"Re:mote - Relationship between Land and Place"
2001-11-30 until 2002-01-19
Photographers' Gallery
London, , UK

The term Re:mote refers to a location that is far away and distant; a distance of time; a relationship to far off-kin and a term used to refer to operating systems controlled remotely. This show considers the complex relationship between land and place investigating its mediation through technology.

Many of the artists follow the romantic tendency to return to nature and replicate wild rural idylls; others reveal the artifice of landscape. The impetus for some are the politics of land - using technology to highlight issues about polluted dumping grounds and nuclear wastelands. Threaded through is the experience of long-distance forms of communication which can simultaneously collapse barriers of space, location and time whilst creating a sense of alienation and isolation.

As part of this exhibition, Re: mote,The Photographers' Gallery is developing a project with artist, Erwin Wurm and The Media Centre, Huddersfield, for which participants are required. If you have a mobile phone and would like to subscribe to a free text messaging list to develop an artwork for the exhibition please email camilla@photonet.org.uk.

IMAGE:
David Phillips and Paul Rowley
Carbon 12, video still

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