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Magnificent Distance: Five Site-Specific Installations Washington DC 2012

Hollinshead, R., Campbell, C., Jeans Houghton, B., Ray, J., Streffen, I., Weileder, W., Priest, I., Wells, R., Vincentelli, A., Robinson, A., Hearn, M. and Eisenbach, R. (2012) Magnificent Distance: Five Site-Specific Installations Washington DC 2012. Washington DC, USA; Newcastle, UK: Grit & Pearl. 9780957342507.

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Abstract:
5x5, Washington DC’s inaugural public art festival, was conceived as a flagship biennial in which five curators would each be invited to curate new site-specific artworks by five artists – leading to the simultaneous installation of twenty-five artworks across Washington DC. The primary research question explored in the curation of the five Magnificent Distance artworks was the slippage between the symbolic DC of the worldwide public imagination and the ‘domestic’, human DC with its complex histories and communities. Many of the exhibition sites, selected as part of my curatorial role, were at the interstices of these two DC realities – at the meeting point between federal and community environments, in locations undergoing transformation from one use to another, and at points where differing scales of architecture meet.
Additional Information:
Exhibition catalogue for projects installed as part of the 5X5 Public Art Festival, Washington DC, USA held 20 March - 28 April 2012 (also curated by Richard Hollingshead). Catalogue also published to coincide with The Magnificant Distance Exhibition, Globe Gallery Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, held 02-24 August 2012
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Public art, Washington DC
Subjects:
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) > N6494.I56 Installation art
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) > N4390 Exhibitions
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) > N8700 Art and the state. Public art
Creators:
Hollinshead, R., Campbell, C., Jeans Houghton, B., Ray, J., Streffen, I., Weileder, W., Priest, I., Wells, R., Vincentelli, A., Robinson, A., Hearn, M. and Eisenbach, R.
Corporate Creators:
Grit & Pearl
Funders or Sponsors:
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (DCCAH), Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council
Publisher:
Grit & Pearl
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Fine Art
Date:
1 August 2012
Date Type:
Publication
Place of Publication:
Washington DC, USA; Newcastle, UK
Number of Pages:
100
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780957342507
Status:
Published / Disseminated
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