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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 issues for the artists and arts professionals participating and raises concerns regarding our collective experience of public space.
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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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Publication in html, a-n Collections March 2007
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. Read on…
Publication in html, City Projects 2005. Republished: a-n Collections March 2007
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. Read on…
Publication in html, Public Art South West 2004. Republished: a-n Collections March 2007
Stimulating the senses in the public realm
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed. Read on…
Publication in html, CABE 2005. Republished: a-n Collections March 2007
Features
A very public affair
For the final article in this series Jane Watt asks artists and commissioners about their involvement in current innovative projects. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine May 2004
Architectural dialogues
Jes Fernie reveals the process of enquiry that challenges collaborations between artists and architects. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine January 2003
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'. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine November 2003
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. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine July 2004
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. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2003
The games artists play
Sally O'Reilly pursues the free-for-all ethos of gaming. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine November 2002
Profiles
Profiles: artists
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. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk November 2004
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