Exhibition
Groundwork | Semiconductor
05 May 2018 – 03 Jun 2018
Goonhilly Earth Station
Helston, United Kingdom
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Simon Starling, 'Black Drop' (2012), film still
Exhibition
Groundwork | Simon Starling
5 May 2018 – 3 Jun 2018
Event times
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Cost of entry
Free admission
Address
- Old Battery Store, Goonhilly Earth Station
- Goonhilly Downs
- Helston
England - TR12 6LQ
- United Kingdom
Event map
As part of the Groundwork programme, artist Simon Starling presents his film projection, 'Black Drop' (2012), that tells the story of the relationship between astronomy, photography and the beginnings of moving image technology.
About
This summer, CAST (Cornubian Arts & Science Trust), based in Helston, launches Groundwork, a season of international contemporary art exhibitions and events in unusual locations around West Cornwall
Simon Starling’s Black Drop (2012) is a single screen film projection that tells the story of the relationship between astronomy, photography and the beginnings of moving image technology. The film unfolds in a 35mm editing suite as an editor tries to bring structure and understanding to a varied array of material: footage made on location in Hawaii and Tahiti on the occasion of the June 2012 transit of Venus, archive material, and footage of the editing suite itself.
Black Drop will be presented in the Old Battery Store at Goonhilly Earth Station, with artist duo Semiconductor’s new commission As The World Turns.
Black Drop was produced in association with Modern Art, Oxford and the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford and is presented in Cornwall courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute.
