Special Issue Call for Papers 'Afterlives of Public Art'

Deadline for abstracts: 4 November 2024 More details at Art & the Public Sphere. (Scroll the 'Call for Papers' tab) We invite submissions for the upcoming Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere published by Intellect Books on ‘Afterlives of Public Art’.  Edited by Cathryn Klasto, Maddie…

Dan Karlholm on Re-sourcing the LTH Fountain

Listen to Dan Karlholm speak at Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art – a symposium in Lund, 28-30 September 2023. Dan is a writer, art historian & Professor at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He researches the historiography of art, temporality, and effects of the Anthropocene.…

Jes Fernie on 'Cracks and how to deal with them'

Listen to Jes Fernie speak at Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art – a public symposium in Lund, 28-30 September 2023. In 2021 Jes launched the Archive of Destruction, exploring narratives around public sculpture that have been destroyed by rage, boredom, fear, greed, and love.…

The LTH Fountain and the anti-normal condition

PDF download. "Arguably the Fountain has defied cultural custodian norms; it is unashamedly refusing to die. Here lies a necrotic object, without a vital (blood) water supply it exists perpetually with one steel foot in the grave, a zombie..."…

"Fail Your Rubblish Art!"

PDF download. Mick Wilson explores different tropes of failure within the context of a research project on public art: “The Fountain: An art-technological-social drama”.…