The Jerwood/Artangel Open, a new commissioning initiative for the arts, was launched in the summer of 2006 in association with Channel 4 and Arts Council England. It became the catalyst for almost one thousand proposals by artists working across all media, each conceived for different sits and situations around Britain

The first of the four selected Open commissions is Ruth Ewan’s Did you kiss the foot that kicked you? Produced by Artangel Interaction, the work involves over one hundred musicians and buskers in a co-ordinated performance across London. The series of questions set to music in Ewan MacColl’s Ballad of Accounting is posed to rush hour commuters travelling through the mechanical heart of the city during a working week.

Ruth Ewan’s Did You Kiss the Foot that Kissed You? was commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England in association with Channel 4.

Artangel has pioneered a new way of collaborating with artists and engaging audiences in an ambitious series of highly successful commissions since the early 1990s, animating different environments with compelling experiences for a large and disparate public. Artangel Interaction develops projects and events that extend opportunities for collaboration and participation. www.artangel.org.uk

Artangel is generously supported by: Arts Council England
The Company of Angels
The Artangel International Circle: The Cranford Collection, Guy and Andrea Dellal, Joe and Marie Donnelly, Mala and Oliver Haarmann, David and Sarah Kowitz, Jennifer McSweeney, Catherine and Franck Petitgas, Pascale Revert and Peter Wheeler, Cora and Kaveh Sheibani, Iwan and Manuela Wirth, Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, and Michael Zilkha.