Projects by Organisation: Projects UK
The Locus+ Archive (incorporating material from the Basement Group and Projects UK) hosted at the University of Sunderland currently has two PhD posts affiliated to it and is the largest archive of time-based work in Europe. It forms a comprehensive historical overview of contemporary art practice from the early '70s to the present, covering artists' projects from a variety of British and international contexts. Here is a snapshot of the projects that have been digitized to date.
Intellectual Properties, 1986 John Adams
This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.
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The Touring Exhibitionists, 1984 Alastair MacLennan
The Touring Exhibitionists was the first project travelling solely under the Projects UK banner. A select group of performance artists toured the country in a coach playing a various venues.
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Breaks on the Bridge, 1983 Bruce McLean
A performance featuring the Whickam Synchronettes - a local group of synchronised swimmers in the Elswick Swimming pool.
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