📍Location: Cromer ARTSPACE
❤️Favourite Artwork: Happisburgh Beach (from above)
🏷Favourite Frame Stat: 519 Pints Drunk
💡Tattoo Inspiration: Crumbling Sandcastles
📜What I learnt:
- ScanLAB are a pioneering creative agency, bringing together architecture, art and data collection.
- FRAMERATE is a serious of timelapses, made from thousands of daily 3D scans, to illustrate change that cannot be captured by regular cameras.
- It has been exhibited at: COP26; SXSW; Venice Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Centre PHI in Montreal; Taiwan Creative Content Festival; Elektron in Luxembourg, and Tribeca Festival at Mercer Labs in New York City.
- ScanLAB worked with the Council and local photographers when capturing the Norfolk heritage sights Happisburgh Beach, Felbrigg and Sidestrand Beach - it felt all the more impact to experience the exhibition in its natural Norfolk habitat.
- Although displayed here as an artwork, the process collected a lot of environmental data for scientific exploration.
Away in Cromer on a solo minibreak to get away from the bustle of life, returning to this place I hold dear for many happy childhood memories, I came across Cromer ARTSPACE on a ‘things to do page’ and pre-booked my ticket to FRAMERATE, with no idea what to expect. After a nice sunny morning, tired from the sea air, the grey clouds descended and drizzle ensued. Could I be bothered to trek back outside now? The ticket was free after all, so no money wasted. Nonsense, come on, get going. I battled the strong breeze along the promenade to the gallery. If not for a sandwich board outside you’d think it was closed, its many windows covered, shutters pulled down.
I stepped inside to a calm darkness. Meditative music and a kind-faced woman greeted me. I was talked through what to expect and then left to soak in the scenes. FRAMERATE is truly mesmerising. Once you start watching it's hard to tear yourself away. In mere seconds you bare witness to plants blooming, the seasons changing in a wood, a quarry loading truck after truck, the bustle of London commuters, skyscrapers growing, pub-goers drinking, the daily routine of a herd of cows, an-ever expanding sandcastle being washed away by the waves- no fort too strong for the mighty tide.
The most moving section is that of Happisburgh Beach. By bringing the daily frames together from a span of over 250 days you look on as the cliffs receded into the sea. Across all of the scenes, my favourite viewpoint was to stand over the screen placed flat on the floor displaying an aerial view; but with Happisburgh, to look down from above, to see the land break down and feel like the ground beneath your feet might crumble into nothing was a very powerful experience.
Stats shared from the project:
- 3 flat tyres
- 4528mm rain
- 2667 spadefuls
- 3 mammoth teeth
- 817 dogs walked
- 519 high tides
- 297 year old oak
- 174,000 commuters
- 184 billion points
- 8 pumpkins
- 16 blasts days
- 36,007 m3 collapsed
- 15788 m3 concrete
- 2 bin changes
- 8459 lorry loads
- 268 cows milked
- 2 named storms
- 519 pints drunk
- 87100 m3 extracted
- 8 storeys
- 2657 blooms
- 12 homo antecessor footsteps
- 124 sandcastles
- 1 aquifer breach
