Inner city regeneration? Or what? Barn Again @ The Biscuit Factory Cultural heritage gone mad I have held back on this one a while – not wanting to hammer the NE of England too much. But here goes anyway. An ART warehouse, brand new interior, in an old food factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK. Urban regeneration…
Author: Michael Shanks
Manchester UK – Archaeology and performance
Visiting Nick Kaye in the drama department to talk about his superb book on site specific art (and which features a piece by Cliff McLucas on Brith Gof’s work Tri Bywyd). Tri Bywyd – scenographic design by Cliff McLucas It again confirms, for me, that the contemporary fine arts are where the most interesting intellectual…
Looting Baghdad Museum – why we should, or shouldn’t care
We want stories rather than things! Just got the July/August issue of Archaeology Odyssey. Cover – “Rape of an Iraqi museum”Photo – a turbaned head rolling on the floor amidst scattered papers and debris. A headline and image of crime and destruction. We have heard a lot about this in the media since April –…
State of the discipline?
Catholic University, Washington DC World Archaeology Congress Hundreds of archaeologists gathering for the globalism-aware and politically-aware conference. Our session – a bunch of us from Stanford, Doug Bailey from Cardiff, Jonna Hansson and Fiona Campbell from Gothenburg – was the latest in our creative heresies series to explore the edges of archaeology. It didn’t go…
Located Bodies
Antony Gormley at the Baltic Arts Center Wonderful stuff. Anthropometrics, collaborative work, community based, questioning representational forms. Allotment. Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo. All arranged in the gallery in social groups, and as a kind of miniature city scape. Domain Field. Whole body casts made of some 250 volunteers from the…
Heritage and urban myth
Gateshead UK – Baltic Center for Contemporary Art Dinner last night with Peter and Sue MacDonald; Helen of course too. The restaurant is at the top of the old flour mill on the quayside, though it looks like a grain silo. It’s now an arts center, 46 million quids worth. Lots of other development here…
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