EUROPEAN PUBLIC ART CENTRE: EPAC

The European Public Art Centre (EPAC) is a collaborative engagement between organisations across Europe focusing on intersections between art, science and society.  It consists of nine outdoor exhibition spaces established in participating countries that include UK, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Iceland.  The stands are installed in nine public spaces hosting artworks as part of establishing the first ever Europe-wide contemporary art venue.

Anne Brodie, 'Bee Box', 2011, London, UK (photo: C-LAB)

Bee Box offers a poetic reflection on the fragility of bee communities. It was shown in Helsinki, with Finnish bees, during the second phase of the EPAC programme, which involved a rotation of artworks between participating countries.

Ben Dromney, Mina Arko and Jari Suominen, 'CityBeat', 2011, Helsinki, Finland (photo: Till Boverman)

CityBeat reflects on the meaningful connections between the individual and cities where audience can feel live recordings or the ‘citybeats’ Helsinki, London, Riga and Lisbon. C-LAB facilitated the London soundscape recordings. This work was shown in Riga during the second phase.

Gints Gibrans, 'The Nerves', 2011, Riga, Latvia (photo:Ieva Štrale)

The Nerves employs impulses of colours that are transmitted through optical fibre at a speed where we are unable to convey the distinctions between impulses and tones. This work was shown in Lisbon during the second phase.

António Caramelo, 'Dreaming of a Butterfly', 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

His work captures the interactive movements of mechanical butterflies reacting to surroundings giving an illusion of living butterflies. C-LAB is delighted to present this work in Spitalfields  and it is currently on show till February 2012.

Andrus Lauringson, 'Infinite Copyright', 2011, Tallin, Estonia

The work deals with the often outdated copyright concepts in a time when technology for reproducing creative work is far more effective than what was described in the infinite monkey theorem. 

Elzbieta Wysakowska-Walters, 'Amulet - Spiritual Death Protection Object', 2012, Lodz, Poland

A bullet with the name of Lodz engraved on its case inside the glass box sits in front of The Grand Theatre in the centre of Lodz. 

Adalsteinn Stefansson, 'Grabbing the Void', 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland

The work deals plays on an Icelandic phrase - "to grab emptiness/nothing". A crane is seen moving around the box attempting to grab....nothing. 

Martynas Gaubas, 'The Emigration', 2012 (photo: Erminijus Krasucki)

The sculpture symbolising love, waiting and longing was created for those who have emigrated Lithuania. 

Lara Fluxà, 'Dynamic Levels of Continuous Compensations', 2012 (photo: Lara Fluxà Garcia)Consisting of a sculptural triptych, the artwork reflects on the possibility of conceiving an equilibrium in a dynamic sense - as a system of constant compensations.