Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces

Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of these intersections in the future. Presenting a variety of perspectives from a broad range of creative and cultural industries, this book examines case studies from the past decade where contemporary art has been sited within heritage spaces. Exploring the impact of these instances of intersection, and the thinking behind such moments of confluence, it provides an insight into a breadth of experiences – from curator, producer, and practitioner to visitor – of exhibitions where this juncture between contemporary art and heritage plays a crucial and critical role. Themes covered in the book include interpretation, soliciting and measuring audience responses, tourism and the visitor economy, regeneration agendas, heritage research, marginalised histories, and the legacy of exhibitions.Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museum and heritage studies and contemporary art around the globe. Museum practitioners and artists should also find much to interest them within the pages of this volume. Chapter 9 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com.Ithasbeen made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

1. Introduction Nick Cass, Gill Park, and Anna PowellPart I: Reimagining Heritage2. Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage ExperienceNiki Black and Rebecca Farley 3. Making Cities: Places, Production, and (Im)material Heritage Laura Breen4. Gestured byBrass Art: Gestures, Ambiguity, and MaterialTransformation at Chetham's LibraryBrass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneké PetticanPart II: Alternative Histories5. Making the Invisible Visible in Capability Brown's Lost LandscapesGill Park6. A Room of One’s Own: Strategies of Feminist Arts InterventionsJenna C. Ashton 7. Contemporary Interventions and Conflict: The Possibilities of ‘Critical Hhistorical Consciousness’ as a Mode of Heritage Production Joanne Williams8. Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience: Mary Eleanor Bowes and The Orangery UrnsAndrew Burton Part III: Disciplinary Dialogues9. Expanded Interiors: Bringing Contemporary Site-Specific Fine-Art Practice to RomanHouses at Herculaneum and PompeiiCatrin Huber10. Practicing History: Art, Archives, and FootnotesCatherine Bertola and Rachel Rich 11. Understanding the Audience Experience of Contemporary Visual Arts at Geevor Mine World Heritage Site: A Dialogue between a Contemporary Artist and a SociologistGaynor Bagnall and Jill Randall Part IV: Liminal Spaces 12. Numinous Experiences in the Home of the BrontesNick Cass 13. Transactions of an Artist's Placement: Planning Berwick-upon-Tweed with Sander Van RaemdonckJulie Crawshaw and Menelaos Gkartzios 14. Bruce Nauman at York St Mary's: A Hermeneutic EnquiryAnna Powell

Nick Cass is an artist and lecturer at the University of Leeds. Having a background working in museum education, andfrom his experience as an artist working within museums and heritage sites, he has a long-standing interest in the ‘intersection’ between artists and heritage.Gill Park is Lecturer in Art Gallery, Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Leeds and Lecturer in Curating at the University of Newcastle.Anna Powell is Senior Lecturer in Art and Design Theory in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield.