The South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains

Carlee A. Bradbury
punctum books
2014-12-27

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 The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking “artifacts,” and photographed the entire process.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.

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  • Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art
  • futurist archeology
  • tween culture
  • hoards
  • Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
  • cultural theory
  • gender studies

The South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains

Carlee A. Bradbury

punctum books

2014-12-27

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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 The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking “artifacts,” and photographed the entire process.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.

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Topics

  • Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art
  • futurist archeology
  • tween culture
  • hoards
  • Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
  • cultural theory
  • gender studies