Production of: Foghorn Requiem

Richard Hollinshead was invited by the National Trust to develop a high-profile temporary artwork for Souter Lighthouse, South Shields. In response to this opportunity he developed an Artists’ Brief and curated a proposal by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway. Their proposal Foghorn Requiem became a major site-specific project, and on June 22nd 2013 more than 50 ships gathered on the North Sea to perform an ambitious musical score by composer Orlando Gough, marking the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. Specially tuned shipshorns and air supply systems installed on those vessels were accompanied by the Foghorn at Souter and three Championship-level brass bands, and Foghorn Requiem was performed to an audience of 8000

A monument to whom? Artist positionality in community art-based projects

Artistic interventions in the public domain are often legitimized as opportunities for the empowerment of local communities. However, the nature of such interventions is complex and cannot be inferred from stated intentions. The interaction between agents of cultural and artistic interventions and local communities is shaped by power relationships that are seldom made explicit, let alone negotiated. Here, we analyze The Gramsci Monument, a site-specific project by Thomas Hirschhorn that took place in the Forest House neighborhood (Bronx, New York) in 2013. The project has been celebrated as an example of an emancipatory practice that involved a disenfranchised local community. We show that it could be rather taken as an example of how art-driven space domestication may lead to forms of alienation and paternalism without actual sharing of creative responsibility and negotiation with the local community. We analyze the implications of this practice through a conceptual framework of artist positionality and deontological responsibility of artistic agency

Assembly Exhibition Catalogue

This publication contains an overview of the site-specific project Assembly: at Brick Lane Mosque. Julie Marsh writes about the working methodology 'site-integrity' and the collaborative making of the artworks via a series of photographic plates. It concludes with essays by Dervla Zaynab Shannahan and Naima Khan (inclusive Mosque initiative) and Matt Webber (social anthropologist from SOAS)

Le répertoire des publications en art contemporain canadien : N° 18-19 = The Directory of Publications on Canadian Contemporary Art : N° 18-19

This Directory provides information (bibliographical data and abstracts) on the 1014 documents that were added to Artexte Information Centre’s collection between 1999 and 2001. It also includes a poetic essay by S. Horne, documentation of a site-specific project by artists Doyon/Demers, numerous indexes (artists, authors, publishers), and a list of Canadian periodicals available for consultation. Texts in French and English. 16 bibl. ref