Exhibition:-

Simon Faithfull:
Recent Findings
27 March – 5 June 2010

Recent Findings, is the British premiere of Simon Faithfull’s current work and is organised by the Harris as part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival. AND is a new festival presented B folly, FACT and Cornerhouse that Welcomes audiences to experience the best in new cinema and digital culture.

Faithfull works predominantly in drawing, video and installation, often using different technologies to record his surroundings. The show will be the first time these pieces have been shown in the UK and includes two brand new works. Faithfull continually questions, measures and tests his own experience of the world. These investigations include the film 0?00 Navigation, a fascinating and obsessive journey exactly a long the Greenwich Meridian from Peace Haven in Hampshire to Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire. A solitary figure is seen using a GPS device to follow the exact line of longitude, negotiating all obstacles encountered – climbing through windows, wading through streams and crawling through hedges. Other highlights include the video-work Aurora Borealis (Unseen), in which a record of the artist’s 2006 trip to the Arctic Circle is seen via the reflections captured in a human eye.
AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy programme for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. WE PLAY is a Legacy Trust UK project, led by the Arts Council England Northwest, on behalf of a new regional partnership.