Translation - the Midsummer Place Commissions

  The artists selected represent a mix of regional, national
  and international contemporary arts practice across
  disciplines. The theme 'Translation' was overlaid for the
  artists to consider change, re-interpretation and
  experience of physical space and context, maximising
  this impact by using non-gallery, familiar, public spaces
  to exhibit art.

The commissions are concerned with the 'translation' of public spaces, focusing on the use of these spaces in Milton Keynes City Centre, but additionally of language and culture and in turn, the wider interpretation of the word itself.

Pink and Freeman's piece is completely non-visual, providing a purely sensory exhibition. We communicate who we are to others in many different ways and we inhabit our own realities. Harper's painted 'illusions' transmute the man-made to the organic, using both traditional and modern media to deliver and transform architectural formality in organic chaos. Bieli's 'spatial drawings' bring to life areas and entire buildings which, over time or by design, have large unused vacant areas of 'space'. her works translate these voids in intricate structures which manage to inhabit many times their physical mass. Ilic and Prostran use performance, installation, film and text to observe and document construct ideas of society. The Utopian/Dystopian ideal is at the heart of their work.

The works will be spread throughout the whole of Central Milton Keynes commencing in August and culminating in the close of the festival in October.