Aint No love in the Heart of the City
Art and Urban Regeneration
Cardiff Bay Trust Wales

Somewhere, out there, in even the most developed city, are scraps of urban space that are empty, peripheral or simply wasted. They are the gaps between buildings, at the side of highways and byways, at the back of expensive developments and on your own doorstep. Large and small, open and closed, often just out of the public's gaze or consciousness, they exist in suburbia, shopping centres, back streets, parks and gardens, and in municipal communities everywhere. Somehow, someone has forgotten to care about these inner-city spaces.

Aint no Love In The Heart Of The City places contemporary artists in found spaces in Cardiff for a series of temporary public art projects to coincide with the Urban Legacies conference in May 2004, organised by CBAT the Arts and Regeneration agency.

The Facility worked with a series of artists to create works from found objects and place them in new public contexts throughout the city. We then tracked the works as local people interacted with them, moved them and took them for their own until they disappeared.