php
Up in the Air / Further Up in the Air- two ambitious programmes of artists residencies in Sheil Park, Liverpool
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/case/up_in_air/index.php
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Susan Jones. Financing yor work(8-21); Eddie Chambers and Yvonen Dean. Making proposals(41-59). In A-N: The Artists’ Guide to Planning and Financing Work.
DUE on class 9 | POST ON blog
Brief 7 – Documenting: share the results of your work.
Treating the documentation of your project. Selection of images and text
Development of your working design, text, images, etc. upload to blog as the online presentation/documentation of the project