Public Trust
Time:
Friday 30 Aug 15:00 - 19:00
Saturday 31 Aug 11:00 - 19:00
Sunday 1 Sep 11:00 - 18:00
Artist: Fierce Festival
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Queen Victoria Square
Location Number: 5
Genre: Installation
Photo Credit: Lensi Photography
How serious are the promises we make to one another, the vows we take, or the pledges made by our civic leaders? In this interactive artwork, we invite you to memorialise a promise in words that will be published on a large display board amongst other promises made by politicians, scientists and even weather forecasters. This promise can be anything you want, to yourself, to a loved one, or to the universe! Put power behind your pledge and declare it to the world!
Lead Artist – Paul Ramírez Jonas
Paul Ramírez Jonas’ work ranges from large-scale public installation and monumental sculpture to intimate performance, video, and drawing, and traces the universal aspiration to an elusive perfect world. His solo exhibitions have featured in renowned galleries across the world. His honours include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991), Art Matters Foundation (2009), and Joan Mitchell Foundation (2009), as well as a Howard Foundation Fellowship (2009). He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP).
Produced and presented in association with Fierce
Fierce is Birmingham’s cultivator of artists, audiences and contexts for new performance – placing marginalised / outsider / alternative voices centre stage. They produce the internationally acclaimed Fierce Festival – a youthful and joy-filled festival of international theatre, performance and experiences which takes place in and around Birmingham (UK) every two years – as well as exciting and unique creative projects year round. For over 25 years, Fierce has been promoting Birmingham and the region across the world as a vibrant, diverse and tolerant place where the incredible happens in unusual places, the outlandish is embraced and celebrated and the new is welcomed with curiosity and kindness.
BSL interpreted performances: Sat 31 Aug and Sun 1 Sep between 11:00 and 13:00
A BSL introduction to the project is available on our website.
Join in/interactive project.
Lead Artist – Paul Ramírez Jonas. Produced and presented in association with Fierce. Originally commissioned by Now + Then.
