Playing Up - a-n The Artists Information Company

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Remember What Jack Said

The current interest in artist/architect collaborations seems to date back to the late 1970s when architect Richard Hobbs invited artists into the design process for the Viewlands-Hoffman electrical substation in Seattle.

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The Homerton Playscape Multiple Struggle Niche
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Playing up

Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.

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Playing up
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Playing up

Focusing on public art, a-n Editor Gillian Nicol has selected key texts from a-n’s archive and other important sources. Her introductory essay explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm. It identifies […]

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Pockets of disorder: The history of adventure play

Adventure playgrounds, or junk playgrounds, as they were known, began life as occupied building sites, wastelands and bombsites that had been colonised by city children looking for interesting and adaptable spaces in which they could play in relative privacy away from adults.

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Voyager
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Dalziel + Scullion

Jane Watt talks to Dalziel + Scullion about their collaborative practice, unusual studio set up and processes involved in their commission for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

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Space Place
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PACE

Jane Watt profiles PACE, public art commissioning agent for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

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Zero Genie
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In it for the duration

Paul Glinkowski talks to artist Jem Finer about his ongoing project Longplayer, and to his collaborator James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel.

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Notes to Myself (Footnotes to the City)
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A very public affair

For the final article in this series Jane Watt asks artists and commissioners about their involvement in current innovative projects.

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Lie of the Land
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Back to school

Jane Watt profiles collaborations between artists and architects at two newly built schools, in the third of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.

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Spacecampaign 2001
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Space campaigns and living work

Lars Bang Larsen’s discussion of visual art extends beyond new sites and contexts to ask questions of how art meets the idealogical spaces of politics and mass media – and how behaviour has become aesthetic.

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Dale Primary School
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Muf

David Redhead profiles Muf, a collaborative practice of art and architecture committed to public realm projects, exploring its manifesto, projects and modes of collaborative working.

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Royal Court Theatre view from Sloane Square
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Architectural dialogues

Jes Fernie reveals the process of enquiry that challenges collaborations between artists and architects.

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