PASW Regional Newsletter: Spring 2001
Regional Projects - Bristol Legible City - Walkie-Talkie
Artist Colin Pearce and artist poet Ralph Hoyt have been commissioned to create a launch artwork to mark the implementation of an integrated pedestrian signage system. The signage is one aspect of a unique concept to improve peoples understanding and experience of the city through identity, information and transportation projects, integrating artists' work. It is an initiative of the City Council and its partners.
Walkie Talkie will thread its way across Millennium Square,
'At-Bristol', and other spaces and buildings across the city
during February and March, 2001.
It is proposed to temporarily introduce a poetic parallel information source taking the form of long threads of text (pavement graphic) which have been created especially for the project. Seen on various surfaces (between February and March 2001) they will contain a number of historical and contemporary themes as well as fragments of poetry and overheard conversation. Walkie Talkie will begin a physical and conceptual dialogue with the fabric of the city making audible the voices and stories that often go heard.
Fashion Architecture and Taste (FAT), the Legible City lead artist, are currently collaborating with a multi disciplinary design team investigating 'identity for integrated transport' and interventions along the 'Blue Route' pedestrian network linking Temple Meads to Harbourside.
For more information : City ID, BLC Project Coordinators
Tel: 0117 910 5200