What is Human Tide?

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Human Tide

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“The creative act is not performedby the artist alone; the spectatorbrings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”

Marcel Duchamp

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In 1913 Marcel Duchamp chaperoned his sister during her time in Herne Bay, Kent.

While he was there, he created what is arguably his most famous piece of work, 3 Standard Stoppages. He credited it

with providing the key to all his subsequent work.

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In 1964 Duchamp explained: 'This experiment was made in 1913 to imprison and preserve forms obtained through chance, through my chance. At the same time, the unit of length, one meter, was changed from a straight line to a curved line without actually losing its identity [as] the meter, and yet casting a pataphysical doubt on the concept of a straight edge as being the shortest route from one point to another.' (Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, eds., Marcel Duchamp, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, pp.273-4.) Duchamp used each wooden template three times in mapping the diagrammatic painting Network of Stoppages, 1914

Marcel Duchamp3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages) 1913-14

3 Standard Stoppages

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To commemorate the centenary of his time in Herne Bay a festival is being held in August 2013.

Its called ‘I am not dead’ after a postcard he wrote to friend in Paris that read ‘I am not dead. I am in Herne Bay’

I was asked if I would like to contribute to the festivities and I submitted the idea ‘Human Tide’ which is based on

Duchamp’s idea that art is whatever you want it to be; it doesn’t have to conform to any conventions or rules and

exists where the artist and the audience meet.

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So Human Tide is a piece of mass participation intervention that takes place along a stretch of the Kent Coast at Herne

Bay.

We will be walking from Pier to pier along the beach with powerful lights where the water meets the beach as the tide

comes in.

We will do the walk 3 times over the course of the turning tide. Creating a new version of 3 Standard Stoppages.

Each walk will be shot with a special camera set up that will allow us to ‘draw’ in light on film, effectively capturing where

the tide edge was when we walked along it.

Its never been done before.

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Participation and creation

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Draft Connections Maps & Plans 9

Human Tide / 3 Standard Stoppages

Using the random line of the tide’s edge to recreate the ‘chance’ captured

in the original work, we will mark where the sea meets the beach with a long line of light, captured at precise

intervals.

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Draft Connections Maps & Plans 10

Test shots on location

3meter light stick was built to create this image.

We walked 500 meters along the edge of the tide.

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We are making a film of that will capture the walk. It will be 2-3 minutes long and will tell the story of the

Human Tide.

I want to combine the beauty revealed in long exposure photography with a stunning, cinematic

time-lapse film.

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Background and inspiration

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Andreas Gursky

Master photographer of the epic and mundane.

Makes even the dullest landscapes sculptural and involving.

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Christo

Interrupts and redefines landscapes with unexpected interventions

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Daniel Leibskind

Every line and every angle has a devine reason for being. Its all part of a basic idea / insight delivered through mathematics and precision

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Julius Popp

Digital artist who visualises the unseen of digital data through machines to make it tangible and real.

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Walking Man

A British artist walks and sometimes people join him. He leaves no trace of his walks and doesn’t attempt to record them, leaving that to people who observe.

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