LONDONFIELDWORKS

London Fieldworks was initiated by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson as they set out to fuse experiences of the real and re-presented, combining presence, memory and artifice. Their Syzygy and Polaria projects are poetic investigations into human consciousness and physiology in relation to the external phenomena of weather and light. Syzygy took place on the remote and uninhabited Scottish island of Sanda in summer 1999. A team of artists, writers, musicians, kite flyers and a computer programmer spent a week on the island, taking with them a range of computer, communication, atmospheric diagnostic and biofeedback technologies in an attempt to corner their notoriously elusive quarries-consciousness and weather. For their latest project Polaria , Gilchrist and Joelson travelled to North East Greenland in August 2001 to conduct fieldwork on Arctic light and human physiology.

Endorsements:

"A staggeringly ambitious, multi-disciplinary art project - or rather dedicated campaign - yoking together atmospheric and weather patterns, brain waves, stunt kites, a remote Scottish island and a major London gallery; named after a remote astronomical phenomena when planets align in space."
The Guardian

"SYZYGY has not only offered up a unique model for creative research and collaboration, it has also set the pace and ambition for imaginatively sited new-technology arts projects."
The Glasgow Herald

"London Fieldworks put us in their debt by opening a fresh paradigm for avant garde art activity today."
Stewart Home

"With so much art today obsessed with the detritus of urban life - rubbing it in as it were - it is good to see artists going out and taking risks in exploring the further reaches of nature. Consciousness and our desire to understand has become a central proccupation of our time. Their determined long term engagement should surely be applauded."
Gustav Metzger