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Fieldworks from the Museum of the Void - Experiments in the Event of an Archive.

White, N., 2010. Fieldworks from the Museum of the Void - Experiments in the Event of an Archive. [Show/Exhibition]

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Official URL: http://www.chelseaspace.org/archive/white-pr.html

Abstract

This exhibition was a research presentation of works made at Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI]base in Wendover, Utah, USA between 2008-2010. The project was commissioned by the Centre For Land Interpretation in USA and funded by The Henry Moore Foundation in the UK. Documentation of research conducted in the field as made available as video and installation. An experimental discourse on the preservation of land art was put with GPS drawings and research information displayed as maps and documents. In examining physical sites in Utah, USA, the project connected to contemporary discourse centred on archives in relation to land art and land use. Using experimental processes conceived in relation to key concepts such as event structures and entropy, conceptual frameworks developed by Robert Smithson (USA) and John Latham (UK), the 'death drive' of the archive was examined in the context of a cultural impulse to preserve iconic works. The work took items from Lathams archive and placed them at the canonical 'Spiral Jetty', Smithson land art work at Rozel Point north of Salt Lake City. This became a focus for the project that also highlighted the role of the Getty Foundation in documenting major public artworks and CLUI in creating an American Land Museum. Work was created in the field at extreme remote locations using GPS technologies and visual tools were developed to articulate the concepts of the artists discussed, to engage the exhibition audience in ideas of transformation and entropy in art. Audiences were encouraged to sign a petition to be used in future preservation of spiral jetty currently facing development challenges.

Item Type:Show/Exhibition
Event Title:White N. Fieldworks from the Museum of the Void - Experiments in the Event of an Archive
Event Location:Chelsea Space, University of the Arts
Event Dates:June 28 - July 26
Group:Faculty of Media & Communication
ID Code:19595
Deposited By: Mr Neal White LEFT
Deposited On:19 Mar 2012 12:51
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:43

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