Renshaw Hall, Liverpool, 22. 7. 1987, projection: 'Civil Defense', photo of installation as centrefold spread in Sphinx Magazine. Vol.72 Issue 6, (with article by A. Mitchell on the Allotment 'story'). The Allotment 3 intervention of a poem by Simon Cutts lasted for only the very brief period of one evening during the late summer of 1987. It was projected on the back wall of Renshaw Hall beyond the edge of Richard Long's Stone Field which occupied the whole of the building at the time. It was an interlude in the Allotment project, an interval between proposed installations. Although these never finally happened, there was a pre-occupation with the idea that a building and the use of its space could be a form of publication, an issuing of new forms within a more physical context. The list of potential projects being worked on at the time of its closure included a concert by Test Department, installations by Richard Serra and Antony Gormley, leading to the full rendition of the Allotment: multiple projects would take place simultaneously, with a small agricultural building for each one as an information and organisational centre, across the vast interior space of Renshaw Hall, producing a veritable magazine, an anthology of published parts.
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