We are currently working to create a new screen based installation commissioned by Junction Arts (Derbyshire, UK) to celebrate the
conclusion of the three year Limestone Journeys project.
The Installation will explore the relationship between people, history and geology through a multi media installation. It will use the areas unique heritage and biodiversity as a catalyst and inspiration. In addition we will introduce the notion of personal exploration and discovery by incorporating an interactive element where some of the information will be hidden and only revealed if the audience reveal it.
The
Limestone Journeys Area.
The
Derbyshire Magnesian Limestone occurs in the north east of the county as a
narrow belt of elevated land, approximately 10km wide by 20km in length, which
runs between Barlborough in the north to Hardwick and Pleasley in the south.
The topography of the industrial coalfields in the west contrasts strongly with
the low-lying regions of Nottinghamshire to the east.
The
Limestone Journeys Project Partnership
comprises: Derbyshire County Council, Community Voluntary Partnership, Natural
England, Bolsover District Council, Bolsover Countryside Partnership,
Groundwork Creswell, and Junction Arts, with Creswell Heritage Trust acting as
the lead organisation.
LEVEL
has been commissioned to create three digital installations in collaboration
with learning disabled people exploring aspects of the project.
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Installation Details.
Limestone
Journeys (III) will comprise a 10 minute film shown on a large screen/screens
together with three plinths each supporting a clear glass vessel containing
soil/rock samples taken from three locations on the Limestone Journey from
Pleasley to Creswell Crags. The plinths
will be placed at the front of the installation to create a relationship
between them and the screen/screens.
The
Film.
This
will be structured with three sections each with a focus on a specific location
within the Magnesian Limestone Area.
Section
I – Pleasley Mills
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| Image: Pleasely Mills (Mill 1) |
Section II – t.b.c
A site somewhere between Pleasley and Creswell.
Section III – Creswell Crags
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| Image: Creswell Crags - showing the cave containing cave paintings |
Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in theravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe.
The caves contain occupation layers with evidence of flint tools from the Mousterian, proto-Solutrean, Creswellian and Maglemosian cultures. They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. Evidence of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman and post-medieval activity has also been found there. There is evidence of Neanderthal occupation 50,000–60,000 years ago, a brief Gravettian occupation around 32,000 years ago and use of all the main caves during the Magdalenian around 14,000 years ago.[1] The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves, including a stuffed cave hyena. (source Wikipedia)
Each
section will feature still and video images of the location, macro images of
the geology together with a short performance where the costume and materials
are derived/relate to the location.
The
Plinths
The
plinths will provide information about the three locations together with an
analysis of three soil/stone samples (if the information from the samples is of
any interest). The information will be written using paint sensitive to
ultraviolet light and will only be revealed by shining an ultra violet torch at
it.
Information
may be written or in picture format using symbols as information (a key will be
provided to translate the symbols into meaning).
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