Public Acts: Tombstone (let's get over this): Acts of Making Festival 2015, Wolverhampton, Gateshead, & Plymouth.

Public Acts brings together 2 projects that through temporary public intervention, seek to alter perceptions of our daily interactions in public spaces, turning the functional and recreational into acts both poetic and performative.This item contains a project outline, a festival brochure, 2 developmental drawings,12 images of Tombstone in 3 UK locations and 5 Plymouth College of Art exhibition views.Tombstone (lets get over this) was commissioned by the Crafts Council for their Acts of Making Touring Festival in 2015. Harrison was 1 of 6 invited contemporary artists whose work approaches the act of making in performative and ephemeral ways. Tombstone (let's get over this) was a collaborative performance work developed and performed at two urban skate parks as well as a public skate event in Bilston town centre. The project invited skateboarders to become makers in the grinding of a specially made stone bench as a form of social sculpture.Link to Tombstone video @ Gateshead http://www.keith-harrison.info/works/tombstonevideo.htmlThe Act of Making Festival was delivered in 3 UK locations:1. 14th-28th February 2015 Bilston Town Centre, Wolverhampton2. 7th-21st March 2015, Dynamix Skate Park, Gateshead.3. 12th-26th September 2015, Prime Skate Park, Plymouth.For a list of other participating artists please refer to the Festival Brochure in this item.Photography: Dom Moore and Sophie Mutevelian. Images used with permission courtesy of the photographers.To access the The Plymouth Principles, please follow this link to the Plymouth Culture website:http://plymouthculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-Plymouth-Principles.pdfThe work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.