Talking City Com:missions
Posted on March 7th, 2010
Talking City offered a series of 4 exciting com:missions for artists to respond to. The com:missions continued the investigations started as part of Interrogation: Walsall, but this time artists could apply to Interrogate public realm spaces anywhere.
The artists were told:
Your Talking City Com:mission, should you choose to accept it, is to become a secret agent for the day in order to interrogate the public spaces where you live or work, alternatively you may decide to go on a journey to a city and carry out your mission there.
You will investigate the artist’s role in the post-industrial world through one of four methods:
Com:mission - ACTION RESEARCH
Com:mission – CONSULTATION
Com:mission – COLLABORATION
Com:mission – INTERVENTION
The Com:missions explore the impact that one artist (you) can make in one place, in one day. The com:missions are designed to investigate the impact of short, sharp interventions within the public realm, and questions how working quickly and responsively feels for the artist.
The four Com:missioned artists were:
Les Bicknell – Com:mission Action Research
Meg Mosley – Com:mission Action Research
David Bethell – Com:mission Intervention
Aaron Head – Com:mission Intervention
Click on the artist’s names to read about their exciting projects.
TALKING CITY is Anna Francis’ Longhouse Guest Editor project, for March 2010.
