{"id":2255,"date":"2023-07-28T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eleanorbowen.co.uk\/art\/?page_id=2255"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:01:48","slug":"borderland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eleanorbowen.co.uk\/art\/borderland","title":{"rendered":"Borderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2255\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2255-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2255-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2255-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"animate-6a268d63afb75438157006 panels-animation-hide panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2255-0-0-0\" data-so-animation=\"{&quot;selector&quot;:&quot;.animate-6a268d63afb75438157006&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;breakpoint&quot;:&quot;780px&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1,&quot;repeat&quot;:0,&quot;hide&quot;:1,&quot;disableAnimationMobile&quot;:0,&quot;finalState&quot;:&quot;visible&quot;,&quot;delay&quot;:0,&quot;debounce&quot;:0.1,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;enter&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:0}\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"eleanor-h3\">Borderland<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><em>Borderland<\/em> was an installation in the group exhibition \u2018Can We Ever Know the Meaning of These Objects?\u2019 at Gallery 46, Whitechapel in July 2021, which was developed from a small exhibition at the Wessex Gallery, Salisbury Museum of Archaeology (2019-20).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-2255-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"animate-6a268d63afe29941414857 panels-animation-hide panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2255-0-0-1\" data-so-animation=\"{&quot;selector&quot;:&quot;.animate-6a268d63afe29941414857&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;breakpoint&quot;:&quot;780px&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1,&quot;repeat&quot;:0,&quot;hide&quot;:1,&quot;disableAnimationMobile&quot;:0,&quot;finalState&quot;:&quot;visible&quot;,&quot;delay&quot;:0,&quot;debounce&quot;:0.1,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;enter&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:0}\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Borderland<\/em> comprised<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a selection of items representing aspects of my father\u2019s life and work as a field archaeologist from the last \u2018analogue\u2019 generation, incorporating reframed finds from the archive of images, texts and objects he left, traces of professional practice and personal lifetime material;<\/li>\n<li>an immersive soundscape (2018\/19) of edited recordings taken from Martin Down and Bokerley Dyke, an earthwork that was the subject of his archaeological research;<\/li>\n<li>a short slide film (informal fieldwork images \/soundscape), 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-2255-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"animate-6a268d63aff1c474870850 panels-animation-hide panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2255-0-0-2\" data-so-animation=\"{&quot;selector&quot;:&quot;.animate-6a268d63aff1c474870850&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;breakpoint&quot;:&quot;780px&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1,&quot;repeat&quot;:0,&quot;hide&quot;:1,&quot;disableAnimationMobile&quot;:0,&quot;finalState&quot;:&quot;visible&quot;,&quot;delay&quot;:0,&quot;debounce&quot;:0.1,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;enter&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:0}\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>Extract from \u2018Substratum\u2019, published in <em>Performance Research<\/em> 20:3 (2015) \u2018On Ruins\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>When my father became an archaeologist it was because (he said) of his father\u2019s obsession with <span style=\"font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">races of the past. Photos show his father beside historic buildings and in prehistoric landscapes. At times he put us children in for scale. In extreme old age my father became paralysed by Parkinson\u2019s disease. He lay directly over the cellar workshop and office into which he had descended for fifty years, and where as a result an archive accumulated. Strewn below his immobile body, a substratum of traces - maps, books, drawings, slides, notes, Dictaphone recordings, collapsed into a disorder that would have saddened but not surprised him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bowen (2015) \u2018Substratum\u2019, <em>Performance Research<\/em> 20:3 \u2018On Ruins and Ruination\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The line art drawing included here, \u2018End of Time Finds\u2019, from <em>End of Time Finds (Ghost Phase)<\/em>, was taken at 5.36 on Sunday 10 June 2018, a period during which I itemised as much as possible of my dad\u2019s archive before the house was sold. Reading the past (excavation, itemisation etc) involves a process that replicates and folds into its object. Thus excavator and archivist leave traces of their own, and new objects are made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eleanorbowen.co.uk\/art\/artworks\/photographic-and-installations\/borderland-video\">Borderland (Video &amp; Soundscape)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borderland was an installation in the group exhibition \u2018Can We Ever Know the Meaning of These Objects?\u2019 at Gallery 46, Whitechapel in July 2021, which was developed from a small exhibition at the Wessex Gallery, Salisbury Museum of Archaeology (2019-20). 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