Projects by Organisation: The Basement Group
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.
The Elsdon Mystery, 1983 John Kippin
A "thriller" movie which asks questions about the communicative possibilities of visual information.
Read moreA Deliberate Case of Particulars, 1983 Silvia Ziranek
A performance in the Pizzaland restaurant Newcastle upon Tyne
Read moreSensible Shoes, 1983 John Adams
Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives.
Read moreMainbeam, 1983 Charlie Hooker
Mainbeam - a ballet for vehicles - was a performance carried out at night in the Trinity Square Multi-storey car park in Gateshead.
Read moreBob and Jill (pt. 2), 1982 John Adams
In Bob and Jill (Pt. 2), the relation between fact and fiction in the personal and popular narratives of everyday life is rendered in an assemblage of soap opera conventions, performance and documentary
Read moreThree Real Things, 1982 Richard Grayson
Three Real Things, a film by Richard Grayson was originally part of The Basement Group Showreel produced in 1983.
Read moreTwenty Four Hours, 1981 Alastair MacLennan
A performance in which the artist walked from midnight to midnight continuously in a circle through a square divided in two halves, one half black paint, the other white flour.
Read moreLook No Body!, 1981 Mona Hatoum
Read moreAction at a Distance, 1980 Bruce McLean
A performance at the Basement, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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