Asylum Artist Quarter is proud to be apart of the creative team working to develop & deliver ‘OFFSITE 9’
We have been involved in the development, curation & selection process, alongside the other creative organisations and artists supporting this local program of innovative interventions around the city centre.
Our project commission is entitled ‘If we had this [SPACE]’, an interactive art trail which you can experience by downloading the OVERHEAR app on your mobile or tablet.
We are also helping to support the realisation of four female photographic explorations of the city under the project ‘SINGLEPOINT/Counterpoint’ and are proud to be hosting 9 sites for artists to respond to including Daniella Turbins’ ‘SO9198’, which will provide visitors with a series of public walks.
Alongside this we have programmed a series of group and solo shows that showcase some of the exceptional local talent here in the midlands. Our program will be across The Quarter & The Asylum Art Gallery and directly responds to the themes BAS9 brings to our city and the questions it raises.
OFFSITE 9 Commission
| IF WE HAD THIS [ S P A C E ] |
Asylum Artist Quarter commission
Curated by Hannah Taylor & Corin Salter
In partnership with OVERHEAR Ltd.
January 22nd – 10th April
Soundscape trail – accessed via OVERHEAR mobile phone app.
Collect the 9 sound pieces of spoken word & music around Wolverhampton city centre. Experience a pilgrimage of forgotten spaces, ghosts of lost places and help us shape a new city by telling us what you would do …. If you just had that space! 9 creatives have been commissioned to respond to 9 locations around the city that once stood as pillars of our community, spaces of healing, of community spirit. They now stand derelict.
Use the digital map on the Overhear app to follow the trail and collect, bring to life their history again! Each site also allows for visitors to write their thoughts on how they would use the space if they had access to it.
Artists include; BONES , Neonethewonderer, Ni Singh LIM, The Calamity, Rebecca Mayhay, Sian Macfarlane, Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger, Nathaniel Grant use the QR code to download the app.
Lost locations:
Epic café | KFC | Beattie’s | Wildbytes | Darlington street church | The Whitehart pub | Chapel Ash Underpass | The Eye Hospital | Wulfruna’s Well
