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.
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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Blackbird Quadralogue, 2014 Ron Geesin
Drawing together the calls of four Blackbirds as they move through one year, Blackbird Quadralogue, is a beautiful musical composition that interrogates notions of territories and belonging, and those of the individual vs the collective.
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Blind Landings, 2013 Jane and Louise Wilson
Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) #3
2013, Photo collage, 360 x 360mm, Variation of 4
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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Buoy, 1996 Stefan Gec
A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)
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Celestial Objects, 2013 Sarah Pickering
Celestial Objects, by Sarah Pickering, has been made by photographing a revolver fired in total darkness.
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Christmas Carol, 1991 Ian Breakwell
A performance in which four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes performed in Newcastle's Northumberland Street.
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Coil To Met, 2009 Alastair MacLennan
A two-day durational performance in an old disused warehouse as part of Wunderba Live Art Festival.
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