TY - CONF
T1 - The Quarry
AU - Danby, Charles
AU - Smith, Rob
N1 - Co-author with Rob Smith of the Symposium: Revisiting the Quarry: Excavation, Legacy and Return. Approaches to the histories and sites of Land Art.
Symposium website and collected material including audio recordings: http://www.thequarry.org.uk
ABSTRACT:
This one-day symposium, led by artists Charles Danby and Rob Smith, in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79’ (5 April - 15 June 2014), has been organised in collaboration with the Arts Council Collection, Northumbria University and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The symposium considers evolving contexts of contemporary arts practice in relation to the history and legacies of British Land Art. It asks what it is to re-visit a site and what it is that marks a site. It brings together theoretical and practical positions in relation to the dug-out land sites of chalk and limestone quarries, focusing on approaches leading to the production and presentation of artworks, films, documents, and archives, through text, audio, collected materials and field recordings. The symposium considers the quarry as a site – single and multiple - of new relations and active potential, and through analogy as a container. It examines historical, material, and social revision through changing land use, parallel narratives, and post-industrial / post-ecological occupation.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Charles Danby, Department of Fine Art, Northumbria University, and Rob Smith, artist and co-director of Field Broadcast. Collaborators since 2012.
Our work through film, photography and site-extracted material objects investigates processes of being-in and moving through remote and contained land sites, unraveling and reframing proposals central to British Land Art activities of the 1960s/70s in respect of evolving media technologies, altered relationships to site, and new conceptions of document and archive. Our recent exhibitions include The Quarry, IMT, London, 2013 and Site Exploration, Cube, Leicester, 2014. Our presentation looks at how we entered and approached the mythical sites of Robert Smithson’s only work produced in Britain, Chalk-Displacement-Mirror (1969). It considers the multiple sites of the work (actual and fictional) across time and geographic distribution, examining their post-industrial status as material sites, and how new forms of agency can be generated through site re-visitation, fieldwork, and artwork production. It considers our art practice in relation to positions of land reparation and the commercial housing development plans for the quarry site of Smithson’s artwork.
AB - Charles Danby, Department of Fine Art, Northumbria University, and Rob Smith, artist and co-director of Field Broadcast. Collaborators since 2012.
Our work through film, photography and site-extracted material objects investigates processes of being-in and moving through remote and contained land sites, unraveling and reframing proposals central to British Land Art activities of the 1960s/70s in respect of evolving media technologies, altered relationships to site, and new conceptions of document and archive. Our recent exhibitions include The Quarry, IMT, London, 2013 and Site Exploration, Cube, Leicester, 2014. Our presentation looks at how we entered and approached the mythical sites of Robert Smithson’s only work produced in Britain, Chalk-Displacement-Mirror (1969). It considers the multiple sites of the work (actual and fictional) across time and geographic distribution, examining their post-industrial status as material sites, and how new forms of agency can be generated through site re-visitation, fieldwork, and artwork production. It considers our art practice in relation to positions of land reparation and the commercial housing development plans for the quarry site of Smithson’s artwork.
M3 - Paper
T2 - Revisiting the Quarry: Excavation, Legacy, Return. Approaches to the histories and sites of Land Art
Y2 - 1 January 2014
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