South Station Hoard

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 The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking ?artifacts,?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.

subjects: Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art,  Violence in art,  Gender identity in art,  Popular culture in art,  Archaeology in art,  Girls in art,  In art,  Violence dans l'art,  Identité sexuelle dans l'art,  Culture populaire dans l'art,  Archéologie dans l'art,  Filles dans l'art