"IF YOU CAN T FIND IT, GIVE US A RING"
public works publication by IXIA

If you can’t find it, give us a ring is a reoccurring quote from Park Products, a project commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, which took place in and around Kensington Gardens, London.
In the publication, public works revisit the project and take up the theme of community by exploring the space of networks and, in particular, the informality of networks found in institutions and public space. The book contains an interview with Andreas Land & Kathrin Böhm of public works and an essay by Doina Petrescu, "Working towards a real public space".

If you can’t find it, give us a ring refers to many of the spaces have been used during the whole project, from hidden garden sheds to tucked away offices and private flats to the roaming mobile stall. The publication refers to Park Products as a spatial construct, which is spread across sites, time and memories. The description and acknowledgement of this space is important to us in regards to a wider discussion about the making of public space, which often focuses on permanent built structures as a possible outcome.
"If you can’t find it, give us a ring" is part of "The New Thinking in Public Art" series, initiated by IXIA, which explores the increased integration of artists into regeneration practices. With each volume in this three part series - habitat, community and environment - an artist or group, for whom working within the public arena is the raison d’être for their work, has been commissioned to produce a new art project.

ISBN 1 873352 29 8

To download a pdf of the artist pages
from the publication click here (6MB)

To download a pdf of the park products
book please click here (2.5MB)