Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight
The following is documentation of a mock-up installation for a piece called: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight. The loop is excerpted from the film: Coal: A Bridge to the Future
Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight (Installation) from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
SFO 2010 Production Photos
The following links connect to production photos from the 2010 Santa Fe Opera season.
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Madam Butterfly - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/sets/72157624444375293/
Tales of Hoffman - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/sets/72157624569317100/
Life is a Deam - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/sets/72157624444476285/
Albert Herring - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/sets/72157625520270875/
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Slideshows:
Underground Cinema (á la Smithson)
Underground Cinema at Robinson's Cave.
The following clip was projected onto the interior of Robinson's Cave in New Straitsville, OH.
Microwaves from Space! from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
The Gavin Power Plant
These images were taken on a recent tour of the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire Ohio with Matthew Friday's art and ecology class.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power. Named after James M. Gavin, it is the largest coal fired power facility in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation. Its two units, rated at 1300 MWe each, were launched into service in 1974 and 1975.[1]
The plant is located at 
38°56′09″N 82°07′00″W
, just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) upstream along the Ohio River from a smaller, older coal-fired Kyger Creek Power Plant.
References
- ^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-14
Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Without a Fight
This is a looped video segment from Exxon's Coal: A Bridge to the Future promotional video. The dialog repeated in the piece is as follows:
"Nature never gives up anything without a fight. It's a continuous fight and a challenge for a person to operate a piece of equipment and to take from nature things that she has put there for you to use."
This sentiment echoes the sense of self-entitlement that is commonly described by extractive industries. The confidence that resources were placed on the earth for "us" to use neglects and in most cases supersedes the notion that it may not be wise to extract the resources in the first place.
In installation this piece is projected as a 16mm film loop onto a large piece of coal. The projection bleeds around the coal leaving an outline of the film on the wall with a coal shaped void in the center.
Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
Power Equals Work Over Time: Test Exhibition
Utilizing my “archival impulse”[1] I am continually and collaboratively developing a non-hierarchical archive of the region and its network of influences. The archive serves as a point of access for the viewer and a point of departure for artistic productions that, when completed, are folded back into the archive from which they were inspired. Many of these artistic productions take the form of annotated photographic prints of scanned sites, video documentation of exploration through visual prosthetics, and augmentation of existing archival materials but the reincorporation of these into the archive inspires new combinations and paths of research. This cyclical methodology of research and production facilitates an archive that is continually re-informed and reflexive. is the presentation of a cross section of this archive.
[1] Foster, H. (2004). “An Archival Impulse”. October110, 3-22. Foster describes the archival impulse as a “notion of artistic practice as an idiosyncratic probing into particular figures, objects, and events in modern art, philosophy, and history.”
A Bridge to the Future
A Bridge to the Future is a video loop made from a coal promotional video by the Exxon Cooperation in 1980 called Coal: A Bridge to the Future. This piece is a part of a larger sketch/mock-up exhibition that is currently installed at The Ridges. Photos of that installation are forthcoming.
A Bridge to the Future from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
Preliminary Coal Ball Scan
The above is a test embedded image using www.seadragon.com
Click on the Image to zoom and drag to pan.
link to full resolution image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/4400942531/sizes/o/
A scan of three acetate / acetone peels that the paleo-botany department does on coal balls. Coal balls are the not quite coal cast off when coal mining on the fringes of a seam. This is a preliminary test scan for a future body of work inspired by: Thom Atkinson’s photographs of rock samples from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition of 1908.
Big Muskie: King of the Giants
I just received a scanned copy of an article about Big Muskie!
citation:
Coal Age, 1969, Big Muskie; King of the Giants: v. 74, no. 12, p. 50-60
from:
Anne M. Huber, M.L.S.
Library and Public Information
Office of the Director
ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Phone: 217-333-5110
E-mail: huber@isgs.illinois.edu
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