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Paul Antick: itourist?

Paul Antick: itourist?
Paul Antick: itourist?
Produced by Paul Antick, itourist? is a multi-media project that uses billboard art, writing and the internet to pose a series of questions about the relationship between the Holocaust, Jewish identities and mass tourism in the 21st century.
In December 2006 fourteen 10 x 20ft billboards – produced by Paul Antick and Syd Shelton – were simultaneously erected in Southampton, London and Terezin, Czech Republic (formerly Theresienstadt concentration camp), each remaining in situ for two weeks,

The Southampton billboards were located in St. Andrews Rd (nr Medina Mosque), Commercial Rd (adj. Mayflower Theatre), 137-138 St Mary's St and Harbour Parade Download a map of the Southampton itourist? billboard sites.

An accompanying website www.visual-culture.com forms an important, constitutive part of the project. Functioning like a digital notebook, the artist hopes that it will encourage discussion and ideas regarding itourist? It provides audiences with the opportunity to post their own thoughts about the project, as well as including other billboard locations and further information

Foster, Stephen
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Foster, Stephen
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Foster, Stephen (2006) Paul Antick: itourist?

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Abstract

Produced by Paul Antick, itourist? is a multi-media project that uses billboard art, writing and the internet to pose a series of questions about the relationship between the Holocaust, Jewish identities and mass tourism in the 21st century.
In December 2006 fourteen 10 x 20ft billboards – produced by Paul Antick and Syd Shelton – were simultaneously erected in Southampton, London and Terezin, Czech Republic (formerly Theresienstadt concentration camp), each remaining in situ for two weeks,

The Southampton billboards were located in St. Andrews Rd (nr Medina Mosque), Commercial Rd (adj. Mayflower Theatre), 137-138 St Mary's St and Harbour Parade Download a map of the Southampton itourist? billboard sites.

An accompanying website www.visual-culture.com forms an important, constitutive part of the project. Functioning like a digital notebook, the artist hopes that it will encourage discussion and ideas regarding itourist? It provides audiences with the opportunity to post their own thoughts about the project, as well as including other billboard locations and further information

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Accepted/In Press date: 2006
Additional Information: itourist? and Journeys through the Holocaust are presented in collaboration with John Hansard Gallery and are supported by Middlesex University, Center for Contemporary Art Prague, Parkes Institute for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton) and Museum of Domestic Art and Architecture (MoDA, Middlesex University). Toured to East End, London and Czeck Republic. Commissioned exhibition funded by Middlesex University and MODA Czeck centre for contemporary art, Prague
Organisations: Professional Services

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Local EPrints ID: 210787
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/210787
PURE UUID: 55795b6e-89d5-4420-b8a7-bcdc166f6db9

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Date deposited: 23 Mar 2012 09:32
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 20:05

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Curator of an exhibition: Stephen Foster

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