Here's an overview of the original idea for Human Tide, how it came about, what inspired it and what we're doing.

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Human Tide
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“The creative act is not performed
by the artist alone; the spectator
brings the work in contact with the
external world by deciphering and
interpreting its inner qualifications
and thus adds his contribution to
the creative act.”
Marcel Duchamp
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In 1913 Marcel Duchamp chaperoned his sister during her
time in Herne Bay, Kent.
While he was there, he created what is arguably his most
famous piece of work, 3 Standard Stoppages. He credited it
with providing the key to all his subsequent work.
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In 1964 Duchamp explained: 'This experiment was made in 1913 to
imprison and preserve forms obtained through chance, through my
chance. At the same time, the unit of length, one meter, was changed
from a straight line to a curved line without actually losing its identity
[as] the meter, and yet casting a pataphysical doubt on the concept of a
straight edge as being the shortest route from one point to
another.' (Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, eds., Marcel
Duchamp, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, pp.
273-4.) Duchamp used each wooden template three times in mapping
the diagrammatic painting Network of Stoppages, 1914
Marcel Duchamp
3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages) 1913-14
3 Standard Stoppages
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To commemorate the centenary of his time in Herne Bay a
festival is being held in August 2013.
Its called ‘I am not dead’ after a postcard he wrote to friend in
Paris that read ‘I am not dead. I am in Herne Bay’
I was asked if I would like to contribute to the festivities and I
submitted the idea ‘Human Tide’ which is based on
Duchamp’s idea that art is whatever you want it to be; it
doesn’t have to conform to any conventions or rules and
exists where the artist and the audience meet.
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We will be walking from Pier to pier along the beach with
powerful lights where the water meets the beach as the tide
comes in.
We will do the walk 3 times over the course of the turning
tide. Creating a new version of 3 Standard Stoppages.
Each walk will be shot with a special camera set up that will
allow us to ‘draw’ in light on film, effectively capturing where
the tide edge was when we walked along it.
Its never been done before.
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Participation and creation
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Draft Connections Maps & Plans 9
Human Tide / 3 Standard
Stoppages
Using the random line of the tide’s
edge to recreate the ‘chance’ captured
in the original work, we will mark
where the sea meets the beach with a
long line of light, captured at precise
intervals.
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Test shots on location
3meter light stick was
built to create this image.
We walked 500 meters
along the edge of the tide.
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We are making a film of that will capture the walk. It
will be 2-3 minutes long and will tell the story of the
Human Tide.
I want to combine the beauty revealed in long
exposure photography with a stunning, cinematic
time-lapse film.
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Background and inspiration
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Andreas Gursky
Master photographer of the epic and
mundane.
Makes even the dullest landscapes
sculptural and involving.
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Christo
Interrupts and redefines landscapes
with unexpected interventions
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Text
Daniel Leibskind
Every line and every angle has a
devine reason for being. Its all part
of a basic idea / insight delivered
through mathematics and precision
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Text
Julius Popp
Digital artist who visualises the
unseen of digital data through
machines to make it tangible and
real.
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Walking Man
A British artist walks and sometimes
people join him. He leaves no trace
of his walks and doesn’t attempt to
record them, leaving that to people
who observe.
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