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Recollections from the future
Resource Profile

Jane Bailey

In summer 2003 I took part in Excavate Overlay, a multi-disciplinary project involving artists, a writer/ anthropologist, archaeologists and members of a rural community in Caithness, Scotland.

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Urban Planet
Resource Archive News archive

Art and time

An exhibition of prisoners’ work selected by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane launches a new exhibition space at HMP Leyhill’s Tortworth Visitor Centre. Leyhill, near Bristol, intends to be a flagship organisation for other centres in the prison network, with […]

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It's an East End Knockout
Resource Archive Feature

All the fun of the fair

Organised by artists in east London,’Roman Road Revel’ was a village fête with a difference. Lucy Wilson reports on this and other artists-led projects that appropriate traditional community fairs and festivals.

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residency workshop
Resource Archive Feature

Private musings: public projections

Jane Watt looks at artists and commissioners who are redefining what it means to work in the ‘public region’, in the second of the six-part series ‘Navigating Places’.

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Military road sign, Arizona Market
Resource Archive Feature

Road map

Dany Louise reports on the Urban Ecologies seminar in Liverpool, and highlights recent projects which have successfully engaged with urban issues whilst balancing artistic aims and community involvement.

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And Then
Resource Profile

Maria Wilson

Maria Wilson shares her experience of working at Maesgwyn Special School as part of Opt for Art, a project funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

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Moulded
Resource Archive Feature

Down on the farm

Artist-run Temple Arts Group (TAG) is based in Bethnal Green, east London. The six members – James Dean, Samantha Denny, Helena Koumbouzis, Rebecca Odgers, Kate Williams and myself – are all practising artists from a variety of disciplines including sculpture, […]

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Spare Time Job Centre
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Gallery employment

Since 29 January, London’s Chisenhale Gallery has been transformed into a fully functioning employment agency, one that caters only for spare time positions. Ella Gibbs’ project is a new commission for Chisenhale and is based on a standard job centre, […]

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Spacecampaign 2001
Resource Archive Feature

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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A project run by Tin Productions (Dance development) and a Creative Partnership school in County Durham
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Creative partnerships

£40 million was awarded to the development of Creative Partnerships through the Arts Council of England as part of the Government’s 2000 Comprehensive Spending Review. The two-year pilot programme that began in April 2002 will run to March 2004. The […]

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The Battle of Orgreave
Resource Introduction

Engaged practice

Susan Jones explores the way artists interact with audiences through projects and schemes which involve social or environmental contexts.

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Untitled
Resource Profile

Business index

Carey Young provides a guide to engaging with businesses and in business contexts.

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I Need to Know
Resource Profile

Soda@Pfizer

Neal White, a member of Soda, shares the groups experience of undertaking a residency at the pharmaceuticals company Pfizer.

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sciis [sensitive cumulative intellegent immersive systems]
Resource Profile

Michael Atavar

Michael Atavar talks about the ups and downs of his experience as artist-in-residence at The Guardian.

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Away-Weekend
Resource Profile

Anna Best

Su Jones explores Anna Best’s 2001 National Media residency for Year of the Artist here at a-n The Artists’ Information Company.

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image from New Audiences programme run by Littoral
Resource Profile

Littoral

This profile looks at the activities of Littoral, an arts trust promoting new creative partnerships, critical art practices and cultural strategies in response to issues about social, environmental and economic change.

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Untitled
Resource Guide

Residencies in business

Lucy Kimbell outlines some issues that can arise from residencies in business settings and should be resolved in advance.

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sciis [sensitive cumulative intellegent immersive systems]
Resource Introduction

Artists & businesses

Lucy Kimbell looks at how artists and arts organisations can work with businesses and the pros and cons of such collaborations.

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The Forest and The Forester (after Maeterlinck)
Resource Profile

Grizedale Arts

Jane Watt profiles Grizedale Arts, its residency programme and focus on research and process-based work that encourages interaction with the physical and social environment.

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the encircling shadow
Resource Profile

AHRC Fellowship

Mark Leahy on Rona Lee’s fellowship at the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway University, London where she was in receipt of an AHRC Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts.

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Dale Primary School
Resource Profile

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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