Filed under: Dispatches, Elizabeth Masterton, Gazetteer, Happidrome 4 | Tags: buildings, decay, Drytree, Elizabeth Masterton, heritage, radar, research, writing, WW2
Elizabeth Masterton has been working with researcher Benjamin Oldcorn to unravel the mysteries of some of the derelict buildings on the RAF Drytree site. The RAF Dry Tree/Goonhilly NNR Building Identification Project report was commissioned by Natural England to form the basis of new interpretative material for visitors to the site. The report includes the buildings earmarked for inclusion on a new walking route around the site, and doesn’t cover everything, but it’s a good start. Please do get in touch if you have any information regarding RAF Drytree or identifications for any of the buildings we’ve missed.
Photos by Benjamin Oldcorn.
HAPPIDROME THREE took place across the Summer of 2009 and encompassed animation, film, video, sculpture, sound, installation, performance, participation, flooding, raving, perambulating and er..shouting. Some of the events were open to the public, others were private events, or for invited audiences, in order for artists to experiment with emerging ideas. Artists were given access to the blog to present research and musings, as well as documentation of the works in situ. Read on for artist’s blogs, or peruse by name…
In the midst of the dreary waste of Gornhilly, which occupies a large portion of the Lizard promontory, is a large piece of water known as “Croft Pasco Pool,” where it said at night the form of a ghostly vessel may be seen floating with lug-sails spread. A more dreary, weird spot could hardly be selected for a witches’ meeting; and the Lizard folks were always – a fact – careful to be back before dark, preferring to suffer inconvenience, to risking a sight of the ghostly lugger. Unbelieving people attributed the origin of the tradition to a white horse seen in a dim twilight standing in the shallow water; but this was indignantly rejected by the mass of the residents.
Popular Romances of the West of England; the drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall (1865)
Robert Hunt (1807-1887)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
G.M. Hopkins (1844-89)
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent this night!
What sights you, heart saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.
With witness I speak this.
But where I say hours I mean years, mean life.
And my lament is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent to dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn.
God’s most deep decree bitter would have me taste: my taste was me.
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours.
I see the lost are like this, and their scourge to be as I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
Filed under: Gazetteer, Rupert White | Tags: buildings, bunkers, computing, dark, inside, Mapping, tests
Rupert White has created an interactive 3D model of the interior of the R-Block, entitled ‘Digidrome’ (stills shown above). You can navigate around the building via the following link:
http://www.rupertwhite.co.uk/virtual_worlds/Digidrome.html
(requires download of a free web player)
Rupert has suggested that aspects of ‘Digidrome’ could evolve or adapt over time…other objects could be introduced into it in response to suggestions by artists or visitors. Theoretically any text, 2D image file or 3D object or could be introduced. If you any ideas of what you’d like to manifest in the building then contact us.
Filed under: Paul Carter and Alexandra Zierle | Tags: happ(i)nings, inside, outside, Paul Carter & Alexandra Zierle, performance
Performance stills from ‘In Search of the Other’. All images by Oliver Rudkin. For more images, visit the artists’ website http://www.zierlecarterliveart.com/
Filed under: Elizabeth Masterton, The17 | Tags: communications, events, happ(i)nings, outside, performance, The17
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The17 are:
Jonny Ambrose
Caitlin Desilvey
Sara Gadd
Christine Haven
Caroline Healy
Jessie Higginson
Lisa Lucas
Elizabeth Masterton
Eric Masterton
Hannah Maughan-Robb
Carol Patten
Lizzie Ridout
Bryony Rogerson
Andy Rossiter
Katherine Smith
Adam Stringer
Mike Westley
Thanks to you all for taking part.
To find out more about The17, visit http://the17.org
Filed under: Catherine Bagg | Tags: Animation, Catherine Bagg, exhibtions, goonhilly, installation, Mapping, radar, Stars
Here are some photos of my piece in situ at the Happidrome this Saturday.
Here we stand, drops a radar beam back through the history of the Goonhilly Downs through the period that the Dry Tree has stood on the site. It consists of three simultaneous animations; one circles the Dry Tree Megalith, one records the transitions of the stars across the sky from Goonhilly over a year once every hundred years, starting from the night of the exhibition and running back to 300BC the approximate date of the Dry Tree’s original erection. And the other fades back through views of the maps of the area from the modern OS map back to Gascoyne’s map, the earliest known map of the area. This animation is intended to show some of the key events that happened around the site, currently including the building of Arthur and the passing of the Spanish Armada.
View of the three animations
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- View of the three animations
Map of all the chain home stations, the first radar stations (pre rotating radar beams). They worked together creating a chain of interconnecting beams which covered the whole British coast line. Dry Tree is marked merits two separate labels.
Filed under: Nicholas Wootton
On the importance of information as the fundamental construct of solidity
Alluding to the creation event and the nature of matter.
Dimensions variable. IKEA flat pack.
Filed under: Nicholas Wootton
Font of all wisdom
The viewer is invited to drink from the unfixed and upturned glass.
Cast acrylic, polycarbonate, water. 125cm x 8cm.
Filed under: Nicholas Wootton
The essential guide to the meaning of life (Vol 1)
Reference books relating to religion, theoretical physics and philosophy. A geology of sophistry.
Paper. 126cm x 20cm x 12cm.
Filed under: Nicholas Wootton
10 to the minus 37
The title refers to the moment the universe began to expand (0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds). The sculpture is life size, give or take a few centimeters, of the universe at that moment. The sphere contains a radioactive core of Radium isotope 226, once used to illuminate watch hands, to tell time in the dark.
Lead, Radioactive core (Radium, isotope 226). 40cm x 40cm.
Filed under: Elizabeth Masterton | Tags: Animation, dark, Elizabeth Masterton, light, projection
New work presented last weekend at HAPPIDROME; this time WITH sound. The images below show a glimpse of how the projection interacted with the fabric of the building, a little window on dilapidation. They remind me of prints that I made at the RCA of pillbox loopholes.
Filed under: Elizabeth Masterton | Tags: Elizabeth Masterton, events, language, powerpoint
New work presented at HAPPIDROME this weekend. It looked great projected on the wall of the bunker.
