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At the end of the 1990s the Ruskin School of Art received funding from a variety of sources for a series of visual arts projects that collectively formed part of the Millennium celebrations for Year of the Artist. Year of the Artist aimed to raise the status and profile of living artists by placing 1000 artists in 1000 residencies across the country, taking them out of the traditional spaces usually associated with art and placing them in unusual and surprising locations.
During the course of her residency, Catherine Yass collaborated with virologist William James at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. The outcome of that collaboration was the creation of a permanent, site-specific artwork for the department called Double Agent whose meaning refers both to the liquid reagents that James and his group use in their research and the catalytic agency of the artist. The accompanying guide features an essay on Double Agent by Janna Levin, Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
Commissioned by the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Ruskin School of Art and Artpoint Trust and supported by funding from the Arts Council of England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Sciart and Southern Arts.
