{"id":950451,"date":"2026-05-10T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:54:25","slug":"situation-leeds-the-listening-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950451\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation Leeds: The Listening City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6283.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s writing \u2018Sous le Pave les Plage\u2019 I wrote about how the French postman Ferdinand Cheval turned work, and the public environment into a game. This game, which to many will have seemed either pointless or a sign of madness, resulted in an incredible artwork\/folly in the \u2018Palais Ideal\u2019 and the inspiration for French Dadaist Andre Breton to create the Situationist International; and organisation that placed the public realm at the heart of artistic practice. In doing so the public realm became integral to creative activity, artwork produced in public that could involve the public and gave people a more phenomenological experience of the city. The studio was no longer a site of isolation, contemplation away from the crowds, and could instead be a public activity that drew other people, wittingly and unwittingly into its orbit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-171158 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6296-e1778412561220.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"936\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Situation Leeds was a city wide festival of artistic production and exhibition across numerous sites, some of which were traditional spaces for art, some of which were not. At the heart of this was the fusion of artistic practice with public engagement. Twenty years on Situation Leeds returns to the city. As part of this, BasementArtsProject is going to be bringing you a number of projects.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of weeks Artist Garry Barker has been providing Basement with a number of ceramic ears which we have been hiding all over \u2018The Corner\u2019 Pocket Sculpture Park and in a nearby street -you\u2019ll have to guess which one, but it should not be difficult to guess.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6295-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/>We encourage you to come along over the course of the next couple of weeks and hunt down the ears. If you find them, don\u2019t tell others where they are and don\u2019t take them, leave them hidden, photograph them and post them to Instagram tagging BasementArtsProject and South Leeds Life. In your post feel free to say something -if you want- about how you might want the city to hear your voice. Otherwise, just enjoy the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>We are having a whole series of events on Saturday 16th May on \u2018The Corner\u2019 Pocket Sculpture Park that will involve Garry (come and chat to him and his ears) Kate Jennings (more on her painting project project tomorrow) and, as it goes dark in the evening an outdoor film screening by the Ad Hoch collective.<\/p>\n<p>As always with Basement, everything is free so just come along and enjoy yrslvs.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday 19th May, BasementArtsProject will also be opening a new exhibition as part of Situation Leeds by Artist Lane Shipsey. Hard Shoulder Motorway City will be an intimate series of portraits of the area that is South Leeds. But more on that later this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/page0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"188\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In yesterday\u2019s writing \u2018Sous le Pave les Plage\u2019 I wrote about how the French postman Ferdinand Cheval turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-950451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116550388182549988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}