Repository / by Claire Farrell

Rendered In/visable.

Cathy Wade

In Birmingham’s near past if you bought a bus ticket to the centre it said Paradise, the name taken from the civic centre location Paradise Forum. Like all cities Birmingham exists in a state of continued unrest, what is no longer seen as part of its desired fabric is to be removed, scraped back to its core and remade. It is not a coincidence that the motto of the city of is Forward, and that through its redevelopment Paradise Forum is now transformed simply into Paradise. The public space of John Madin’s Central Library sold to build a new Birmingham Library, and now private space for a mixed-use development.

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The Production of Meaning (2018) by Ian Richards The work is a comment on monumental public art commissions; the semantics of promise, actualisation and premise. Created for Future History.

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Is it Artwashing? A reflexive approach would help artists answer.

Jenny Peevers

As someone involved in socially engaged, site specific arts practice, it’s impossible not to be aware of a term that has entered into arts discourse: artwashing. I’ve recently been involved in conversations and debates where artists and producers question whether or not the term describes what they’re unwittingly involved in doing…I’ve questioned myself...

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