Locus+ Archive The Locus+ Archive at the University of Sunderland is the largest archive of time-based work in the UK
		The Locus+ Archive (incorporating material from the Basement Group and Projects UK) forms a comprehensive historical overview of time-based work from the 1970s to the present, covering artists' projects from a variety of British and international contexts. Documenting individual and festival events and work ranging from performance art to sculpture, conceptual work to site-specific installation, the Locus+ Archive is an invaluable resource for arts organisations, museums, critics, lecturers, students and artists. Consisting of approximately 16,000 photographic images, and over 300 hours of raw and edited video material, the Locus+ Archive is one of Europe's largest repositories of documentation of time-based work.
		This Will Not Happen Without You A comprehensive publication illustrating artistic practice from 1977 - 2007 from the Locus+ Archive featuring many artists such asIan Breakwell. Mona Hatoum, Bruce McLean, Stuart Brisley, John carson, Andre Stitt, Alastair MacLennan, Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Karen Finley, Richard Wilson, Stefan Gec, Marina Ambramovic, Chris Burden, Mark Wallinger, Simon Patterson, Nathan Coley and Anya Gallaccio amongst others. The book also contains critical and anecdotal texts from acclaimed writers and cultural critics. ISBN 978-1-899377-25-1 £20 +p&p Available from Locus+
							Published to coincide with the touring show of the same name, 21.11.2006 - 20.01.2007 John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton 10.02.2007 - 31.03.2007 Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27.09.2007 - 27.10.2007 Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast
		PhD As apart of the two Phd posts attached to the Locus+ Archive and in conjunction with Interface, Ulster University and Sunderland University, several AHRC collaborative post-graduate research seminars have been organised around notions of archiving: 25 November 06, Investigating the Archive, Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast 22 March 07, Interacting with the Archive, National Glass Centre, Sunderland 28 March 07, Per-forming the Archive, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle 27 April 07, Facilitating the Archive, Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast 22-23 June 07, Consensus Contention, Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast		Arkive City The Locus+ Archive has recently published, in association with Interface, University of Ulster and the AHRC the research book Arkive City that documents these seminars in a wider context. The contributors to Arkive City map out important questions and shifts in interest that have arisen from the changing role of archiving in culture, and it’s relationship with the arts, through their work: curating exhibitions, deconstructing art history, running library and government archives and shaping individual practice. ISBN 978-1-899377-30-5 £10 +p&p Available from Locus+
		The Alastair MacLennan Archive In 2008, one of Britain's major influential practitioners in live art; Alastair MacLennan expressed a desire to bequeath his entire archive to the custodianship of the Locus+ Archive. Since the early ‘70s his long durational performances have dealt with notions of political, social and cultural malfunction. The Alastair MacLennan Archive is an extensive record of this practice featuring thousands of transparencies as well as original works on paper. The archive is currently being audited, conserved and digitised. image right:Lie to Lay 1986  120 hrs non-stop performance and installation Projects UK (off Rosebery Crescent) Newcastle, UK 2nd March 1986, 12:00 noon - 7th March 1986, 12:00 noon image far right:Lid off a Daffodil 2000 Actuation (performance installation) Performance 14th December 2000, 7.00am - 8.00pm (13 Hours non-stop) Installation 14th December 2000 - January 2001. For exhibition Performance Art and the Museum at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain