Get out of here! Go! Run! You Freak!
Found in the archives and oddly prescient: An early essay by Maddie Leach in which she was beginning to explore 'monstrousness' and public sculpture.…
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.…
Lisa Le Feuvre on Failure, Desire, and Rumour: the eternal lives of outdoor sculpture
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.…
Symposium snapshots: Fountains Failures Futures
Some pictures and highlights of 'Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art' – a free symposium held in Lund 28-30 September 2023.…
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”.…
Thomasson on campus?
PDF download. In this text, some similarities, but also differences, are introduced between the LTH Fountain and the urban objects known as 'Hyperart Thomasson'.…