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How To Talk To Public Art

2006
Various locations around Manchester. Comissioned as part of BBC's Power Of Art series
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    Have You Heard The One The Public Sphere?

Video, 2006, Hull Central Library.

Comissioned by Hull Time Based Arts as part of If Your Name's Not Down, You're Not Coming In. Curated by Esther Windsor.
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    How To Talk To Buildings

Video, 2006

Comissioned by ARC, Hull, UK
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    Freee@Meet The Interruptors: The Truth About Socially-Engaged Art Practice

Text/photograph, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2006.

To mark the publishing of Gavin Wade’s non-simultaneous novel ‘The Interruptors’.
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    Artists Cannot Bring Integrity To Your Work Unless They Provide A Full And Candid Critique Of Everything You Do

Performance/Text/photograph

EAST International, Selectors Dirk Snauwaert & Jeremy Deller, Norwich Gallery, July - August 2006. Presented by B+B at Art and Architecture Journal’s Conference Art in the City - Creativity, Property and Cultural Regeneration, London, November 2005.
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    The Neo-Imperialist Function Of Public Art Is To Clear A Path For Agressive Economic Expansion

Text/Billboard

Commissioned by Gavin Wade for Public Structures, a special project for the Second Guangzhou Triennial BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization curated by Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guo Xiaoyan.
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    31. What Are Aesthetics? / The Aesthetic Function Of Public Art

Text/Poster
Curated by Gavin Wade as part of his Strategic Questions projects. Venice Biennale, 8 June - 6 November 2005. Location of artwork: Ponte dei Barcaroli, on the Calle dei Frutariol, San Marco district, Venice Biennale, and free poster/publication available at various Biennale sites.
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    The Economic Function Of Public Art Is To Increase The Value Of Private Property

Billboard/Text/Photograph. Located at the corner of Corporation Street & Alma Street, Sheffield S3. 6 April - 20 April 2004. Originally commissioned by Ixia (formerly Public Art Forum.)
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    The Social Function Of Public Art Is To Subject Us To Civic Behaviour

Text/Poster/Photograph. Curated poster project with Insertspace entitled It’s the only life I know. Also included artists Oliver Ressler and Mark Hutchinson. Located in a display case on the side of the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, the plinth has become a regular venue for projects that declare an interest in public art.
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    The Function Of Public Art For Regeneration Is To Sex-Up The Control Of The Under-Classes

Text/Poster/Photograph.oding Road, Homerton High Street, Hackney, London. August 2005. Commissioned by B+B for Real Estate: Art in a Changing City, an exhibition curated by B+B. Part of London in Six Easy Steps at the ICA, 23–28 August, 2005.
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    The Three Functions

Text/Posters/Publication. The Three Functions project has been developed for the curtorial project Vitrine. Leeds and was on show from 13th May - 8th July 2005. This coincided with Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists and the Public Realm, May 2005.
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