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'.…
The monstrous Fontana di Träti
PDF download. This text reflects on two photographs, taken a decade apart, for the purpose of briefly unfolding the story of the LTH Fountain as an object of love and loathing.…
Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art
A free public symposium in Lund, Sweden, 28 & 29 September 2023. More details and registration HERE Research and discussion about public art frequently focuses on conditions of emergence and production for public works. Fountains Failures Futures starts at the other end – thinking about the afterlives of public art in…
Att hämta vatten / to fetch water
A paper presented at the public session 'Engaging with Place: Ruin, Memory, Regeneration' for The Curatorial Thing: Audacious Landscapes, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 October 2022. Organised by the SixtyEight Art Institute. The focus of my contribution to Audacious Landscapes[1] is a research project named The fountain: An art-technological-social…
Call for contributions – Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art
We are delighted to announce a call for contributions to a symposium which will be held 28-30 September 2023, in Lund, Sweden. Research and discussion of public art frequently focuses on conditions of emergence and production for public works. This symposium starts at the other end—thinking about the afterlives…
Life-affirming strangeness
Curator Jes Fernie describes her Archive of Destruction as "a story-telling platform that brings together narratives around destruction and public art...made up of suspect categories, barely believable tales, and life-affirming strangeness. Spanning a hundred years and many continents, it tells cumulative stories of vulnerability, interference, rage, fear, boredom…
The Fountain Gate
Before visiting the university campus at Lund, I had seen LTH-fontänen in the images that Maddie had assembled over the last two years or so, from various sources. Most particularly, I had retained in my mind’s eye those low-resolution images from newspaper clippings that show the fountain in its…
The fountain Fontänen (Heartbreaker)
We made this video clip to show to audiences in two online events this week. On 27 January, Maddie and Mick presented The Fountain project for the annual Research Day at HDK-Valand Academy of Art & Design. Earlier in the week Maddie spoke as part of a panel focused on…