Earthworks
Description: Digital video or 16mm
Exhibition mode: Option 1 (Cinema): 16mm film projection. Option 2 (Gallery): Digital video projection or LCD flatscreen. Loop optional.
Media details: SD Digital video conversion from 16mm Ektachrome film. Ratio: 4:3. Stereo audio.
EARTHWORKS (1971/72) A simultaneous, ten minute performance & recording event – co-incided with autumn and spring equinoxes, on the 23 or 24th of Sept – (depending on the longitude of location) 1971 – proposed for 1800 hours G.M.T at 15 diverse earth locations representing a diversity of physical phenomena on earth re: altitude, latitude & longitude. The event aimed to capture a temporary instant in the continuum of universal ebb and flow.
Concept/Editor: Phil Dadson
Camera: IB Heller and Leon Narbey (1971)
Edited by Phil Dadson with stills and audio received from project participants (1972)
Selected Exhibitions:
Concertina, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland (2006)
Tapping the Pulse Philip Dadson works 1971-2004, New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington (2005)
Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum of Art, New York (1999)
Headlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1992)