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.
Sacred Selections, 2006 Matt Stokes
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Scratching the Surface, 2001 Catherine Bertola
For the work Scratching the Surface Bertola engraved a traditional decorative pattern into the exterior wall of a once-domestic, now-commercial building.
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Search, 1993 Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup
A project that highlighted the capabilities of the new CCTV systems and their impact on our personal freedom.
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Second Moon, 2013 Katie Paterson
A fragment of the Moon, couriered around the earth for one year.
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Sensible Shoes, 1983 John Adams
Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives.
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Show Home, 2003 Nathan Coley
Show Home is a temporary public art work that addresses the aspirations of home buying and associated lifestyle packages.
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Skeleton, 1994 John Newling
A temporary installation in which the residue of approximately 80,000 template sheets of communion bread (after the wafer had been punched out) were stacked at intervals on the church pews.
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Slow Motion Car Crash, 2012 Jonathan Schipper
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Sovereign, 1995 Philip Napier
A videotape and video installation produced during a residency by Belfast artist Philip Napier in Vancouver, Canada.
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Space Travel, 2005 Elizabeth Wright
A sequence of 115 images of the interior of car parks reproduced on large light-reflective panels viewable through the Metro carriage as it passes through the tunnel.
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