SACRIFICE ZONE is a series of online commissions examing the links between artists and regeneration agendas. Free to download, the essays and artists' projects will offer a critical framework within which it is hoped a new, engaged dialogue will emerge.

With the shock-waves of economic crisis reverberating around the world, construction industries faltering and major development projects put on hold, a gap has opened in which debates about the complicity of art and artists in regeneration have taken on a new immediacy. To this end, the commissions you are invited to download over the coming year will sift through the ruins of regeneration agendas, pick over the bleached bones of mammoth, earth-shifting machinery, and gather the flotsam and jetsam abandoned by fleeing 'place makers'...

COMMISSIONS 1 and 2 December 2008
Craig Martin, Moments not Monuments		Kennedy Browne, Episode 306: Dallas, Belfast
This essay takes as its central focus the importance of the 'temporary' in understanding the dynamic quality of city space. In particular the problem of regeneration and permanency is addressed through looking at the critcal methods adopted by Arcade, its curatorial approach and artworks; these articulations of the temporary are a valuable means to reconfigure the place of the art object within the discourse on regeneration, in part through producing a rather more 'spectral' appreciation of the fleeting experiences of the city. Moments not Monuments PDF(500kb)		Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy have produced an iteration of their Episode 306: Dallas, Belfast project. Initially realised as a video work this was a re-enactment of a fragment of a script from 1980s TV series Dallas, staged in Belfast’s soon to be redeveloped 'Titanic Quarter'. Implicitly addressing issues of prosperity, regeneration and choice, this publication transforms a selection of the video work and research produced on site into a graphic novel of sorts. Completely black and white, it is designed to be easily reproduced on a domestic printer. Episode 306: Dallas, Belfast PDF(9mb)