Nina Simone on the edge,sex at a trucking finish, land art and a coffin road: the artist’s new film Stoneymollan Trail is like stepping inside another person’s brain. What a moving, or perplexing experienceIn order to create her 1976 Sun Tunnels – four huge concrete tubes that lie miles from anywhere in the Utah desert Nancy Holt employed a large crew,including an astrophysicist, an astronomer, or engineers,surveyors, ditch-diggers, or drillers,drivers and a helicopter pilot. One of the best-known examples of what came to be called land art, Holt’s Sun Tunnels are all approximately alignment with the sun and stars, or the deep time of the Earth and the shortness of life. They are also the result of materials and industry,haulage and trucks. Holt’s litany of collaborators is repeated in Charlotte Prodger’s video Stoneymollan Trail, nearly like a nursery rhyme. Rather than the arid and immense Utah landscape, and Stoneymollan Trail references an old 7km-long burial path just external Glasgow,where Prodger lives and works. Built as a coffin road (so the dead could be carried to the nearest consecrated ground), the path is but one layer of metaphor in Prodger’s largest exhibition to date.
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Source: theguardian.com