My
wife is so proud of me... 2002-05
In the summer of 2002, tectonic industries measured
and detailed the grounds of the house in Wisconsin in which
they were then living. A grid system was drawn up, dividing
the property into 130 squares, each measuring 10 x 10 feet.
From September 4th to October 14th, 2002, each square was systematically
searched using a metal detector. When an item was located,
a numbered flag was placed into the ground, and a photograph
taken using a Polaroid camera. Each item was then dug up and
documented, with the date, time and position of the find recorded.
tectonic industries is a collaborative art partnership founded in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1999 by Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow. The members
moved away from Europe in 2001, and currently live and work in St Paul,
USA.
The fundamental concerns of tectonic industries relate to the
sometimes tenuous relationship between artifice, reality
and artificial representations of
reality. A specific scenario has a number of factors removed, replaced
or distorted to present an environment of calculated heightened artificiality.
Iconic motifs are chosen to stand in for, and represent, the myriad of
diverse meanings and interpretations of a given situation. The reality-substitution
is instantaneously recognised as containing the essence of that which
it replaces. The iconic images are perceived as "more real" than
the reality which they have come to represent.
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