Art in the Expanded Public Field
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Stark, G. 2018. EP
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- East Kent Railway (Dover), Pafos (Cyprus), Coastal Trail (Dover), Kearsney Abbey (Dover)
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2018
- URL
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https://research.uca.ac.uk/view/projects/Art_in_the_Expanded_Public_Field.html
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- 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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- Research group(s)
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5 - Space and Place
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ART IN THE EXPANDED PUBLIC FIELD is a research output by Gabor Stark. Four site-specific public art projects all address the liminal space between architecture, installation and sculpture, and investigate the capability of collaborative art practice to positively impact on the co-creation of the civic urban realm. Rooted in the concepts of the Expanded Field (Krauss, 1979) and Critical Spatial Practice (Rendell, 2006), Stark’s practice-led research contributes to theoretical and professional discourses about the role of the arts in culture-led urban regeneration and participatory placemaking.
EKR - THE FRIENDLY ARMY is a site-specific project commemorating the First World War, located in Dover, Kent. In the two-year research and realisation process Stark, together with volunteers of the East Kent Railway Trust, built six permanently-sited sculptures that trace the historical connections of the former industrial railway line to the war. POLYCATOIKIA was a temporary art and architecture installation in Pafos, Cyprus, realised by Gabor Stark and Emilio Koutsoftides as part of the official Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture programme. SPACE STANDARDS presents a set of seven portable sculptures devised by Stark for his performative artist’s walk for the cultural tourism project ChalkUp 21, a new art and architecture trail that links selected 21st century buildings and public artworks along the Strait of Dover. MEANDER was a temporary installation and public event at Kearsney Abbey in Dover, realised during Stark’s residency for the ‘Art in the Park: Kearsney Interpreted’ project. The four projects expand the public field by experimenting with new formats that synthesise the complex dimensions, protocols, and procedures of collaborative artworks in the civic realm.
The supporting portfolio presents the aims, questions and processes that led to new insights and describes those insights. It presents images of the work and contextual information on the dissemination and recognition of the research.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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