Projects by Organisation: Locus+
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 Underworld, 2004 Mark Wallinger
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Show Home, 2003 Nathan Coley
Show Home is a temporary public art work that addresses the aspirations of home buying and associated lifestyle packages.
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Heat Signature, 2003 Gary Perkins
An interactive installation using heat and thermal imaging technology to recreate Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Freidrich.
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Escape Routine, 2002 Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson, Escape Routine. 2002
A commissioned film that focuses on the in-flight safety demonstrations enacted by flight attendants.
Scratching the Surface, 2001 Catherine Bertola
For the work Scratching the Surface Bertola engraved a traditional decorative pattern into the exterior wall of a once-domestic, now-commercial building.
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Babel's Folly, 2001 Tanya Axford
Babel's Folly crams a former department store space with thousands of rolls of domestic wallpaper pulled into teetering pillars.
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Fruitbody, 2001 Jo Coupe
For the work Fruitbody, Coupe turned a warehouse into an incubating environment to reproduce graffiti tags (signatures) found in the city, from mould.
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Echo, 2000 Wendy Kirkup
Using advanced Siemens Panoramic Ultrasound equipment a journey through the artist's body was broadcast simultaneously via satellite at two locations.
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Landskip, 2000 Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson, Landskip. 2000
Commissioned as part of the pre-opening season at Compton Verney.
