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.

Gregory Green Gregnik (Proto 1), 1996

A fully functional communications satellite created to broadcast stories and anecdotes from the community in the Meadow Well estateTyne & Wear

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Gregnik (Proto 1)

Graham Gussin Illumination Rig, 2006

A site-specific installation using film-lights to illuminate urban non-spaces, in particular the locations where architectural styles clash

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Illumination Rig

Mona Hatoum Look No Body!, 1981

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Look No Body!

Mona Hatoum Position: Suspended, 1986

A performance lasting the duration of a day in which Hatoum occupied a rudimentary wedge-shaped cage or shack

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Position: Suspended

Mona Hatoum Alive and Well, 1990

An installation at the very end of the Victoria Tunnel, behind the barred gate. The piece was created from the heating elements of an electric fire which glowed in the dark.

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Alive and Well

Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 1988

A series of commissioned poster works for advertising hoardings on the Tyne & Wear Metro and in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derry, London, Glasgow and Middlesbrough.

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Over My Dead Body

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Nach Chernobyl, 1996

In 1986 Hesse-Honegger began to document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, making studies of insects affected by the radiation plume that spread across Europe.

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Nach Chernobyl

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

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Print Portfolio

Charlie Hooker Move In, 1981

Photoluminescent installation for choreographed percussion.

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Move In

Charlie Hooker Mainbeam, 1983

Mainbeam - a ballet for vehicles - was a performance carried out at night in the Trinity Square Multi-storey car park in Gateshead.

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Mainbeam