Flash@Hebburn Urban Art in the New Century

Quick, Charles orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-5247-2489, Vickery, Jonathan, Wood, Jon, Duggan, Tony, Jarratt, Jarratt and Chesney, Rebbeca (2010) Flash@Hebburn Urban Art in the New Century. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), London UK. ISBN 978-0-9565192-0-7

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Abstract

The publication of Flash@Hebburn, explores the creation of the public art installation Flash@Hebburn featuring light and electricity, by Charles Quick, on the banks of the River Tyne at Hebburn Riverside Park in South Tyneside, which spanned a period of seven and a half years and was inaugurated on March 9th 2009.
It extensively documents the testing, making and installing of a public art installation that resembles a technical functional placement, which serves to evoke a largely post-industrial site without resorting to nostalgia, while strongly relating to the community where it is placed. Jonthan Vickery’s essay, Infrastructures: Creating Flash@Hebburn, places the work not only in its context of site and its relation to the audience but also in the development of an art world discourse on new urban arts. This is supported by an interview with the artist by Dr John Wood, Henry Moore Institute which discusses the project as a piece of art work in relationship to other contemporary works the artist and others have carried out.

Contents

Section title
Section author
Page
Foreword
Matthew Jarratt
7
Introduction
Tony Duggan
8
Hebburn
Charles Quick
12
The sculptural imagination of charles quick
Jon Wood
26
Working it out
Charles Quick
34
Infrastures; Creating FLASH@Hebburn
Jonathan Vickery
44
Testing, Making, Installing
Charles Quick
62
Flash@Hebburn
Charles Quick
76
The Launch
Charles Quick
94
Celebrating Flash@Hebburn
Rebbeca Chesney
96

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