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.
Ian Breakwell Christmas Carol, 1991
A performance in which four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes performed in Newcastle's Northumberland Street.
Read moreChris Burden Ghost Ship, 2005
Ghost Ship involved the construction and development of a crewless, self-navigating sailing boat, which undertook its maiden voyage between Fair Isle, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne. Audiences were able to track the boats progress via a live, daily updated website.
Read moreChris Burden The Sailing Destroyer, 1990
The Sailing Destroyer was an attempt by the artist to radically modify an existing, but obsolete warship into a sailing vessel.
Read moreNathan Coley Show Home, 2003
Show Home is a temporary public art work that addresses the aspirations of home buying and associated lifestyle packages.
Read moreJo Coupe Fruitbody, 2001
For the work Fruitbody, Coupe turned a warehouse into an incubating environment to reproduce graffiti tags (signatures) found in the city, from mould.
Read moreShane Cullen Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV, 1996
The work consists of ninety-six large tablet like panels onto which the artist has transcribed meticulously in paint the contents of numerous 'Comms'; the written communications smuggled in and out of H-Blocks during the hunger strikes.
Read moreLayla Curtis NewcastleGateshead, 2005
NewcastleGateshead is a collaged map compiled from regional namesakes taken from city maps worldwide. In the form of a generic folded map, the collage mimics the existing, familiar structure of NewcastleGateshead.
Read moreLayla Curtis Polar Wandering, 2005
A web-based project that recorded the three-month journey the artist made to and from Antarctica.
Read moreCathy de Monchaux The Day Before You Looked Through Me, 1998
The Day Before You Looked Through Me is de Monchaux's first permanent public artwork, incorporating the use of photography on a monumental scale.
Read moreMark Dion Memorial to Thomas Bewick, 2007
A semi-permanent sculptural memorial to Thomas Bewick sited in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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