The Rock Room Slade Takeover 2016
27 May 2016
For the past three years MA Sculpture students from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Slade School of Fine Art have been involved in an experiment creating work influenced by the Rock Room, the Geology Collections and the Earth Science Department at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø.
This year marks the fourth instalment of the project, and the . The theme of the 2016 Rock Room Slade Takeover was 'Poison' which came about after another pop-up event in the rock room, with . This event related to their project which aims at providing safe drinking water to a rural community in Mexico whose drinking water was contaminated with fluoride and arsenic. The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Slade students built on some of the work covered in that event.
There were some standout pieces created during the takeover, which included a copy of a jadeite Neolithic axe head found in Somerset, which was made of ice and charcoal and designed to melt over the course of the day. Another piece was a homemade geode which was placed inside one of the cases along with 'real' specimens.
Every year the resultant one day pop-up event has been totally different from the last, .
Nick Booth, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Public and Cultural Engagement