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Brass Art is Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican, based in Manchester, Glasgow and Huddersfield, UK.

Our old website can still be accessed here- archive.brassart.org.uk 



Brass Art

Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces (2019)





Editors: Nick Cass, Gill Park, Anna Powell. Routledge: London



Part I – Reimagining heritage

Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience – Niki Black & Rebecca Farley

Making Cities: place, production, and (im)material heritage – Laura Breen

Gestured by Brass Art: Gestures, Ambiguity and Material Transformation at Chetham’s Library – Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, and Anneke Pettican



Part II – Alternative histories

Making the invisible visible in Capability Brown’s lost landscapes – Gill Park

A room of one’s own: strategies of feminist arts interventions – Jenna C. Ashton

Contemporary interventions and conflict: the possibilities of ‘critical historical consciousness’ as a mode of heritage production – Joanne Williams

Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience: Mary Eleanor Bowes and The Orangery Urns – Andrew Burton



Part III – Disciplinary dialogues

Expanded interiors: bringing contemporary site-specific fine-art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii – Catrin Huber

Practising history: art, archives and footnotes – Catherine Bertola & Rachel Rich

Understanding the audience experience of contemporary visual arts at Geevor Mine World Heritage Site: a dialogue between a contemporary artist and a sociologist – Gaynor Bagnall & Jill Randall



Part IV – Liminal spaces

Numinous experiences in the home of the Brontës – Nick Cass

Transactions of an artist’s placement: planning Berwick-upon-Tweed with Sander Van Raemdonck – Julie Crawshaw & Menelaos Gkartzios

Bruce Nauman at York St Mary’s: a hermeneutic enquiry into ‘the intersection’ – Anna Powell