File 3 - Route 12:36

Photographs of the group exhibition Route 12:36 which took place at the South London Gallery from 29 March to 4 April 1999. It included works by Grennan & Sperandio, by the artist group Blast Theory and Faisal Abdu' Allah. Route 12:36 was a project consisting of a series of art works in the advertising spaces on Routemaster buses Nos. 12 & 36, both buses passing the South London Gallery. Abdu Allah was commissioned to produce a website of images, sound and text which was then advertised on the buses. Passengers were invited to access the website via their own personal computers or from a terminal which was sited at the gallery for the duration of the project. Audiences selected their two favourites images, the most favourite images were then displayed on the buses. The aim of the project was to provide an experience of the contemporary art within an urban context outside the usual gallery space and attracting new audiences both within London and further afield. Grennan & Sperandio's three portraits - in a cartoon format - outlined the reasons why three passengers used the route n. 12. By putting up superimposed questions Blast Theory's piece invited passengers to call a number and leave their responses attempting to build a more intimate relationship between passengers. Faisal Abdu' Allah's Project X directed passengers to a website which featured a game of memory, inviting he viewer to put names to the faces of bus drivers and leave comments.