South Station Hoard
Subtitle: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains
Publisher: punctum books
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780692346563
Subjects: Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art
Description: This collaborative arts research project compares the landmark discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork discovered in 2009, with an imagined hoard from present day pre-adolescent girls. The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking ?artifacts,? and photographed the entire process. In addition to dealing with the notion of a medieval hoard as a signifier of a medieval warrior as both hero and anti-hero, this artbook, or work of futurist archaeology, addresses contemporary issues relating to gender, youth culture, bullying, adolescent development, iconicity, status symbols, and additional contemporary tween issues.
Notes: English.