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Watch: An Interview with Theaster Gates
Preparing for Theaster’s first UK public work – Sanctum – in Bristol, Situations Director, Claire Doherty, caught up with Theaster Gates at the White Cube, Bermondsey. Here they discuss Gates’ use of multiple timeframes, his views on public art policy »
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Read: Interview with Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers
Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers instigated a demonstration garden in front of San Francisco’s City Hall, which demonstrated the diversity of urban farming practices funded by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland. Out of this grew new city policy that »
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Watch: Situations on Film – ‘Missorts’ by Tony White
Watch an 8-minute documentary short about Missorts, novelist Tony White’s permanent soundwork for the Redcliffe area of Bristol. The film charts the development and creation of Missorts, including interviews with Tony White, the contributing writers and composer Telford, as well as commentary from leading broadcaster and writer Michael Smith.
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Read: A Commissioned Response to Heather and Ivan Morison’s ‘The Black Cloud’
“The Black Cloud was not just hybrid in style, mixing vernacular architecture with twenty-first century building techniques, but also in function and attitude too; a Sculpture/Pavilion that was dystopian and utopian in equal measure, encapsulating a pessimistic vision of the future in its dark jagged panels, yet at the same time operating as a free space for debates on alternative worlds.”
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Read: Notes from the Field / Summer 2013 Slow Space Bulletin
Download and read the first Slow Space Bulletin ‘Notes from the Field’. In this edition, Slow Space curator, Claire Doherty and artist, Amy Francheschini look back on the past two years, and writer, Tara McDowell reflects on her observations during her time spent with Futurefarmers’ Flatbread Society in June 2013.
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Download and read the first Slow Space Bulletin ‘Notes from the Field’. In this edition, Slow Space curator, Claire Doherty and artist, Amy Francheschini look back on the past two years, and writer, Tara McDowell reflects on her observations during her time spent with Futurefarmers’ Flatbread Society in June 2013.
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Watch an 8-minute documentary short about Missorts, novelist Tony White’s permanent soundwork for the Redcliffe area of Bristol. The film charts the development and creation of Missorts, including interviews with Tony White, the contributing writers and composer Telford, as well as commentary from leading broadcaster and writer Michael Smith.
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Listen to an interview with RCA graduates, Jack Brindley & Lucas Clayton – BC System – on creating their project for New Situationists
READ MOREListen: An Interview with Artists Jack Brindley & Lucas Clayton – BC System
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Read Colin Glen’s Cornucopia pouring from the camera lens: A commissioned response to Heather & Ivan Morison’s 2006 Bristol work, ‘I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life will not be the same’.
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This evaluation report provides an analysis of who, how and why people engaged with Alex Hartley’s Nowhereisland, a landmark Cultural Olympiad Project that took place throughout summer 2012. This full report is now available to download from our website.
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Snowflakes is a new public artwork for Oasis Academy John Williams by Anna Barriball. The artwork uses 720 paper snowflakes made by students and staff and painted on the ground in the front and back of the Academy. Watch this »
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From 2010, Artist Tania Kovats talks about ‘Holm’, a public artwork commissioned and produced for ‘Wonders of Weston’, a public art programme conceived for Weston-Super-Mare, UK.
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“The Black Cloud was not just hybrid in style, mixing vernacular architecture with twenty-first century building techniques, but also in function and attitude too; a Sculpture/Pavilion that was dystopian and utopian in equal measure, encapsulating a pessimistic vision of the future in its dark jagged panels, yet at the same time operating as a free space for debates on alternative worlds.”
READ MORERead: A Commissioned Response to Heather and Ivan Morison’s ‘The Black Cloud’
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From 2010, Artists Raumlaborberlin talk about ‘Silly Scope’, a temporary public artwork commissioned and produced for ‘Wonders of Weston’, a public art programme conceived for Weston-Super-Mare, UK.
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