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.
Action at a Distance, 1980 Bruce McLean
A performance at the Basement, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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A Deliberate Case of Particulars, 1983 Silvia Ziranek
A performance in the Pizzaland restaurant Newcastle upon Tyne
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Alive and Well, 1990 Mona Hatoum
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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An Indian Shooting the Indian Act, 1997 Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton
A performance ritual enacted at the National Rifle Association Range, Bisley and on a private estate, Healey, Northumberland in which First-Nation-Canadian Yuxwelupton shot copies of the Indian Act.
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A Real Work of Art, 1994 Mark Wallinger
An edition of 50 die-cast equestrian statuettes, sold to fund the purchase, stabling and training of a race horse named A Real Work of Art, which ran in the 1994 flat season.
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Asymmetric Snowflake, 2007 Toby Paterson
Asymmetric Snowflake was a commissioned work for the Locus+ 2007 Christmas card.
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Babel's Folly, 2001 Tanya Axford
Babel's Folly crams a former department store space with thousands of rolls of domestic wallpaper pulled into teetering pillars.
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Bob and Jill (pt. 2), 1982 John Adams
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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Breaks on the Bridge, 1983 Bruce McLean
A performance featuring the Whickam Synchronettes - a local group of synchronised swimmers in the Elswick Swimming pool.
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