![]() ![]() The film Spiral Jetty, together with a series of photoworks taken during the construction of the earthwork, have become integral parts of the overall project.Īfter years of deterioration caused by natural entropic forces, Spiral Jetty was acquired by the Dia Foundation as a gift from the Smithson estate in 1999.Ĭamera: Robert Fiore, Nancy Holt, Robert Logan, Robert Smithson. Poetic and oddly hypnotic, the film includes stunning aerial footage of Smithson running along the length of the glowing spiral in what seems like an ecstatic ritual. A voiceover by Smithson illuminates the ideas and processes that informed the evolution of the work, with allusions to prehistoric relics and radical notions of space, scale and landscape. ![]() The film documents the making of this earthwork, which has attained near-mythic status as it has disappeared and then re-emerged from the lake over the past decades. At 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide, Smithson's spiral of basalt rocks, mud, and salt crystals juts out from the shore and coils dramatically into luminous red water. Completed in April 1970, Spiral Jetty is an iconic earthwork and Smithson's most renowned piece. The film Spiral Jetty is a "portrait" of Smithson's monumental earthwork of the same name at Rozel Point in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Collaborating with artists, writers, thinkers, and institutions Holt/Smithson Foundation realizes exhibitions, publishes books, initiates artist commissions, programs educational events, encourages research, and develops collections globally from its headquarters in New Mexico.1970, 35 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video Our ambition is to become the hub of all things Holt and Smithson. Holt/Smithson Foundation was willed into being by Nancy Holt in 2014. Holt/Smithson Foundation develops their distinctive creative legacies. Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-1973) transformed the world of art and ideas, recalibrating the limits of art. In June 2023 the last dispatch from this station of the World Weather Network will be a commissioned poem responding to these ever-changing conditions. The first image dispatch will be of Spiral Jetty at dawn on June 21, 2022. In its half-century lifetime, Spiral Jetty’s visibility and relationship to the site has changed as the waters of the lake have dried.įor the World Weather Network Holt/Smithson Foundation will send dispatches from Spiral Jetty, sharing unseen film footage from its construction, as well as images of the earthwork immersed under water, of its reappearance in 2002 covered with salt crystals, and of the situation today. The current water level of the lake is at the lowest it has ever been since records began, following years of sustained drought and water diversion. Smithson’s earthwork is located at Rozel Point, on the north arm of Great Salt Lake, the eighth largest terminal lake in the world. In 2022, fifty-two years after it was created, Spiral Jetty is a barometer for the climate emergency. ![]() Constructed from 6,650 tons of rock and earth, the spiral continuously changes form as nature, industry, and time take their effect. Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture created in 1970 by renowned Land Artist, Robert Smithson. In June 2023 the last dispatch from this station of the World Weather Network will be a commissioned poem responding to these ever-changing conditions.īuilt at the mouth of a terminal basin rich in minerals and nearly devoid of life, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is a testament to Smithson’s fascination with entropy. The first image dispatch will be of Spiral Jetty at dawn on June 21, 2022. Spiral Jetty Gary Shapiro Robert Smithson designed and directed the construction of his iconic work the Spiral Jetty in April 1970. For the World Weather Network Holt/Smithson Foundation will send dispatches from Spiral Jetty, sharing unseen film footage from its construction, as well as images of the earthwork immersed under water, of its reappearance in 2002 covered with salt crystals, and of the situation today. ![]()
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