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Recognising the potential for the arts to play a greater role in creating and sustaining urban communities, the programme aims to create opportunities for artists to enhance the vitality of Reading, paying particular attention to new developments. Artists may be part of a multi-disciplinary team contributing to the conceptual development of a city-wide project or they may respond to a specific site or context. The programme aims to attract artists with national and international reputations as well as providing opportunities for Reading based artists. Artists are encouraged to make work that is specific to the town influencing the spirit of the place in which the people of Reading live, work and play. Highlights of the programme include the collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella to commission Gillian Wearing's film Family History, inspired by and featuring Reading based Heather Wilkins first seen in the 1972 BBC documentary The Family; and to celebrate the Samuel Beckett centenary a co-commission with the University of Reading for artists Wood and Harrison to make a new double screen work Another Pair. For a case study of the Artists in the City programme commissioned by Public Art Online researched and written by David Briers click here http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/regeneration/art_at_the_centre/description.php.html For more details on artists contributing to the programme visit here Images: top-bottom
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