Hello,

We are MA Contemporary Art Theory students from Edinburgh College of Art. We are going to give you a short talk on public art, projects that we are currently engaged in a maybe even feedback on your own work.

‘Site and non-site’

Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, 1970

Robert Smithson’s Corner Mirror with Coral, 1969

Public and Community Art

What is the difference?

How much collaboration should the artist have with the community?

What is the main purpose of public art?

John Ahearn, Percent for Art projects, Bronx, New York, 1992

Suzanne Lacy’s and A Coalition of Chicago Women, Full Circle, 1993

“Ahearn’s effort was meant to function as art that is of the people,”

Kwon, 2002

Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, 2006, Chicago

Anish Kapoor’s The Farm, 2009, New Zealand

Does public art have to be socially engaged and accessible to the public?

Should the public choose public art?

Jaume Plensa's Dream, St Helens

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Turbulence, Cardigan, Wales

Mapping the Terrain; New genrepublic art , Suzanne Lacy(Bay Press, 1995)

In the Place of the Public Sphere,Simon Sheikh (Ed.)(b_books, 2005)

One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity ,Miwon Kwon, (MIT Press, 2002)

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