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'.…
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.…