Theory of Margin 2
High Angle Battery intervention
This recording is a quick mix from an open-ended collaboration with artists David Rogers, ivon oates, Caitlin Copeland and myself to perform a sonic intervention at High Angle Battery on Portland.
We arrived on a cold, but bright sunny day and proceed to investigate the tunnels. Some rules had been put in place, one was that we were to take no instruments in with us except for our microphones and recorders. Second was that we were all to start recording at the same time. What you hear here is each of our tracks, synched together and overlaid with little editing.
Coordinates for High Angle Battery: 50.5581, -2.4334
b-side commission
I’m excited to have finally secured a b-side commission to “celebrate Weymouth and Portland’s natural environment by mapping the landscape into a generative artwork. My idea is informed by contemporary visual art, combined with mapmaking and GPS recording the landscape, to combine all this into a new generative artwork. This proposal brings my experience of previous artworks, in particular my abstract animations, which have been widely seen since they won first prize at Sherborne House Open in 2006, and aspects of the School Looks Around (which included students mapping their emotional landscape and interpreting Dartmoor).
Taking Paul Klee’s famous statement “take a line for a walk”, I would utilize GPS recorded walks through Weymouth and Portland, to capture the landscape and then re-represent this captured data in a mobile app that would play the data in new exciting ways. This work would also be rendered as a film and a set of limited edition prints. Exploring the pictorial nature of maps and map making, whilst also referencing the tradition of landscape painting and contemporary art.
This is an exciting new work in my ongoing digital media practice. It pulls together different areas of my artistic practice, combining my interest in finding new ways for contemporary art to be seen outside the traditional gallery space and ways to attract diverse audience to view ‘art’. I have come to see works like my bus tour and the performances that happened on Dartmoor as an exciting avenue for new audiences to discover and even be a part of an artwork.
b-side is part of the Cultural Olympiad in the South West – the ‘Maritime Mix’ - http://www.maritimemix2012.co.uk.
