DYE 2, a collaboration between fine-art photographer Murray Fredericks and sound artist Tom Schutzinger, will soon be on show at Sydney’s Australian Centre for Photography.
Fine-art photographer Murray Fredericks and sound artist Tom Schutzinger are collaborating in DYE 2, a video and sound piece made in an abandoned Cold War radar station, known as DYE 2, in Greenland. The piece, like Greenland itself, is at once icily cold and seductively beautiful. The exhibition begins on August 29 and runs through to October 18.
The dome of the abandoned facility becomes the receptacle that takes viewers to "the edge of the world, space and time".
In March 2010 Fredericks undertook a journey to Greenland, which he had visited six times in three years. From east to west, crossing the Greenland ice cap by dogsled, often in precarious conditions, the project evolved beyond the representation of landscapes to an abstraction of our relationship to time and space. "...the installation alludes to a transitional space where history has dissolved in an unbounded void," say the organisers.
The Australian Centre for Photography is at 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW. It is open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 5pm, and on Sunday from noon to 5pm. It’s closed on Mondays and public holidays. Admission to the Centre is free.
More info: www.acp.org.au
Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still. Courtesy and © the artists.
Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still. Courtesy and © the artists.