Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “ Quote quote quote Future Funding Situations is two years old quote quote quote Project Curator. Claire Doherty Situations’ fi rst two-year programme will conclude Situations 2003-5 was funded by Arts Council England, Launched in October 2003 as a research and Projects Assistant. Carolyn Black with the launch of the new book documenting Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Bristol commissioning programme, Situations set out to Picture This. Josephine Lanyon, Andy Moss, Thinking of the Outside on Tuesday 6 December 2005 Legible City, Bristol City Council (as part of Creative commission new art in Bristol within a context of critical Anja Musiat, Afshan Javed, Jane Connarty at the Arnolfi ni. The book offers critical analysis and Bristol), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore debate and discussion. It considered place as an interviews with the commissioned artists. Contributors Foundation, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Rokeagle, impetus, hindrance, inspiration and research subject Installation Co-ordinator. Scott Martin quote quote quote include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson, South West Screen and the University of the West of for the process of making art. Installation crew. Rob Anderson, Chris Barr, Roy Black, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, England, Bristol. Colin Brown, Kieran Brown, Charles Farina, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson with drawings by This review summarises the programme’s diverse and Alex LeFeuvre, Jerry Ortmans, Seamus Staunton Joff Winterhart. cumulative impact to date through its distinct components: an international lecture series, informal Invigilation Co-ordinator. Lucy Badrocke quote quote or The launch will be held in association with the screening workshops and three-day conference, print and online Assistant to Phil Collins. Nim-Jo Chung of Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go publishing, curating archive tour and a major scattered- Invigilation Team. Barbara Ash, Christopher Barr, as part of the Commotion screening programme Supported by site exhibition of new art in Bristol. Vera Boele-Keimer, Jess Brand, Chloe Brooks, organised by Picture This. Bristol Legible City Susannah Claiden, Ashley Dando, Amy Feneck, Throughout these activities, we have heard about Karen Di Franco, Hannah Godfrey, Gemma Haynes, Situations’ next two-year programme will commence spectacular re-enactments and quiet interventions, Gillian Hemmings, Toby Huddlestone, Tom Johnson, picture picture in January 2006. collaborations and deceptions, memorials and Lady Lucy, Alex Le Feuvre, Donna Lobb, Winnie Love, prophecies. We’ve accompanied artists to the depths Kerry Mead, Emma Myers, Lizi Sanchez, Subscribe to the Situations mailing list at of the River Avon and the heights of a teen pop . 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Student Placements. Harriet Godwin (University of Bristol), Katherine Daley-Yates, Mark Coleman, picture picture?” Karen Stevens, Donna Lobb, Gemma Haynes, Gillian Hemmings (University of the West of England)

Education programme co-ordinated by Arnolfi ni Lead artist. Frances Bossom Artist. Joff Winterhart

Talks Co-ordinator. Beth Alden PR campaign. Fripp PR Design campaign and website. John and Orna Designs

Visitor to the installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive in Bournville, Birmingham “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. “ The distinctive character Talking “ All my work proceeds from Writing “ Contemporary Art: From Parachuting “ Is being in the wrong place, of Situations lies in its International lecture series the studio’s extinction.” Book and online papers Studio to Situation offers a The Wrong Place conference a getting lost activity or contribution to ideas.” Daniel Buren useful critique and (fi eld) is getting lost really a guide to future developments good thing?” Paul O’Neill

Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go premieres at the in what is a hotly contested Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, produced and commissioned Orange Ashton Court Festival Kathrin Böhm and public works, Mobile Porch, 2003 Orange Ashton Court Festival by Artangel, 2001. Photo: Martin Jenkinson Our primary partners to date have been Arnolfi ni, Bristol Many of the artists introduce themselves to a given fi eld of art practice.” Flash Art Artist Jason E. Bowman’s Untitled (The Theory of Legible City and Picture This, whilst collaborators have situation through conversation (Becky Shaw, Kathrin Parachuting) seminar kicked off the three-day also included Black Dog Publishing, The Cube Cinema, Böhm) or merge into daily activities (Rosalind Nashash- conference in the expansive space of Cameron Dartington College of Arts, The Royal College of Art, ibi, Adam Dant, Mejor Vida Corp, Richard Wentworth), Balloon Factory. A military paratrooper, physiotherapist London, R O O M and Spike Island in Bristol. or become residents (Oda Projesi, Thomas Hirschhorn). and base-jumper led the audience through the physi- cal and psychological effects of parachuting. ‘Freefall’, Thanks to the support and commitment of those Though the curator’s role has shifted from custodian a fl eeting moment of exhilaration, freedom and terror, partners, the programme has offered opportunities to producer, their duty of care to support the ways in became an apt metaphor for discussion of the creative for audiences to hear from and read about the work of which an artist might respond to place or embed process as the conference relocated to Bristol Zoo. internationally acclaimed artists, critics and curators, themselves within it remains just as important. Much to see behind the scenes of art making and commis- of the encounter between the local and international Taking Miwon Kwon’s theorisation of place in her sioning. Two years of presentations, anecdotes, analysis, has to do with what curator Catherine David termed signifi cant study One Place After Another: Site-Specifi c heated discussion and new propositions concluded “cumulative experience and slow learning Art and Locational Identity, the presentations and with an exhibition of new work for Bristol, Thinking of of differences”. conversations balanced critical analysis with artists’ the Outside. case studies, bringing together leading scholars, artists 20 lectures took place between October 2003 and and curators to rethink the notion of context in We’ve involved over 10,000 people, published 80,000 Whilst their strategies were disparate, with outcomes Work on the fi rst publication for Situations began with Contributors to the book included Kathrin Böhm, The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art The challenge for the programme has always been to November 2004 at Bristol University. The series was contemporary art. Kwon suggests, “The wrong place words and talked for over 7,000 minutes. We can look ranging from an infl atable plane in a perpetual state the lecture transcripts, to which new interviews and Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam was organised by Situations in association with Arnolfi ni attain the intellectual rigor demanded of an academic produced in association with Arnolfi ni as part of is generally thought of as a place where one feels one to statistics to give a feel for the dimension of the work of landing to a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah, case studies were added alongside existing essays. Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, and Bristol Legible City and hosted at Bristol Zoo on 3, 4, research programme and the artistic integrity of a their Interlude programme and associated informal does not belong: unfamiliar, disorientating, undertaken, to give form to a programme without walls; one common characteristic can be identifi ed between The introductory section of the book traces the Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER and 5 February 2005. visual arts commissioning agency, whilst attracting workshops with the speakers were hosted by R O O M. destabilising, even threatening.” But what curators yet, the distinctive character of Situations lies not simply the 22 speakers of the international lecture development of a critical language for ‘situated’ art Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon non-specialist audiences to its work. Situations will Okwui Enwezor and Lu Jie revealed was the possibility in potential breadth of its activities and research, but in series: resistance. practice from public art, through site-specifi city Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Contributors to the conference included Jason E. Bowman, continue to strive for this balance, questioning not Contributors included Carlos Basualdo, Kathrin Böhm, that a sense of the ‘wrong place’ could expose the the depth of its content and in its contribution to ideas. to Relational Aesthetics. Medina, Mejor Vida Corp, Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Alex Coles, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Okwui Enwezor, only where we have been, but what we leave behind. Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Juan Cruz, instability of the ‘right place’, that large-scale Encountering situations (whether a set of circum- Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. Dan Hicks, Lu Jie, Declan McGonagle, Ewen McDonald, Minerva Cuevas, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Rod exhibitions such as Documenta or nomadic projects In 2001, when discussions began with Arnolfi ni as to the stances, physical location, historical narrative, group The interviews draw in new voices from digital media Cuauhtémoc Medina, Susan Norrie, Paul O’Neill Claire Doherty Dickinson, Jimmie Durham, Leo Fitzmaurice, Neville such as the Long March could advance an altogether feasibility of a scattered-site exhibition in Bristol, there of people or social agenda), these artists and cura- to art history and visual culture, whilst the case studies Following the Wrong Place conference, Situations and Mario Rizzi. Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Gabie, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maria Lind, Aleksandra Mir, different notion of a context or place as somewhere were few opportunities for the public to hear directly tors distinguish themselves from the tourist, the social focus on projects ranging from a residency programme Papers, a new on-line publishing facility of conference and Director of Situations Rosalind Nashashibi, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky or something constituted through social, economic, from artists or curators in the city, fewer artist-run worker or cultural geographer by resisting cliché. for artists and writers in a North Liverpool tower block papers and articles, was launched with an observer’s For a full programme see Shaw and Richard Wentworth. cultural and political processes. initiatives and more sporadic art commissioning outside Artists maintain that their status as artists allows them to the production of a daily pamphlet distributed to response to the three-day event by artist, curator and www.situations.org.uk/conference.html the gallery or museum. Some four years on, Situations to avoid predictability: Kathrin Böhm stated, “As an East Londoners over fi ve years. The book was published writer Paul O’Neill. The DVD archive of the series is available for viewing at Archaeologist Dan Hicks drew comparison between is part of a burgeoning dynamic visual arts ecology in artist you’re non-threatening, because no-one expects by Black Dog Publishing in association with Arnolfi ni the UWE Bower Ashton Library or by prior arrangement an artist’s encounter with place and the performative Bristol and its success owes much to the network of you to have power”; Jimmie Durham proposed, “I’m in November 2004. Copies can be ordered from Situations Papers can be downloaded free at in Arnolfi ni’s Reading Room. fi eldwork of archaeologists which “constitute broader, partnerships which have strengthened and sustained not an outsider or an insider.” bookshop@arnolfi ni.org.uk. www.situations.org.uk/publishing.html sometimes, messy, situations. A central task (for the level of activity over the past two years. Reading lists can be downloaded at contemporary artists) is to acknowledge materiality: the www.situations.org.uk/lecturesarchive.html vernacular, the textures, the things that matter”, whereby contexts are remade. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni. “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “Somewhere between Phil Collins, the louder you Audiences Finances People You, Them, Us and Me” scream, the faster we go, 2005 Paul O’Neill on his position (audio selection) as invited observer at the Situations conference Scott Martin installs work by Silke Otto-Knapp, May 2005 Situations Offi ce In June 2005, as part of Thinking of the Outside, artist Phil Situations attracted a range of people to its activities, Lecture attendance Situations has no on-going programming budget How the programme was funded Bristol School of Art, Media & Design Collins established a video production company Shady building on the existing constituencies for the visual arts nor revenue grant. All costs, including staff (except University of the West of England Lane Promotions in Bristol. Scouring the local music in Bristol, and bringing national and international visitors Artists a part-time Senior Research Fellowship), have to Grants Bush House scene and sending out an open call for unsigned music to the city. Artists/University staff be raised through fundraising and in-kind UWE in-kind support 72 Prince Street acts, Shady Lane Promotions selected three acts – Forest University staff partnership support. UWE funds Bristol BS1 4HN Giants, I Know I Have No Collar and François – from the Audiences for the lectures reached over 2500, with the Students Partner funds UK city-wide campaign and created pop promo videos for core audience drawn from Fine Art, Visual Culture and Curators In 2003–05, the University of the West of England Partner in-kind support them. The fi rst screening of the videos was at the Orange Fine Art in Context undergraduate and postgraduate Critics received grants totaling £101,271 towards directly Earned income Tel. +44 (0)117 328 1459 Ashton Court Music Festival on Saturday 16 July in the courses from Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Arts Organisations incurred costs for the Situations programme, contrib- Email. [email protected] Blackout Marquee. Locally and regionally based artists formed the next Local Authorities uting a further £27,313 in faculty grants and teaching www.situations.org.uk largest group. Students and staff from Wolverhampton Funders contributions and an estimate of £80,000 in-kind This selection of 10 tracks is taken from University, Bristol University, Bath Spa University College, support towards indirect costs such as overheads. Cover image. Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol over 30 submissions. University College Dublin, Dartington College of Arts, in preparation for Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings, May 2005. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Wales Institute Funds contributed by partners towards joint activities All photos by Jamie Woodley unless otherwise stated. I Know I Have No Collar...... Sleeptalking Cardiff, University of Bath, Plymouth University and totalled £176,800, whilst in-kind technical, administra- First Degree Burns...... Rootin’ and Lootin’ Manchester Metropolitan University also attended. tive, curatorial and marketing support from our partners Graphic design. Thirteen. www.thirteen.co.uk Conference attendance How the funds were spent Situations 2003–05 was supported by staff at the Bucky...... I am dark Arnolfi ni, Bristol Legible City and Picture This is University of the West of England, particularly Anne Figment...... The Chase By contrast, the sold-out conference attracted a smaller estimated at approximately £50,000. Earned income Conoley and Susan Matheron at the Projects Offi ce, Forest Giants...... Beards number of students, giving way to a larger number of arts Artists from ticket sales totaled just over £11,000. Speakers Professor Paul Gough, Mark Dunhill and the Fine Arts Fortune Drive...... Start to fi nish professionals and academics from across the UK, Ireland Artists/University staff New art works staff at Bristol School of Art, Media and Design. Betamaxx...... I think yr really and Israel, with 45% traveling from the South-West region. University staff Education/Interpretation François...... Il Stragniero Students Marketing The lecture series, conference and publication were Morning Star...... Sunbeam Thinking of the Outside attracted some 5,500 visits in six Curators Documentation produced in association with Arnolfi ni staff. The Cogs...... Hairstyle weeks, involving groups from the following: Art + Power; Critics Publishing and website curating archive was produced by Barnaby Drabble The School of Continuing Education, City of Bristol College, Arts Organisations Administration/Overheads and Dorothee Richter. With thanks to the contributing bands. Hartcliffe; YWCA, Bristol Young Women’s Centre; Refugee Local Authorities R&D Production assistant: Lucy Badrocke Action; RNID, Bath; CLASS and Barton Hill Writers and Funders Insurance Thinking of the Outside was commissioned by Bristol Funded by Bristol Legible City as part Photography Group. Legible City and Picture This in association with of Thinking of the Outside. Situations and involved the following individuals: Over 1000 visitors spent time in the curating archive during its visit to England, from those who came to Bristol City Council. browse for half an hour, to those who spent a full day Senior Public Art Offi cer. Jonathan Banks or more researching their interests. Archaeological Offi cer. Jon Brett “ Quote quote quote Future Funding Situations is two years old quote quote quote Project Curator. Claire Doherty Situations’ fi rst two-year programme will conclude Situations 2003-5 was funded by Arts Council England, Launched in October 2003 as a research and Projects Assistant. Carolyn Black with the launch of the new book documenting Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Bristol commissioning programme, Situations set out to Picture This. Josephine Lanyon, Andy Moss, Thinking of the Outside on Tuesday 6 December 2005 Legible City, Bristol City Council (as part of Creative commission new art in Bristol within a context of critical Anja Musiat, Afshan Javed, Jane Connarty at the Arnolfi ni. The book offers critical analysis and Bristol), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore debate and discussion. It considered place as an interviews with the commissioned artists. Contributors Foundation, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Rokeagle, impetus, hindrance, inspiration and research subject Installation Co-ordinator. Scott Martin quote quote quote include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson, South West Screen and the University of the West of for the process of making art. Installation crew. Rob Anderson, Chris Barr, Roy Black, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, England, Bristol. Colin Brown, Kieran Brown, Charles Farina, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson with drawings by This review summarises the programme’s diverse and Alex LeFeuvre, Jerry Ortmans, Seamus Staunton Joff Winterhart. cumulative impact to date through its distinct components: an international lecture series, informal Invigilation Co-ordinator. Lucy Badrocke quote quote or The launch will be held in association with the screening workshops and three-day conference, print and online Assistant to Phil Collins. Nim-Jo Chung of Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go publishing, curating archive tour and a major scattered- Invigilation Team. Barbara Ash, Christopher Barr, as part of the Commotion screening programme Supported by site exhibition of new art in Bristol. Vera Boele-Keimer, Jess Brand, Chloe Brooks, organised by Picture This. Bristol Legible City Susannah Claiden, Ashley Dando, Amy Feneck, Throughout these activities, we have heard about Karen Di Franco, Hannah Godfrey, Gemma Haynes, Situations’ next two-year programme will commence spectacular re-enactments and quiet interventions, Gillian Hemmings, Toby Huddlestone, Tom Johnson, picture picture in January 2006. collaborations and deceptions, memorials and Lady Lucy, Alex Le Feuvre, Donna Lobb, Winnie Love, prophecies. We’ve accompanied artists to the depths Kerry Mead, Emma Myers, Lizi Sanchez, Subscribe to the Situations mailing list at of the River Avon and the heights of a teen pop concert. Karen Stevens, Rosanna Traina www.situations.org.uk

Student Placements. Harriet Godwin (University of Bristol), Katherine Daley-Yates, Mark Coleman, picture picture?” Karen Stevens, Donna Lobb, Gemma Haynes, Gillian Hemmings (University of the West of England)

Education programme co-ordinated by Arnolfi ni Lead artist. Frances Bossom Artist. Joff Winterhart

Talks Co-ordinator. Beth Alden PR campaign. Fripp PR Design campaign and website. John and Orna Designs

Visitor to the installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive in Bournville, Birmingham “ Quote quote quote Future Funding Situations is two years old quote quote quote Project Curator. Claire Doherty Situations’ fi rst two-year programme will conclude Situations 2003-5 was funded by Arts Council England, Launched in October 2003 as a research and Projects Assistant. Carolyn Black with the launch of the new book documenting Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Bristol commissioning programme, Situations set out to Picture This. Josephine Lanyon, Andy Moss, Thinking of the Outside on Tuesday 6 December 2005 Legible City, Bristol City Council (as part of Creative commission new art in Bristol within a context of critical Anja Musiat, Afshan Javed, Jane Connarty at the Arnolfi ni. The book offers critical analysis and Bristol), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore debate and discussion. It considered place as an interviews with the commissioned artists. Contributors Foundation, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Rokeagle, impetus, hindrance, inspiration and research subject Installation Co-ordinator. Scott Martin quote quote quote include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson, South West Screen and the University of the West of for the process of making art. Installation crew. Rob Anderson, Chris Barr, Roy Black, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, England, Bristol. Colin Brown, Kieran Brown, Charles Farina, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson with drawings by This review summarises the programme’s diverse and Alex LeFeuvre, Jerry Ortmans, Seamus Staunton Joff Winterhart. cumulative impact to date through its distinct components: an international lecture series, informal Invigilation Co-ordinator. Lucy Badrocke quote quote or The launch will be held in association with the screening workshops and three-day conference, print and online Assistant to Phil Collins. Nim-Jo Chung of Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go publishing, curating archive tour and a major scattered- Invigilation Team. Barbara Ash, Christopher Barr, as part of the Commotion screening programme Supported by site exhibition of new art in Bristol. Vera Boele-Keimer, Jess Brand, Chloe Brooks, organised by Picture This. Bristol Legible City Susannah Claiden, Ashley Dando, Amy Feneck, Throughout these activities, we have heard about Karen Di Franco, Hannah Godfrey, Gemma Haynes, Situations’ next two-year programme will commence spectacular re-enactments and quiet interventions, Gillian Hemmings, Toby Huddlestone, Tom Johnson, picture picture in January 2006. collaborations and deceptions, memorials and Lady Lucy, Alex Le Feuvre, Donna Lobb, Winnie Love, prophecies. We’ve accompanied artists to the depths Kerry Mead, Emma Myers, Lizi Sanchez, Subscribe to the Situations mailing list at of the River Avon and the heights of a teen pop concert. Karen Stevens, Rosanna Traina www.situations.org.uk

Student Placements. Harriet Godwin (University of Bristol), Katherine Daley-Yates, Mark Coleman, picture picture?” Karen Stevens, Donna Lobb, Gemma Haynes, Gillian Hemmings (University of the West of England)

Education programme co-ordinated by Arnolfi ni Lead artist. Frances Bossom Artist. Joff Winterhart

Talks Co-ordinator. Beth Alden PR campaign. Fripp PR Design campaign and website. John and Orna Designs

Visitor to the installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive in Bournville, Birmingham “ Quote quote quote Future Funding Situations is two years old quote quote quote Project Curator. Claire Doherty Situations’ fi rst two-year programme will conclude Situations 2003-5 was funded by Arts Council England, Launched in October 2003 as a research and Projects Assistant. Carolyn Black with the launch of the new book documenting Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Bristol commissioning programme, Situations set out to Picture This. Josephine Lanyon, Andy Moss, Thinking of the Outside on Tuesday 6 December 2005 Legible City, Bristol City Council (as part of Creative commission new art in Bristol within a context of critical Anja Musiat, Afshan Javed, Jane Connarty at the Arnolfi ni. The book offers critical analysis and Bristol), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore debate and discussion. It considered place as an interviews with the commissioned artists. Contributors Foundation, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Rokeagle, impetus, hindrance, inspiration and research subject Installation Co-ordinator. Scott Martin quote quote quote include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson, South West Screen and the University of the West of for the process of making art. Installation crew. Rob Anderson, Chris Barr, Roy Black, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, England, Bristol. Colin Brown, Kieran Brown, Charles Farina, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson with drawings by This review summarises the programme’s diverse and Alex LeFeuvre, Jerry Ortmans, Seamus Staunton Joff Winterhart. cumulative impact to date through its distinct components: an international lecture series, informal Invigilation Co-ordinator. Lucy Badrocke quote quote or The launch will be held in association with the screening workshops and three-day conference, print and online Assistant to Phil Collins. Nim-Jo Chung of Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go publishing, curating archive tour and a major scattered- Invigilation Team. Barbara Ash, Christopher Barr, as part of the Commotion screening programme Supported by site exhibition of new art in Bristol. Vera Boele-Keimer, Jess Brand, Chloe Brooks, organised by Picture This. Bristol Legible City Susannah Claiden, Ashley Dando, Amy Feneck, Throughout these activities, we have heard about Karen Di Franco, Hannah Godfrey, Gemma Haynes, Situations’ next two-year programme will commence spectacular re-enactments and quiet interventions, Gillian Hemmings, Toby Huddlestone, Tom Johnson, picture picture in January 2006. collaborations and deceptions, memorials and Lady Lucy, Alex Le Feuvre, Donna Lobb, Winnie Love, prophecies. We’ve accompanied artists to the depths Kerry Mead, Emma Myers, Lizi Sanchez, Subscribe to the Situations mailing list at of the River Avon and the heights of a teen pop concert. Karen Stevens, Rosanna Traina www.situations.org.uk

Student Placements. Harriet Godwin (University of Bristol), Katherine Daley-Yates, Mark Coleman, picture picture?” Karen Stevens, Donna Lobb, Gemma Haynes, Gillian Hemmings (University of the West of England)

Education programme co-ordinated by Arnolfi ni Lead artist. Frances Bossom Artist. Joff Winterhart

Talks Co-ordinator. Beth Alden PR campaign. Fripp PR Design campaign and website. John and Orna Designs

Visitor to the installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive in Bournville, Birmingham “ Quote quote quote Future Funding Situations is two years old quote quote quote Project Curator. Claire Doherty Situations’ fi rst two-year programme will conclude Situations 2003-5 was funded by Arts Council England, Launched in October 2003 as a research and Projects Assistant. Carolyn Black with the launch of the new book documenting Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Bristol commissioning programme, Situations set out to Picture This. Josephine Lanyon, Andy Moss, Thinking of the Outside on Tuesday 6 December 2005 Legible City, Bristol City Council (as part of Creative commission new art in Bristol within a context of critical Anja Musiat, Afshan Javed, Jane Connarty at the Arnolfi ni. The book offers critical analysis and Bristol), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore debate and discussion. It considered place as an interviews with the commissioned artists. Contributors Foundation, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Rokeagle, impetus, hindrance, inspiration and research subject Installation Co-ordinator. Scott Martin quote quote quote include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson, South West Screen and the University of the West of for the process of making art. Installation crew. Rob Anderson, Chris Barr, Roy Black, Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, England, Bristol. Colin Brown, Kieran Brown, Charles Farina, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson with drawings by This review summarises the programme’s diverse and Alex LeFeuvre, Jerry Ortmans, Seamus Staunton Joff Winterhart. cumulative impact to date through its distinct components: an international lecture series, informal Invigilation Co-ordinator. Lucy Badrocke quote quote or The launch will be held in association with the screening workshops and three-day conference, print and online Assistant to Phil Collins. Nim-Jo Chung of Phil Collins’ the louder you scream, the faster we go publishing, curating archive tour and a major scattered- Invigilation Team. Barbara Ash, Christopher Barr, as part of the Commotion screening programme Supported by site exhibition of new art in Bristol. Vera Boele-Keimer, Jess Brand, Chloe Brooks, organised by Picture This. Bristol Legible City Susannah Claiden, Ashley Dando, Amy Feneck, Throughout these activities, we have heard about Karen Di Franco, Hannah Godfrey, Gemma Haynes, Situations’ next two-year programme will commence spectacular re-enactments and quiet interventions, Gillian Hemmings, Toby Huddlestone, Tom Johnson, picture picture in January 2006. collaborations and deceptions, memorials and Lady Lucy, Alex Le Feuvre, Donna Lobb, Winnie Love, prophecies. We’ve accompanied artists to the depths Kerry Mead, Emma Myers, Lizi Sanchez, Subscribe to the Situations mailing list at of the River Avon and the heights of a teen pop concert. Karen Stevens, Rosanna Traina www.situations.org.uk

Student Placements. Harriet Godwin (University of Bristol), Katherine Daley-Yates, Mark Coleman, picture picture?” Karen Stevens, Donna Lobb, Gemma Haynes, Gillian Hemmings (University of the West of England)

Education programme co-ordinated by Arnolfi ni Lead artist. Frances Bossom Artist. Joff Winterhart

Talks Co-ordinator. Beth Alden PR campaign. Fripp PR Design campaign and website. John and Orna Designs

Visitor to the installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive in Bournville, Birmingham Thinking “ Brace yourself for an “ Different, evocative, seeing Curating “ The fi rst initiative of its kind.” New art and the city of Bristol artistic adventure” Bristol from a different angle” Archive on tour Idea Magazine The Times Visitor

Filming for Joao Penalva’s The White Nightingale in progress, Curating. Installation of the Curating Degree Zero archive Nathan Coley, Iceman, in St. Johns Churchyard, Bristol, 2005 Clifton Suspension Bridge, April 2005 Kathleen Herbert, Grande Spagna in Huller Warehouse, Bristol, 2005 in at NGCA, Sunderland Tour itinerary. “ I was so long writing www.situations.org.uk Somewhere Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Spike Island, Bristol. Installation design and archive my review that I reinterpretation by Julian Claxton, Karen Di Franco, never got around to between You, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Toby Huddlestone, Laura Mansfi eld, Lizi Sanchez reading the book.” Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva and Daniel Stringer. Groucho Marx Them, Us International Project Space, University of Central and Me England, Bournville, Birmingham. Installation design and archive reinterpretation by Tim Brennan. Discussion event. ‘Curating and the Public Sphere’ Celebrate the launch Speakers. Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson of the new book and Kathrin Böhm. documenting Thinking of the Outside at Project Room at the Northern Gallery Arnolfi ni on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The commissioning and exhibition of artworks for “to respond to the city’s medieval walls”, was broad- in present and past: between the haunting cinematic A publication including the drawings, commissioned The Curating Degree Zero Archive, a unique collection for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Installation design and archive reinterpretation unexpected places is by no means new. Thinking of ened to “examine present-day boundaries, architecture Jewish stereotypes of Hiller’s video installation against essays in response to the works and interviews will be of documentation material, invites the public to explore www.situations.org.uk the Outside descends from a long line of scattered-site and attitudes that deal with the relationship between post 9/11 discrimination; in Otto-Knapp’s golden published in December 2005. Not the fi nal word, but a the possibilities of the exhibition form. Bringing together by Gavin Wade. exhibitions and biennales over the past two decades outsider and insider”. This brief gave the artists a landscapes against the regeneration of contemporary contribution to the ongoing programme of artistic material from over 80 international exhibition-makers, Discussion event. ‘Curating can be learned, inspired by the nature of place. These projects recog- starting point from which to begin their research and urban public spaces. responses to Bristol. with descriptions of over 600 exhibitions and experimen- but can it be taught?’ nise the potential of active encounters between artists encounters with Bristol (rather than a restrictive frame- tal art projects, the archive is a resource that aims to Speakers. Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, and cities, between the local and the international. work) and the fl exibility to develop their own interests. Catching the spirit of aspiration in the city, Phil Collins Thinking of the Outside. New art and the City of Bristol offer inspiration to artists, arts professionals and art- Barnaby Drabble and Stevan Vukovic. sent out an open call for unsigned music acts the artist was commissioned by Bristol Legible City and Picture lovers alike, and provoke discussion about what an In 2004, Situations was invited to curate a programme Though none of the works were site-specifi c, the selec- produced three promo videos which premiered at the This in association with Situations. The exhibition ran exhibition is, and what it might be. The Artspace at Imperial College and Discussion event of six new artworks for Bristol, entering into a tion and transformation of each of the fi ve scattered Orange Ashton Court Music Festival and will tour from 21 May to 3 July 2005. at Serpentine Gallery Installation design and archive commissioning partnership with Bristol Legible City, sites became an integral part of the project: Nathan internationally throughout 2005–06. Situations produced and managed the English tour of reinterpretation by Artlab, Jeanine Richards + the city’s public art and information programme, and Coley created a dominant temporary sculpture for a www.thinkingoftheoutside.com the archive between February and June 2005, helping Charlotte Cullinan. Picture This, a Bristol-based moving image projects disused Churchyard, João Penalva transformed an 18th The ‘front-of-house’ team, programme of talks and www.bristollegiblecity.info its founders Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter to Discussion event. ‘Curating is part of my practice’ agency. One of the key challenges for the project was century market hall into a cinema and Kathleen Herbert workshops, associated marketing campaign and www.picture-this.org.uk present the collection to a broader public at venues in Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman to establish a relationship between the practices of the created a melancholic video installation for the website became vital to supporting visitors’ experience Bristol, Birmingham, Sunderland and London. With the and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan. invited artists and the commissioning brief. cavernous space of an empty riverside warehouse. of the exhibition. Talks included responses from an help of commissioned artists the archive took on a new asylum support offi cer, a lay chaplain, architect, curator look at each venue. www.curatingdegreezero.org Conventional public art often diverges from that of the The resulting exhibition took the visitor on an intriguing and historian. Artist Joff Winterhart produced a series of gallery or commissioning where greater prominence route through the Old City, though all the works drawings documenting Bumping the Bounds, conceived The tour was funded through the Arts Council National may be given to the particulars of the brief and role of consciously resisted nostalgic indulgence in the city’s by artist Frances Bossom, an education project Touring Programme. the client. Here the original brief to the artists, past. Rather, the artists’ works were marked by a tension managed by Arnolfi ni.