re: heavy industrial technology being used to create this earthly sculpture
19 years ago On the road from Truro, 2 miles from Penzance, we all commented on a nauseating, sweet, dark smell that was developing in the car. Already overwhelmed by the first whiff, we were engulfed in growing waves of intense stench. Three JCBs hacked away at the carcass of a beached whale on the beach near the town centre. It had been rotting for weeks, the high tide too low to carry it away. Once we got up-wind of it we stood for hours watching and sketching as the machines did their disgusting work until the light faded. -----Original Message----- From: dougald hine <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO - Spiral Jetty at the Dark Mountain Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:18:52 +0000 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/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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