Transit in a green landscape

by Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn, 2012, 7'11"

video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
photo: Jaap Jasperse, www.sppc.co.nz

   video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
photo: Eve Manning.

Participants:
Lisa Garrod, Althea Lambert, Cheryl Gray, Jordan Stayt, Jill Poulston, Kerry T Esq, Chandra Garrod-Harvey, Annie Van Herck, Woodzy, David Pawson, Marion Pawson, Gary Tanswell, Mary Dhenas, Wayne Morris, Sen McGlinn, Kathy Brown, Celia B, Penny King, Helen Dorothy, Keren Pease, Geoff Ellet, Judith McNeil, Matthew King, Diana Balham, Marion Lapwood, Debbie Hall-Farrise + others.

photography: Ken Gernhoefer, Eve Manning, Geoff Le Blanc, Jaap Jasperse, Sonja van Kerkhoff

   video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
Still from the video.

"Transit in a green landscape," is both a happening and a video about time and scale in the land as well as a weaving of genres: red moves through a field of green, nature is foregrounded and distilled. The setting is a New Zealand sheep farm - nature is also farmed. The forested areas, the paddocks, the sheep and fences, and then the individuals who create the 'transit,' are tiny against the hills.

The participants could be read as performing in a ritual, acting, or as a collective of individuals. The role of these individuals is intentionally ambiguous, while the music by Mark Laurent hints subtly and skillfully at form. The silences and pace make room for the 'ghosts' of time and scale.

Location: Kerry Turner's Farm, Tahora, Taranaki, Aotearoa | New Zealand
Wardrobe: 32nd Tahora Folk Festival + Papatuanuku.
Music: "This Is Not All There Is" by Mark Laurent.

An intervention at the Tahora Folk Festival. A transition of red across green incorporating five "Kaimanawa" horses.

View the 7 minute, 11 second, low quality video on Youtube
or a higher quality video on Vimeo.


video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
photo: Jaap Jasperse

Shown

2012    Into the line of time SPLORE summer festival, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

2012Iets over Eight Openmakers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2013Film + Kunst (Film + Art) Galerie de Pieter, Leiden, The Netherlands.



video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
photo: Geoff Le Blanc

video/happening by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff
Still from the video

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