Projects by Year

1996 Jan Wade & Vanessa Richards, Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn

A site-specific performance installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the last English slaving port and Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, the birthplace of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce

1996 Steve Farrer, The Cinema of Machines

The Cinema of Machines, explored both the history of cinema and the artist's own history

1996 Richard Wilson, The Joint's Jumping

A proposal for the Baltic Flour Mill in Gateshead prior to the opening of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

1996 Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Nach Chernobyl

In 1986 Hesse-Honegger began to document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, making studies of insects affected by the radiation plume that spread across Europe.

1996 Stefan Gec, Buoy

A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)

1996 Shane Cullen, Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV

The work consists of ninety-six large tablet like panels onto which the artist has transcribed meticulously in paint the contents of numerous 'Comms'; the written communications smuggled in and out of H-Blocks during the hunger strikes.

1995 Alan Moore, The Birth Caul

A performance monologue by comic book writer Alan Moore, in collaboration with composer David J (of pop group Bauhaus) and musician Tim Perkins.

1995 Philip Napier, Sovereign

A videotape and video installation produced during a residency by Belfast artist Philip Napier in Vancouver, Canada.

1995 Ian Breakwell, Hidden Cities

1995 Stefan Gec, Natural History

Six large black and white photographic portraits of the first six firemen who died trying to contain the fire within the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.