Commissioning Contemporary Art by Louisa Buck

Commissioning Contemporary Art by Louisa Buck

Author:Louisa Buck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2013-05-06T16:00:00+00:00


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Chris Dercon, director, Tate Modern, London

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The commissioning and research programme Situations, based at the University of the West of England in Bristol, is another organization dedicated to both the production and the critical analysis of artworks commissioned in response to specific local conditions. These include such permanent works as Jeppe Hein’s mirrored labyrinth Follow Me, installed in the grounds of the University of Bristol in 2009, and Hew Locke’s Ruined (2010), a collection of cast-iron grave markers in an eighteenth-century cemetery garden in Bristol, relating to commercial companies that no longer exist or have undergone transformation through takeovers, bankruptcy, nationalization or other economic or political changes.

Situations’ engagement with localities is not restricted to the United Kingdom. As well as producing Alex Hartley’s nowhereisland for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Situations partnered with Massey University in Wellington and a range of arts institutions across New Zealand to produce ‘One Day Sculpture’, the country’s first nationwide series of temporary, place-based artworks. These sculptures were commissioned from artists over the course of a year between June 2008 and June 2009 and each one lasted for just twenty-four hours. Day-long projects included Paola Pivi’s I Wish I am Fish, in which eighty goldfish, each in their own glass bowl, were flown in a chartered jet over the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand with a film of the in-flight fish screened the same evening; Roman Ondák deposited piles of sawdust around the Old Government Building in Wellington for his Camouflaged Building; and for Today We Don’t Use the Word Dollars by Superflex, the employees of Auckland’s Karangahape Road branch of the ANZ bank were forbidden to say or use the word ‘dollars’ for one day, incurring a fine of $1 if they did not employ other words of their own choice to explain themselves to customers and co-workers.



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