A Place For Words: Case Studies, Literature and public art (temporary outcomes)

The case studies linked to below give brief details about (and where available external links to) existing Literature and Public Art projects which have temporary outcomes, aimed at animating places.

Further up in the Air

Further Up In The Air – Eighteen artists, including writer Will Self, were commissioned to occupy empty flats in a Liverpool tower block destined for demolition, and create work responding to the tower and the regeneration process in the local area.

BS1

BS1 Novelist, Donna Daley-Clarke was commissioned by Insite Arts and Neville Gabie to respond to the construction of Cabot Circus shopping centre, Bristol.

Four Star

Four Star – Performance poet, Ralph Hoyte, worked with visual artist, Jenny Graham, on a project exploring rural independent garages in the Sedgemoor area of Somerset.

Blythescopes

Blythscopes – A temporary installation of visual poems on hoardings surrounding the market square development in Blyth, Northumberland.

Almost an Island

Almost an Island? A project exploring the Greenwich Peninsula in words and sound.

The Shop of Priceless Things

The Shop of Priceless Things A text installation in Rotherham City Centre celebrating what money can't buy.

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