What art have I seen?

Posted in Exhibitions, News, Sited work by chrisfremantle on August 30, 2013

Cinema Sark, Prof Pete Smith and John Wallace, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle

Cinema Sark, Prof Pete Smith and John Wallace, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle

Cinema Sark at the Environmental Art Festival Scotland. It’s not often that video presented as sited work so elegantly uses it’s setting, or so engrosses the viewer. This work is a meditation on the many dimensions of the Sark, the river that divides Scotland and England in the West. The space under the M6 motorway is both a constant reminder of the context, but also an ideal location for the screening.

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