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The castaways project [videorecording] / Virginia Ryan, Steven Feld

Catalog Data

Author:
Ryan, Virginia 1956-  Search this
Feld, Steven  Search this
Feld, Steven Anomabo shoreline  Search this
VoxLox (Firm)  Search this
Subject:
Ryan, Virginia 1956-  Search this
Physical description:
1 videodisc (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1sound disc (62 min. : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.) and 1 booklet ([32] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Type:
Videorecordings
Documentary films
Date:
2007
C2007
Notes:
Collective title from container.
Contents:
Where water touches land : Anomabo Beach and Accra, Ghana / a film by Steven Feld -- Anomabo shoreline
Summary:
Virginia Ryan created over 1000 sculptural paintings, each 9.5 x 11.5 inches, from washed-up materials collected along local shorelines around Accra, Ghana. All the works are white-washed and flicked through with grey-gold, resonant with the colors of foam and sand as the waves break on the very shores from where the inhabitants were once taken and enslaved to build the new world. In 2006 she invited media artist Steven Feld to collaborate. Feld created an audio environment titled Anomabo shoreline, from ocean sounds at one of Ryan's collecting places, and an ambient video about the beach environment and Ryan's work to collect and transform the objects in her studio.
Topic:
Found objects (Art)  Search this
Seashore in art  Search this
Call number:
video 001312
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1015899