A Moving Image Programme - final week : Tacita Dean

23 Jun-29 Jun 2020

Overview

To mark the final week of our special online Moving Image Programme, we are returning to where we began by presenting a work by Tacita Dean. For one week we are pleased to make available the audio work Trying to Find the Spiral Jetty, 1998. Tacita Dean journeyed to the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah in the hope of being able to witness the rumoured resurfacing of Robert Smithson’s seminal and long submerged earthwork, the Spiral Jetty. The resulting sound work Trying to find the Spiral Jetty is based on recordings made during the car journey with a friend, following detailed directions, supplemented with later embellishments. The aural experience of their quest is therefore a fusion of fact and fiction, befitting the elusive nature of their goal. Whether the set of directions were followed correctly or not is unclear, but the projection Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah records the site at the end of the journey and shows no trace of the jetty.