Aerial Farm is part of Auckland artist Phil Dadson’s Polar Projects, a series of sound and video installations that capture through aural and visual imagery a sense of what it is like to exist in the Antarctic. Dadson, a sound, video and performance artist, camped for a week in the Dry Valleys, recording the visual and audio elements of the landscape as part of his 2003 Artist Fellowship in Antarctica.
“Mostly the valley seems silent, with only a background hiss of pink noise to accompany the intrusive sounds of my body, my footsteps. No bird or animal noises, only occasional ice snaps and explosive retorts from the splintering glacial-face and the lakes of frozen seepage from the melt” – Dadson wrote his diary.
Review:Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery
10 August – 14 October 2007