"Steel factory workers blur the line between work and play. A two channel, video installation produced by Phil Dadson in collaboration with factory employees of Schmidstche Schack (Arvos group)—a heavy steel manufacturing plant in Kassel, Germany—to make a percussion ensemble in the factory.Produced for WERK/KUNST/WERK, an exhibition in Kassel facilitated by the regional Metal and Electrics Industry—July 2015. Supported by Schmidstche Schack (Arvos group), CNZ Arts Council of New Zealand, with thanks to the participating workers."
"Steel factory workers blur the line between work and play. A two channel, video installation produced by Phil Dadson in collaboration with factory employees of Schmidstche Schack (Arvos group)—a heavy steel manufacturing plant in Kassel, Germany—to make a percussion ensemble in the factory.
Produced for WERK/KUNST/WERK, an exhibition in Kassel facilitated by the regional Metal and Electrics Industry—July 2015. Supported by Schmidstche Schack (Arvos group), CNZ Arts Council of New Zealand, with thanks to the participating workers."
Demo for installation via two large LCD screens or two-screen projection.
Anandagram (meaning ‘blissful place or village’) is a wry take on a situation of implicit privilege.
An upside-down world view intersecting ecology, geometry, nature, signs and portents.
Seventeen hot air balloons and a brass band.
A synchronised two screen installation, contrasting a birth and a death.