Projects by Year: 1986
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.
1986 Bruce McLean, Good Violence and Physical Manners Pt.I and Pt.II
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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1986 John Adams, Intellectual Properties
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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1986 Mona Hatoum, Position: Suspended
A performance lasting the duration of a day in which Hatoum occupied a rudimentary wedge-shaped cage or shack
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1986 John Kippin, The Strawberry Portraits
A series of portraits of artists photographed by John Kippin upstairs at The Strawberry pub in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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