Fountain 17 (2015-2017) [multi-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3429
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Humber Street Gallery, Hull, England; Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England; Clerkenwell Design Week, Clerkenwell, London, England.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2017
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5324339
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Fountain17 was a collaborative venture celebrating the centenary of Duchamp's Fountain (1917) and the bicentenary of Armitage Shanks sanitaryware established in 1817, sponsored by Arts Council England and supported by Hull UK City of Culture 2017. A group exhibition was held at the Humber Street Gallery in Hull (April 1st - May 14th 2017) accompanied by an illustrated publication.
Minott was invited by the Association Marcel Duchamp, representing Duchamp’s Estate to contribute two pieces of work and act as advisor. The work is the result of decade long exploration of the accepted view of Duchamp’s approach. Two pieces were included in the exhibition. The Bride Stripped Barr (2016) is a mixed media sculpture which superimposes a scaled redrawing of Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (1915-1923) against Alfred Barr Jr.'s Cubism and Abstract Art diagram (1936), playfully illustrating their visual and conceptual similarity. The Genuine Bears This Signature (More Sustaining Than Meat) (2016) is a sequence of seven facsimile chocolate bars in mixed media, presented alongside extracts from Duchamp's White Box notes (1912-20) regarding Appearance and Apparition, which uses the moulding of chocolate as a metaphorical device. By substituting 'Hershey' with 'Duchamp', the French artist becomes an American brand whose infrathin alterations over time mirror his transatlantic crossings.
In addition to preparing the call for local and national artists and designers, Minott contributed an extended essay for the accompanying publication and delivered the opening public lecture entitled Fountain: A Delay in Porcelain, part of his ongoing work to expose the extensive mythology of Fountain perpetuated by respected
institutions worldwide. The Fountain17 exhibition received over 7,000 visitors in Hull before travelling to Clerkenwell Design Week (23rd - 25th May 2017) and the Gladstone Pottery Museum (October - November 2017) as part of the Stoke Biennial.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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