Remote Viewers
Exhibition by Gair Dunlop and Associate Professor Matthew Flintham at the Department of Design(KMD) in collaboration with Bervie Brow Research Station and Gallery Kronborg.
Remote Viewers
Remote Viewers is a project that will bring together two remote sites separated by 600km of ocean. Gallery Kronborg, situated on the top of Rundemanen mountain (Bergen, Norway), will host a collaboration with Bervie Brow Research Station (nr Aberdeen, Scotland) - a remote Cold-War era defence bunker which now operates as a cultural research centre. Artists Gair Dunlop and Matthew Flintham will show new photographic and sculptural works that establish a connection between these two remote sites which are united by precarious histories of conflict and extreme environmental challenges.
The opening event will also host a live video connection with Bervie Brow Research Station in Scotland where a simultaneous event will be taking place. If all goes well, a dialogue between remote artists and spaces will be established.
Both sites will enter a simultaneous spatial dialogue, offering each other images of their interior spaces: the interior of Kronborg will be clad with large scales images of Bervie Brow, replicating the Cold War subterranean bunker beneath it. Bervie Brow, in turn, will host an exhibition of photographs of Kronborg and its surrounding vibrant landscape.
This connection will be consolidated by a permanent sculpture at Bervie Brow - a toposcope (a metal directional orientation display) which describes significant cultural and social sites within a global radius.
Accompany this exchange of spaces and information, will be a process of mapping the technological and architectural landscape surround both sites: the Cold War infrastructure around Bervie Brow will be compared and aligned with the military and radio transmission sites around Kronborg and the Rundemanen landscape. Gallery Kronborg itself will be mapped with lidar and photogrammetry to build a three dimensional graphic model of the site.
Both sites will also host simultaneous mapping events where artists and citizen explorers will investigate the rich heritage that surrounds these remote spaces.
The events will be coordinated by Matthew Flintham (artist and Associate Professor, KMD, Bergen), Gair Dunlop (artist, researcher and senior lecturer in Contemporary Art, Dundee University) and Harry Willis Fleming (Owner and curator, Bervie Brow Research Station).