Projects by Artist
The Locus+ Archive (incorporating material from the Basement Group and Projects UK) hosted at the University of Sunderland currently has two PhD posts affiliated to it and is the largest archive of time-based work in Europe. It forms a comprehensive historical overview of contemporary art practice from the early '70s to the present, covering artists' projects from a variety of British and international contexts. Here is a snapshot of the projects that have been digitized to date.
John Adams Intellectual Properties, 1986
This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.
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John Adams Bob and Jill (pt. 2), 1982
In Bob and Jill (Pt. 2), the relation between fact and fiction in the personal and popular narratives of everyday life is rendered in an assemblage of soap opera conventions, performance and documentary
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John Adams Sensible Shoes, 1983
Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives.
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Tanya Axford Babel's Folly, 2001
Babel's Folly crams a former department store space with thousands of rolls of domestic wallpaper pulled into teetering pillars.
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Fiona Banner Tornado, 2010
Tornado by Fiona Banner was a co-commission by Locus+ and Great North Run Culture forming part of the Cultural Olympiad's Open Weekend.
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Catherine Bertola Scratching the Surface, 2001
For the work Scratching the Surface Bertola engraved a traditional decorative pattern into the exterior wall of a once-domestic, now-commercial building.
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Sonia Boyce For You Only You, 2008
A triptych video installation of a collaborative project that addresses the boundary between classical music and sound art. For you, only you comprises the fusion of a musical masterpiece of the early 16th century - Tu solus qui facis mirabilia (You alone can do wonders) by Josquin Desprez – sung by Alamire and contemporary sound art by Mikhail Karikis.
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