UGO (2016-2019) [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
- 3359
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- British Art Show 8's Associate Programme (2016-17) in Southampton, UK; Digital curation space.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- -
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.4971296
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- 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
- UGO is a pedagogical, practice-based, and curatorial series of contemporary art practice projects. The output contributes to progressive ideas on pedagogical risk taking [Hoekstra. 2018], artist-led project space pedagogy [Wakefield. 2013] and amateurism [Bryan-Wilson & Piekut 2020]. Uniquely UGO’s projects identify practice inadequacies as points for generative processes, in a public domain.
UGO Project Space [2016-17] was developed for the artist-led Associate Programme for the British Art Show 8, Southampton. UGO commissioned a series of new works for a large-format, site-specific public art programme presented on an underused billboard. Three commissions were shown in a high-exposure context, challenging the regional artist-led approach, with its often inadequately published conventional modes of display. A series of 3 artworks were shown on a large format public billboard in a deprived inner city. Significantly, the project was “risk-heavy”, with new territories for all participants: first curatorial project, first major lead project, and first large format print-based project for all practitioners.
UGO Digital Project Space [2018-19] applied this risk-heavy research within a formal pedagogical structure [BA Fine Art programme], to identify knowledge gaps. A digital platform was devised to provide a broad and experimental opportunity for students to consider the potential of the internet as part of a holistic contemporary fine art education. The research theorised and tested the increased focus on digital production and curation of contemporary fine art practice. The space was a real-time website, allowing commissioned artists, students and curators to upload formal presentations. Artists/curators mirrored the ineptitudes identified and the research became a collective troubleshooting experience.
UGO explores the artist-led project space pedagogy as a vehicle for risk taking within formal frameworks. UGO’s aim is to critique the exploration of inadequacies and new territories in an unrefined practice-research [Irwin. 2017] approach, providing new and challenging experiences, outside of artist/curator/student specialist practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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