South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains
This collaborative arts research project compares the landmark discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork discovered in 2009, with an imagined hoard from present day pre-adolescent girls. The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, NY
punctum books
2014
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This collaborative arts research project compares the landmark discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork discovered in 2009, with an imagined hoard from present day pre-adolescent girls. The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking “artifacts,” and photographed the entire process. In addition to dealing with the notion of a medieval hoard as a signifier of a medieval warrior as both hero and anti-hero, this artbook, or work of futurist archaeology, addresses contemporary issues relating to gender, youth culture, bullying, adolescent development, iconicity, status symbols, and additional contemporary tween issues. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Physical Description: | 172 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780692346563 P3.0085.1.00 |