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.
For You Only You, 2008 Sonia Boyce
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Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV, 1996 Shane Cullen
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.
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Fruitbody, 2001 Jo Coupe
For the work Fruitbody, Coupe turned a warehouse into an incubating environment to reproduce graffiti tags (signatures) found in the city, from mould.
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Ghost Ship, 2005 Chris Burden
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.
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Good Violence and Physical Manners Pt.I and Pt.II, 1986 Bruce McLean
A two-day performance at the Laing Art Gallery employing telephones, radios and CB radios dealing with notions of interference and interruption.
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Gregnik (Proto 1), 1996 Gregory Green
A fully functional communications satellite created to broadcast stories and anecdotes from the community in the Meadow Well estateTyne & Wear
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Heat Signature, 2003 Gary Perkins
An interactive installation using heat and thermal imaging technology to recreate Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Freidrich.
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Hidden Cities, 1995 Ian Breakwell
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Hotel Monument, 2008 Tatzu Nishi
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How To Con A Capitalist, 1995 Daniel J. Martinez
Street performance, interrogating assumptions of public space and cultural hierarchy.
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