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.
Illumination Rig, 2006 Graham Gussin
A site-specific installation using film-lights to illuminate urban non-spaces, in particular the locations where architectural styles clash
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Intellectual Properties, 1986 John Adams
This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.
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Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn, 1996 Jan Wade & Vanessa Richards
A site-specific performance installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the last English slaving port and Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, the birthplace of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce
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Landskip, 2000 Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson, Landskip. 2000
Commissioned as part of the pre-opening season at Compton Verney.
Look No Body!, 1981 Mona Hatoum
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Love Your Depot_LDN, 2020 Jewyo Rhii
Part of an ongoing project which awarded Rhii the 2019 Korea Artist Prize for her show at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, the exhibition at KCCUK has been reconstituted into a multi-purpose, multi-dimensional presentation that is particularly poignant in this current climate. Showcasing a combination of a physical storage space for artworks and a workspace for creative activities, Rhii also brings the show to the digital realm by creating an accompanying online platform.
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Mainbeam, 1983 Charlie Hooker
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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Memorial to Thomas Bewick, 2007 Mark Dion
A semi-permanent sculptural memorial to Thomas Bewick sited in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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