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Evidence

Evidence 2008-12, is an archive-audit of over 4,300 unique private view cards, installed as a vast bespoke floor work to be walked upon. Originally a critique and parody of the auditing exercise of the RAE/REF, it became an act of mourning for the 'death' of the private view card, part an archive of a period of time and part a symbolic representation of a field of cultural activity. Simultaneously celebratory and critical of the sheer mass of art production, the work is experiential - manifesting data and evidence as a material landscape - permitting the collection to be experienced collectively, individually and materially (rather than sequentially and virtually as in a digital context). New private view cards replace cards damaged by the impact of the ‘footfall’ of visitors, in an endless, indexical cycle of production and consumption. Evidence 2008-12 was developed during ‘What Do Artists Do?’ an Arts Council funded project (2008) commissioned from renowned artist Phyllida Barlow, and at Sculpture Studio, artists' residency at Chapter, Cardiff, Wales (2009), and exhibited at SWITCH - the inaugural exhibition of the Baltic's new space, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne (2012). SWITCH, selected by Barlow, and ‘What Do Artists Do?’ invited artists and audience to question the role of the exhibition and to share and test the performative complexity of artistic production. Reviewed in Frieze Issue 149, “Lowe’s work created a point of resistance to reading the exhibition from a single perspective”. Additional outcomes: a performance at a public event at the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick that built upon the collective events and readings that formed a key aspect of What do artists do? ; 'Evidence Poster' 2009, an Arts Council funded screenprint for What do artists do? , exhibited in ‘Friendship of The Peoples’, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2011.