MORE PUBLIC WORKS
public works as part of BRITISH ART SHOW 06

As part of the BAS 6 public works is revisiting and extending four projects they have been involved with in Newcastle, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.

more public works provides an archive and work station for public works within BAS 6. It is a presentation space for earlier projects and the networks attached to them. It is a work space to extend and initiate projects and networks on site. And it is a public platform for current debate concerned with art and architectural practice. The set up will change continuously over the one year duration of BAS 6, and the ongoing activities and discussions become part of more public works.

The basic structure for the more public works project is: one city, one existing project, one new on-site project and one related subject. The four projects in the four locations are of different scale and context.
In Newcastle public works are extending their Future Gallery Project for Siemens and address the wider issue of Art and Business and their interest in corporate space as social space and individual versus corporate identity.

In Manchester public works are revisiting a research work called Boot Rules which was part of the international Shrinking Cities project in 2004. The on-site project is going to be about Local Knowledge and its relationship with non-local networks.
Nottingham is soon to get a new regional art space, the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (CCAN). public works is proposing to look at the relationship between Art and Architecture, both in terms of art production in relation to buildings, and art practice in relation to architectural procedures.

public works have been involved in a number of projects in Bristol between 2002 and 2004. We’ re going to focus on Spacemakers, a public space design project for young people, that raises general issues of Participation in Design and the everyday appropriation of public spaces.