'…what art should be, extraordinary, slightly tragic but fascinating as well…’ BBC

Artefact Projects exists for the purpose of ‘educating the general public by developing access to cultural artefacts and events’. It is a non-profit organisation run by curators and project managers Ben Coode-Adams and Brigid Howarth.

Their work was jury-selected for the Bridges II Conference and the ‘Beauty of Collaboration’ Summit at the Banff New Media Centre in Canada in Autumn 2002 and Spring 2003 respectively. They presented to the ‘Things That Can't Quite Speak’ Workshop hosted by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.

Other projects include a residency with sociologist Kris Cohen at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, which resulted in the performance ‘Is Someone Coming to Get Me?’ This was a recreation of the 1996 Everest Disaster performed over 29 hours in real time. This performance was restaged in Banff to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first ascent of Everest.

With Mil Stricevic, Artefact Projects completed ‘Lost and Found’, which involved the permanent installation of 12 Sonic Vista benches in Barrow-in-Furness town centre. These benches use solar powered MP3 players and audio, in a series of plays and poems embedded in the fabric of the town. Further work includes video installations in National Parks in the North and a series of short films recreating Sir John Franklin’s journey to the Polar sea.

Artefact Projects have also managed a series of residencies in universities across the country for the Crafts Council, completed R & D work on science audiences with the Arts Council and evaluated projects for the Africa Centre. They curated and commissioned a series of permanent art and design pieces for the largest craft and design centre in the UK, the Hub, in Lincolnshire. This launched in October 2003.

For more information please contact:

Ben Coode-Adams & Brigid Howarth
Artefact Projects
199a Friern Road
Dulwich
London SE22 0BD
Office: 020 8693 0476
Mobile: 07752 672631
brigid.howarth@virgin.net

Ben Coode-Adams
Office: 020 7923 3755
Mobile: 0780 3968666
ben@bencoodeadams.com

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