The Event Sculpture 2014

The Event Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds.

The Event Sculpture presents nine sculptures that are events, inviting artists including Lara Favaretto (b. 1973, Italy), Urs Fischer (b. 1973, Switzerland), Ceal Floyer (b. 1968, Pakistan), Simone Forti (b. 1935, Italy), Simon Martin (b. 1965, UK), Anthony McCall (b. 1946, UK), Maria Nordman (b. 1943, Germany), Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, UK) and Roman Signer (b. 1938, Switzerland) to present a single work on the exterior of our building which then moves into our gallery spaces.

From Monday 10 November 2014 until 8 March 2015 an event sculpture will take place every other Monday outside the Institute building. On 3 February, the morning after the seventh event, the sculptures will begin to gather in our gallery spaces.

A sculpture in the public realm is associated with permanence and memorial, indeed directly in front of our building stand two sculptures that embody this definition: Henry Charles Fehr's Leeds War Memorial and one of Joseph Beuys' '7000 Oaks'. When presented in public space, the nine works in The Event Sculpture are concentrated, impermanent and transitory with each outdoor event spilling out into the life of the city and firmly placing the encounter within the present.

When presented in the gallery spaces, the nine works move to a private form of encounter, and rooted within a centre dedicated to the study of sculpture they become situated within the ever-expanding field of sculpture

My contribution to the outside part was a digital facsimile of Hollis Frampton's 16mm film Lemon from 1967 projected on to the front of the building. The projection is entirely fictional and made by a digital animator. The work has been fake aged by copying over and again on VHS tape. Inspired by once seeing the original Frampton piece very poorly displayed in a museum in New York. This work is one of several iterations of the piece from this time. The aim being to always show the work 'incorrectly'. This version included a composed electronic soundtrack (as opposed to the original being silent) and was accidentally projected in the wrong format.