Culture on the Move - MET (Mobile Event Tent)
Culture on the Move explores new models of temporary community cultural infrastructure. In Certain Places, led by curators Charles Quick and Elaine Speight, is a public art research project based at the University of Lancashire. We create artworks that challenge how we understand and experience places and foster long-term change by connecting institutions and communities. Over the last 20 years, we have worked with artists from Preston and across the globe to question, disrupt and shape the places in our city. Each activity is part of an ongoing conversation about the politics of place: what places mean, who has the power to (re)make them and how art can help us to connect with and care for the places in our lives. The publication reveals and explores our particular interest, over the last ten years, in cultural infrastructure. It focuses on one project in detail, the MET (Mobile Event Tent), while giving an overview of all the related (ICP) projects that have had a direct relationship with it. We examine and reveal the different aspects of creating and using the mobile arts centre, its impact on the communities it has visited, its historical context, and the commissioning and design. The publication includes essays by the researcher Dr Rebecca Roke who is the author of the best-selling titles Nanotecture (2016) and Mobitecture (2017), and an essay by Steve Slack originally produced for the online arts publication Corridor8. Edited by Charles Quick and John Scalan.
