There was a film of the making of the Spiral Jetty in the Radical Nature exhibition at the Barbican this summer.
What struck me was the JCBs, the heavy industrial technology being used to create this earthly sculpture. There's something enchanting about watching machines dance. Which makes me think of Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer's 'First Light', where they choreographed the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Nrux8O5kk For me, there's something very Dark Mountain about work which plays with the astonishing distances of time involved in astronomy or geology. D. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Lauren A Wright <[email protected]>wrote: > "The scale of the Spiral Jetty tends to fluctuate depending on where > the viewer happens to be. Size determines an object, but scale > determines art. A crack in the wall if viewed in terms of scale, not > size, could be called the Grand Canyon. A room could be made to take > on the immensity of the solar system. Scale depends on one’s capacity > to be conscious of the actualities of perception. When one refuses to > release scale from size, one is left with an object or language that > appears to be certain. For me scale operates by uncertainty. To be in > the scale of the Spiral Jetty is to be out of it." - Robert Smithson, > "Spiral Jetty," 1972 > > -- > Lauren A Wright > 83a Kimberley Gardens > London N4 1LD > +44 (0)79 8129 2734 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Dougald Hine - http://dougald.co.uk/
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