Transfer, a temporary time-based site-specific art project in the centre of Milton Keynes
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Arts and Cultures
Abstract
The project will explore the nature and understanding of contemporary artistic practice in relationship to central urban space, through a large-scale site-specific time- based art project, the construction and de-construction, of a full-scale replica of Milton Keynes Gallery in the central shopping mall of Milton Keynes. A significant aspect of the project is the connection of art with industry, instigating processes of knowledge /technology and skills transfer through an international collaboration between local, national and international companies and construction Colleges.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Wolfgang Weileder (Principal Investigator) |
| Title | TRANSFER - a temporary time-based architectural installation |
| Description | A full-scale replica of Milton Keynes Gallery was simultaneously constructed and deconstructed over a three-week period at Station Square, Milton Keynes. In the choreographed building process each sidewall was built individually, so that the structure emerged in a slow rotation. Over the duration of the project a complete shell of the Gallery, 9m high and 18 x 18m wide was materialised, although never in its entirety. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2006 |
| Impact | The project has been contextualised and discussed internationally in key peer reviewed journals and books, including: Das Leben ist eine Baustelle by Dr. Cornelia Gockel in Kunstforum International (issue185), Germany 2007;and the monograph: Wolfgang Weileder, Transfer (publisher: Milton Keynes Gallery ISBN 978-0-9553440-6-0, 2007) including essays by Dr. Ludwig Seyfarth, Berlin and Professor Simon Guy, Manchester. The project is documented and archived on http://www.transfer-project.org; http://www.wolfgangweileder.com/installation/transfer.html; http://www.mk-g.org/index.php?id=288 and http://weilederatmk.blog.com/Transfer/; Transfer had pedagogical impact as case study for ACE funded project (International Centre for Culture and Heritage Studies, Newcastle) which sought to develop new critical frameworks relating to cultural, human and social capital and learning theory. |
| URL | http://www.transfer-project.com |
| Title | TRANSFER - exhibition |
| Description | The exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery included the presentation of the four screen video installation and the black and white photographs recorded during the realisation of the TRANSFER project in 2006. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2007 |
| Impact | The exhibition has been contextualised and discussed internationally in key peer reviewed journals and books, including: Das Leben ist eine Baustelle by Dr. Cornelia Gockel in Kunstforum International (issue185), Germany 2007;and the monograph: Wolfgang Weileder, Transfer (publisher: Milton Keynes Gallery ISBN 978-0-9553440-6-0, 2007) including essays by Dr. Ludwig Seyfarth, Berlin and Professor Simon Guy, Manchester. |
| URL | http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/wolfgang_weileder_transfer/ |
| Title | TRANSFER - series of large format b&w photographs |
| Description | This photographic series records the construction and deconstruction of the architectural installation TRANSFER, Milton Keynes, 2006. The images were recorded using specially constructed photographic cameras and photographic plates that were exposed for the entire three-week duration of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2006 |
| Impact | The photographic series has been contextualised and discussed internationally in key peer reviewed journals and books, including: Das Leben ist eine Baustelle by Dr. Cornelia Gockel in Kunstforum International (issue185), Germany 2007;and the monograph: Wolfgang Weileder, Transfer (publisher: Milton Keynes Gallery ISBN 978-0-9553440-6-0, 2007) including essays by Dr. Ludwig Seyfarth, Berlin and Professor Simon Guy, Manchester. |
| URL | http://www.wolfgangweileder.com/photography/transfer_bw.html |
| Title | TRANSFER - video installation |
| Description | TRANSFER was recorded over a period of three weeks using four high-definition video cameras. The work was presented as a time-lapse multiscreen-screen video installation at Milton Keynes Gallery in 2007. It re-presented the building and deconstruction of the architectural installation transfer (a full scale replica of the Gallery, constructed in Station Square, Milton Keynes, in 2006) as a projection on the relating walls within the interior gallery space. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2007 |
| Impact | The video installation has been contextualised and discussed internationally in key peer reviewed journals and books, including: Das Leben ist eine Baustelle by Dr. Cornelia Gockel in Kunstforum International (issue185), Germany 2007;and the monograph: Wolfgang Weileder, Transfer (publisher: Milton Keynes Gallery ISBN 978-0-9553440-6-0, 2007) including essays by Dr. Ludwig Seyfarth, Berlin and Professor Simon Guy, Manchester. |
| URL | http://www.wolfgangweileder.com/other/transfer_video_installation.html |
| Description | During the course of the funded research we have been able to identify and extend our relationships with collaborators and to form new research partnerships. In working with third party collaborators we have also identified important new research resources. As well as attracting a significant amount of financial and in kind support from both the cultural sector and the building industry the project has enabled new partnerships which have significantly contributed to the research. Due to the nature of this project and the large-scale art installations that we have installed we have been able to develop our skills and methodologies with regards to collaborating with other educational institutions such as local Further Education Colleges. |
| Exploitation Route | Findings of the research project have been disseminated widely beyond academia through books and webpages including: Inspiration: Contemporary Design Methods in Architecture, Mark Mückenheim and Juliane Demel (Authors), Bis Publishers 2013 (ISBN 978-9063692674) Back to the City, Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions, Steffen Lehmann (Editor), HatjeCantz 2009 (ISBN 978-3775723299) |
| Sectors | Construction,Creative Economy,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.transfer-project.com |
| Description | The Arts Council England commissioned in 2007 a report on the societal impact of public art projects that included the TRANSFER project as a case study: Project Transfer--Shifts in the social and cultural capital of Further Education construction students involved in constructing an artwork, by Anna Goulding. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2006 |
| Sector | Construction,Creative Economy,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |