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Over an 8-week period beginning in September 2013, BC System – artists Jack Brindley and Lucas Clayton – worked with Situations to offer their services as public art providers in the city of Bristol.

Under the moniker BC System, Royal College of Art graduates, Jack Brindley and fellow artist Lucas Clayton offered their services as public art providers with a cumulative series of public art proposals for the city of Bristol. Their first proposition was to gift a permanent tattoo to Bristol residents over the opening weekend agreeing to be inscribed with the word ‘Forever’.

This, and additional provocative proposals from the artists were announced over an eight-week period, beginning Friday 13 September 2013. From this date, bespoke noticeboards detailing their proposals for new public artworks Bristol’s city centre, changing weekly.

The project was commissioned to run alongside the opening weekend of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition, organised in Bristol by Spike Island and incorporating an additional venue at 8 Millennium Promenade, Harbourside.

On 5th November 2013, BC System realised one of their original propositions  – the proposal to design and gift a series of bespoke tattoos of the word ‘forever’.

The ‘Forever Portfolio’ included bespoke designs of the word ‘Forever’, each authored as an original piece of BC System work that can only be used once. Situations worked with a tattoo studio in Bristol’s city centre to realise these designs for willing volunteers. The budget is supplied by BC system and tattoos will continue to be gifted until the budget runs out.

About the New Situationists programme
BC System were selected to undertake this project for New Situationists: a programme of commissions from Situations encouraging emerging artists to experiment and test out ideas in the public realm and to encourage thinking on where public art belongs, when and where it might take place. The proposal was chosen from over 50 applications by previous New Contemporaries artists since 2010 to produce a work to coincide with the opening of Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition.

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BC System was commissioned as part of New Situationists, a programme dedicated to supporting artists to experiment and to test out ideas in the public realm for the first time. Launched to coincide with the opening of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Spike Island, BC System were chosen to undertake the commission following an open-call to all New Contemporaries artists since 2010.

New Situationists is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Bloomberg New Contemporaries

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