Awards: Round One, November 2004: Habitation, Environment, Community
Project Update, 01 March 2006
Panel Discussion & Launch of the New Thinking in Public
Art series (see below)
Tate Britain
29 March 2006, 18.30 - 20.00
Prebooking required (£7 or £4 concessions) - Call 0207 88778888 or visit www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks
New Thinking in Public Art: Habitat/Community/Environment
Three new publications will be published by ixia and Article Press on 29 March 2006:
As big as a house by Richard Woods
ISBN 1873352395
For this publication, Richard Woods has developed his first book-based
artwork that maps urban habitats, examining branding and vernacular
landuages within cities and towns. It also contains an interview with
the artist, and an essay, The Manufacturing of Authenticity, by Sarah
Chaplin and Eric Holding, which highlights the architectural and cultlural
contrivance at work in creating new city identities.
If you can't find it, give us a ring by Public Works
ISBN 1873352298
Public Works revisit the project Park Products and take up the theme
of commuity by exploring the space of networks and, in particular, the
informality of networks found in institutions and public space. The
book contains an interview with Andreas Lang and Kathrin Bohm of Public
Works and an essay by Diona Petrscu, Working towards a real public space
, addressing the theme of community.
Collective Space by Lucy and Jorge Orta
ISBN 1873352344
This book explores the concept of neighbourhoods and furthers the the
interest of these two artists in the street as an envirionment where
social exchange takes place. It addresses Lucy and Jorge Orta's staging
of public dinner parties as participatory installations and also contains
an interview with Lucy Orta, and the essay, Retro-fitting the corporate
city: five principes for urban survival , by Paul Chatterton on the
theme of environment.
Price: £6.99 each inc. P+P, or purchase all three titles for
£17.00 (inc. P+P), a saving of £4.
Available from www.centralbooks.com
or from bookshops.
Habitation, Environment, Community
a new publication series exploring arts practice and the public realm
UK and wider distribution
Client
ixia
Artists
Kathrin Boehm
Lucy Orta
Richard Woods
Project partners
ixia
Article Press
University of Central England
PROJECT Award
Talking Artists Award £4,500
Value of design/publication phase
£50,000
Project description
A partnership between Article Press at the University of Central England
and ixia, previously known as Public Art Forum, aims to publish three
publications addressing themes of Environment, Community and Habitation.
The publications will explore links between arts practice and the public
realm and consider urbanism, architecture, ecology, geography, economic
development, social sciences and target academics, practitioners and
policy makers. The PROJECT award will enable three
artists to guest edit one of the three publications. An Editorial Working
Group will consist of representatives of ixia, the University of Central
England, Article Press and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The project is
also supported by an Advisory Board comprising artists, architects,
lecturers and curators form the UK, Europe and the USA.
Further details
Andrew Knight, Editorial Working Group, c/o ixia, 1st Floor, 321 Bradford
Street, Birmingham B5 6ET.
Tel: 0121 622 4222; Email: [email protected]