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Priest, Colin (2014) The Dance of the Neptune Plant. [Art/Design Item]
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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| Creators: | Priest, Colin |
| Description: | A new film for the Whitstable Biennale 2014 takes as its inspiration the Neptune Plant, otherwise known as White Weed, Air Fern or Sea Fir. It is specific to the Kent coast and has been harvested for centuries by fishermen near the estuary and distributed at the harbour, a temporal cottage industry of cleaning, bunching and dying for sale inland, for aquariums. Fine in structure, the plant is in fact a species of marine animal – the dried skeletal colonies of hydroids. The film, which uses as its soundtrack selections from 'All in a Garden Green' composed by romantic Kent-born John Jenkins in 1650 and performed by local cellist Matthew Roberts, presents this peculiar organism as an evanescent character, bridging animal and vegetal existence. Within the library there was also a shelf of selected books related to the research. |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts |
| Date: | 7 June 2014 |
| Funders: | CCA, UAL |
| Related Websites: | http://www.whitstablebiennale.com/project/the-dance-of-the-neptune-plant/, http://www.whitstablebiennale.com/support/thank-you/ |
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| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Whitstable Biennale 2014, Whitstable, Kent, UK 31 May 2014 15 June 2014 |
| Measurements or Duration of item: | 12 minutes |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2015 12:14 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2015 12:15 |
| Item ID: | 8422 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/8422 |
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