We are delighted to announce the launch of Maddie Leach's book The Fountain: A Biography on Saturday 12 December, 3-5pm at Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden. There will also be a screening of Lars-Henrik Ståhl's short film about the LTH fountain titled Strikeout. ‘Laxtrappan’
We are delighted to announce the publication of our special DOUBLE issue of Art & the Public Sphere journal with Intellect Discover. 'AFTERLIVES OF PUBLIC ART' Edited by Maddie Leach, Cathryn Klasto & Mick Wilson This Special Issue builds on the international symposium Fountains, Failures, Futures: The Afterlives
Keywords: public art, architectural research, experimental writing, subject-object, ethics. We are pleased to share Cathryn Klasto's essay, first published in the journal COTAA (Collection of Texts about Architecture) in 2024. " Some say the LTH Fountain is a disgraced emblem of design, a tragic victim of technological,
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
Found in the archives and oddly prescient: An early essay by Maddie Leach in which she was beginning to explore 'monstrousness' and public sculpture.
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.
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.
Listen to Lisa Le Feuvre speak at Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art – a symposium in Lund, 28-30 September 2023. Lisa is a curator, writer, and editor. She is the inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Some pictures and highlights of 'Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art' – a free symposium held in Lund 28-30 September 2023.
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..."
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”.
PDF download. In this text, some similarities, but also differences, are introduced between the LTH Fountain and the urban objects known as 'Hyperart Thomasson'.