Converse Column, University of Leeds, 2018
New public art commission
The University of Leeds commissioned Liliane Lijn to create a new work of public art for its campus.
Lijn’s Converse Column, a nine-meter high revolving column of transforming words, is sited adjacent to Nexus, the University’s new centre, designed to inspire collaboration and innovation with real world impact.
Converse Column references Lijn’s iconic early 1960’s Poem Machines and, more recently, her Poemdrums that spin and disengage words from the composed text.
Lijn called on staff and students to contribute ideas and to help create text for the artwork.
The artwork was unveiled in autumn 2018 with the opening of the building.
Read more about the commission here
