| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 27 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Illuminations Media in 2008. |
| Summary |
Often using subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy, Conrad Shawcross's structural and often mechanical sculptures, question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems ubiquitous within our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his often complex mechanised systems in the end deny all rational function and so the viewer is forced down philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce a 'rasion d'etre'. From early works such as The Nervous System, 2002 - a monumental spinning machine that endlessly weaves a length of coloured rope into the form of a double helix, the shape of DNA - to his recent giant spiral work Continuum, 2004, the artist has attempted to visualize, among other things, the incomprehensible of human concerns, time. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Shawcross, Conrad.
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Artists -- Great Britain.
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Sculptors -- Great Britain.
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Sculpture, Abstract -- Great Britain.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1046511 Kanopy |
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