Abstract
A site-specific video and sound installation by Roger Bourke commissioned by York St John University as it's 2008 LUX Commission for Illuminating York festival. Curated by Judit Bodor as part of her Creative Fellowship in Teaching & Learning the artwork was installed at the Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. elegia in Holy Trinity Church drew on the ‘human’ scale of the church as well as on the ‘mongrel’ quality of its architecture with its cycles of periodic neglect, repair and its current heritage context. The installation responded to both the metaphoric meaning and the unique character of the church’s box-pews and celebrates the traces of ‘ordinary intimate’ lives in the parish.
LUX provides York St John's University’s Fine Arts graduates with opportunity to acquire professional experience. Previously this resulted in graduate commission opportunities for these artists to develop and exhibit works. While LUX 2008 kept faith with these aims it has set itself the revised objective of inviting curator Judit Bodor and artist Roger Bourke to provide current undergraduate students with professional awareness to produce next year’s commissions. Students were involved in the production of the installation from the start.
LUX provides York St John's University’s Fine Arts graduates with opportunity to acquire professional experience. Previously this resulted in graduate commission opportunities for these artists to develop and exhibit works. While LUX 2008 kept faith with these aims it has set itself the revised objective of inviting curator Judit Bodor and artist Roger Bourke to provide current undergraduate students with professional awareness to produce next year’s commissions. Students were involved in the production of the installation from the start.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- art installation
- site-specific commission
- Public art
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
