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Fine art media students from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art have created site-specific installations for UCL. The works will be appearing around the main campus - featuring fireballs, carpets and hats - from 2 February 2008.

For their project, the undergraduates considered the wider context of UCL as a site for new pieces of work, and the project is a trial run for future interactions with UCL and its archives, buildings, contexts and audiences.

Brighid Lowe, a lecturer in Fine Art, explained: "The aim was to help shift the student's normal practice, and encourage them to engage with new audiences and with a different physical location and context. It has also developed their experience of writing proposals, budgeting and required them to take on board all the research, diplomacies, practicalities and the health and safety and legal issues required when making work in a public space. Hopefully the work will also help to introduce the work of Slade students to a wider UCL audience as they go about their own academic activities."Ìý

The artworks will include a geodesic dome 'planetarium', a video of a fireball advancing down the library corridor, thousands of paper leaves cut from free newspapers, movie taglines transferred onto refuse bins around UCL's main campus, a carpet that replicates UCL as seen from Google Earth, and even a site-specific hat.

Tim Bouckley (BA Fine Art Media) is placing taglines from conspiracy movies on bins around campus. He said: "My intention is that the work might be both amusing and sinister, also drawing attention to the multi-coloured bins that are dotted around UCL as a site of possible sub-cultural interest. What is likely is that at least some of the texts will remain in place for an extended period, with the treated bins popping up in different locations as they are shuffled around, something that I think lends itself to the kind of text I am using and one reasons why I chose them and not something more prominent or static."

UPDATE: Due to early closures caused by the adverse weather, many installations have been postponed or extended to the following dates:
Art library reading room: 3, 4 and 17 February
Art library: 17 February
Flaxman Gallery: 3 and 17 February
Literature corridor: 17 February
Rubbish bins throughout »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË campus: until 17 February
Beadle Box opposite Jeremy Bentham: 10 February
Wilkins Roof Garden - to be completed for 17 February
Front Quad: Observatory until 6 February and hut outside the entrance to the Slade until 17 February

Image: Leaves cut out from free newspapers by Ian Chan (BA Fine Art Media), which will appear strewn across the main art reading room.