Graveyard
FIELDCLUB GRAVEYARD
2006 to present
FIELDCLUB GRAVEYARD houses the bodies of animals whose deaths are a direct result of the collaborators’ interaction with the land at FIELDCLUB. Voles accidently caught in the blades of a rotovator, birds drowned in water butts, and shrew babies abandoned by their mothers after being disturbed in sheds are all interred and memorialised. The graveyard is maintained and kept in good order throughout the year. Animals killed with intent, i.e. mice and rats killed in traps to protect stored crops, are segregated in a separate area within the graveyard, but nonetheless buried. Each burial is documented with digital video.
The graveyard is an archive that obliquely assess the impact and 'interconnectedness' of human endeavor at FIELDCLUB, which is home to many different animals existing within their various niches alongside the human.
FIELDCLUB GRAVEYARD in 2006:
vole no pulse
Stills from VOLE - NO PULSE
2008
12 minute Digital Video
Pregnant Field Vole, killed with lawnmower, buried in FIELDCLUB GRAVEYARD.
One for sorrow
Digital Video
Re-enactment of the last flight of a magpie found drowned in a water butt, before its burial in FIELDCLUB GRAVEYARD. From a series of short video films, documenting incidences of bird trauma at FIELDCLUB.
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