Phil Dadson

Aerial Farm (2004)

21 min 8 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"Wind generated aeolian tones from a circular aerial communications mast and multiple wires. Mast and wires appear as a shifting, illusory graphic outline against a background of ice & intermittent snow-drift. Audio consists of a wide frequency band of tones activated by a 50k wind."

Artist's statement

Selected exhibitions

  • Art from Antarctica, Brazil, Germany (2009)

  • Sur Polar, Buenos Aires (2006)

  • Tapping the Pulse, Philip Dadson works 1971-2004, New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington (2005).

  • Various showings throughout NZ as part of Polar Projects.

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