A Needle Walks into a Haystack.
Citation Summary:
Evans, C. (2014) A Needle Walks into a Haystack [Platinum and yellow gold ring with diamonds, sapphires and helidor commissioned from Boodles] exhibited at five institutions: Liverpool Biennial [exhibition] Liverpool (05/07/14-26/10/14); Clerk of Mind [solo exhibition] Project Arts Centre, Dublin (05/11/14-17/01/15); Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform [solo exhibition] PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (31/01/15-13/06/15); Drippy Etiquette, A Needle Walks into a Haystack [solo exhibition] Markus Luettgen Gallery (30/02/25-28/02/15); Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl [exhibition], Schloss Ringenberg (01/06/15-12/07/15).
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32CE2
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Liverpool Biennial (2014); Project Arts, Dublin (solo exhibition, 2014); Markus Luettgen, Cologne (solo exhibition, 2015); PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (Solo exhibition, 2015); Schloss Ringenberg, Germany, International group exhibition2015
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of production
- July
- Year of production
- 2014
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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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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘A Needle Walks into a Haystack’ was invited for the international section of the 2014 iteration of Liverpool Biennial—the UK biennial of contemporary art experienced by a major local, national and international audience. For the commission I asked the luxury jeweller, Boodles, who were major sponsors of the biennial, to divert their financial support towards making a piece of jewellery in response to the press release, interpreting the exhibition’s core ideas as a creative brief. Boodles made a platinum and yellow gold ring with sapphires and helidor and I made a relief sculpture vitrine to house it. The imagination of a luxury brand becomes mixed up with artistic vision, blurring the roles of everyone involved. The work continues my research into the premise that the evolution of an artwork is relational to a hidden negotiation of beliefs, social status and ideological positions and investigates methods through which the currency of these relations be rendered visible. I investigated methods in which an artwork might intervene in these relationships, reconfiguring the context through which it is informed rather than being confined by it. Boodles jewellery has an air of accessibility due to its ubiquity in mainstream magazines and I was looking for parallels between this ostensible access and the hypothesis of access harboured by a high-profile, internationally-focused art event with respect to its site and its public, promoting its remit towards providing greater access and reaching a wider demographic. The artwork was subsequently widely exhibited at a number of European institutions: Schloss Ringenberg, Germany, (International group exhibition), 2015; PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art (solo exhibition), and reviewed in numerous professional journals including the art magazine frieze (a review of Liverpool Biennial and a review of my solo exhibition at Project Arts, Dublin).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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