Public art curating for the post-regenerate city
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 14294/22878
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- T - Other
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- Location
- England, UK
- Brief description of type
- Routledge
- Open access status
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- Month
- November
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This multi-component output presents a methodology for commissioning public art within a regeneration context. Through critical reflection upon the activities of In Certain Places (ICP) – a curatorial research project, which I co-curate in the City of Preston – during the years following the global economic crisis of 2007/8, it makes the case for a model of public art commissioning, which instigates change through long-term and situated engagement with a place.
The two components – a book chapter, Listening In Certain Places and co-authored journal article, (Re)Making Public Campus Art (see Documentation for Assessment section) – were informed by research undertaken in 2014. This involved the evaluation of 20 public artworks, which formed the content of Subplots to a City: 10 years of In Certain Places (STAC): a self-published book of documentation, interviews, and essays by leading public art researchers about the work of ICP (Contextual Documents section of Bibliography, no.1).
This research generated several insights about the scope for longitudinal public art projects to stimulate regenerative processes within a place, which are developed through the outputs. Component 1 draws on the initial research to develop the concept of ‘place listening’ as an approach to public art commissioning, predicated upon sustained and embodied engagement with a place. Component 2 focuses on the strengths and limitations of public art as a method for enhancing the relationship between university campuses and their surrounding communities, with a focus on five projects that I curated as part of ICP between 2014 and 2016 (Contextual Documents section of Bibliography, no.4).
I have presented this research at conferences organised by the American Association of Geographers, Association of Spanish Geographers and Arts Council of England, and through keynote talks for Newlyn Art Gallery, the Contemporary Visual Arts Network and Concordia University, Montreal, amongst others (see Bibliography).
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