Editing University of Warwick (section)

====Koan====
[[File:Helen Martin Arts Studio.jpg|right|thumb|The ''Koan'' in front of the Helen Martin Arts Studio]]
The ''White Koan'' is a modern art sculpture by [[Liliane Lijn]] which is installed outside the back entrance to the Warwick Arts Centre.<ref name=Lijn>{{cite web|url=http://www.lilianelijn.com/whi01.html|title=Lilian Lijn, Work|access-date=9 July 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080423015338/http://www.lilianelijn.com/whi01.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 23 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/lilianelijn/wu0133/|title=University of Warwick Art Collection, White Koan|access-date=9 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803212907/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/lilianelijn/wu0133/|archive-date=3 August 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Koan'' is {{convert|6|m|ft}} high,<ref name=Lijn/> white in colour, decorated with elliptical of [[fluorescent light]]s and is rotated by an electric motor whilst illuminated. It is intended to represent the Buddhist quest for questions without answers, the [[Kōan]]. The ''Koan'' was made in 1971 as part of the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation City Sculpture Project and was originally sited in Plymouth; it moved to the [[Hayward Gallery]] in London before being purchased by Warwick in 1972.<ref name=Lijn/> 

The ''Koan'' was temporarily relocated to the university's Gibbet Hill campus during refurbishments to the Warwick Arts Centre; it was returned upon completion of the project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/warwickshire/news/warwick-arts-centres-white-koan-goes-on-the-move/38694|title=Warwick Arts Centre's White Koan goes on the move|website=www.whatsonlive.co.uk|access-date=19 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419103128/https://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/warwickshire/news/warwick-arts-centres-white-koan-goes-on-the-move/38694|archive-date=19 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> According to student newspaper ''[[The Boar (newspaper)|The Boar]]'', the white Koan has played a role in many of campus' myths and legends – it was allegedly the nose-cap of the [[Blue Streak (missile)|Blue-Streak Missile]], a supposed quick escape route for senior staff, and even a signalling device for aliens in outer space.<ref name="theboar.org">{{cite web |last1=Mitchell |first1=Ellie |title=Koan has returned to Warwick Arts Centre |url=https://theboar.org/2021/12/koan-returned-warwick-arts/ |website=[[The Boar (newspaper)|The Boar]]}}</ref>
The ''Koan'' even garnered its own cartoon strip in the 1990s, with thirty-two episodes created by Steve Shipway.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Steve |first1=Shipway |title=The Incredible Adventures of the Koan of Warwick |url=http://www.steveshipway.org/writings/koan/ |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref> The Koan Worshipping Society, led by the Koanists, believe the ''Koan'' is “the earth-bound manifestation of the immortal Koan, the creator of the universe”.<ref name="theboar.org"/>