Test Space, Spike Island 11 - 26 March 2017
In January
2017, Test Space International and Volkskammer, Berlin presented Operation
Skye, a series of works, performances and interactions which took place at
Kilmuir, North Skye, Scotland.
Operation
Skye takes its
title from the 1944 code name for the World War II radio deception component of
Fortitude North, which simulated radio traffic between fictional army units. In
this exhibition, the artists chose to respond – or not – to this history,
taking into account the vagaries of the weather, geology, morphology and myths
associated with this westerly location.
Skye
2 forms the
second part of this exhibition, relocating these works (or what remains of
them) to the more traditional gallery environment of Spike Island’s Test Space.
Here they are stripped of their original context, where the unpredictable
weather and variable light levels dominated the works to the extent that some
were impossible to install, and others were damaged or destroyed.
The exhibition
includes work by artists Julian Claxton, Tom Goddard, Helen Grant, Will
Kendrick, Jo Lathwood, Milo Newman and Natasha Rosling, Mark Samsworth, Solveig
Settemsdal
As the rain lashed down the gentle
curves of the dish uncurled into a flat untuned disc. The high wind took the machine and it flew
across the field at a rate of knots, both urgent an immaculate. Single channel, sound, configured for 48 seconds during exhibition.
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