"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”.…
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 relation…
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…
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 "Collaboration…
Formas awards funding for Gestaltad livsmiljö / Designed living environment
October 20, 2020: "Ten projects will receive funding from Formas and the Swedish Arts Council's investment in research into the designed living environment. The research projects, which address the value of architecture, form, design, cultural environment and art in the development of society, will share a total of SEK 40…