NMC is a space for art installations, with the current 'exhibition' by AM Radio.
When you arrive the first thing that strikes you is the quiet - the eerie sound of the wind flowing across this seemingly barren, desert. There is a distinct feeling of loneliness, amidst this seemingly endless landscape, dotted with the odd structure here and there, like some surrealist landscape.
The first piece you see is a boat, sitting in the sand tethered to a table with old wireless, floating compasses, book and papers. The small boat is filled with a myriad floating, rotating hammers and neatly stacked planks of wood, as though waiting to be put together. As you walk up to the boat and table a haunting piece of music plays interspersed with the sounds of radio frequencies being tuned. Leading on from the table are an array of empty chairs. You get the feeling there were once people there, of echoes of life, but all is empty now.
Further on lies a dead twisted tree next to an old fashioned sewing machine, a piece of blue fabric held under the needle, ends fluttering in the breeze, a pile of of twigs on the side bound by strands of the material.
The blue material is featured again in an adjacent abstract piece -what it's meaning is is for you to decide. It is the only moving thing in the installation, the only thing of colour against all the browns, fluttering in the wind in contrast to the stillness of the other structures.
The last structure here is an old airplane, empty, motionless, as though waiting to be brought to life.
The whole place strangely has a feeling of expectation about it - as though just abandoned, but waiting for a return. If you like thought provoking art and creations, have your sounds and music enabled, visit this place and spend a little while. It's not the kind place you'll get anything out of by rushing the experience, and do take the time to look at all the object - some are interactive. If you do and get the landmark to Dreamwold North, take it - it offers another great landscape with echoes of the first, again a feeling of vast landscape, melancholy. The third place I visited by AM Radio is called 'The Quiet' (landmark can be found at Dreamwold). Again, slightly dreamlike in the mood, with a sense of loneliness and stillness, set amongst a stark white snow laden landscape.
The blue material is featured again in an adjacent abstract piece -what it's meaning is is for you to decide. It is the only moving thing in the installation, the only thing of colour against all the browns, fluttering in the wind in contrast to the stillness of the other structures.
The last structure here is an old airplane, empty, motionless, as though waiting to be brought to life.
The whole place strangely has a feeling of expectation about it - as though just abandoned, but waiting for a return. If you like thought provoking art and creations, have your sounds and music enabled, visit this place and spend a little while. It's not the kind place you'll get anything out of by rushing the experience, and do take the time to look at all the object - some are interactive. If you do and get the landmark to Dreamwold North, take it - it offers another great landscape with echoes of the first, again a feeling of vast landscape, melancholy. The third place I visited by AM Radio is called 'The Quiet' (landmark can be found at Dreamwold). Again, slightly dreamlike in the mood, with a sense of loneliness and stillness, set amongst a stark white snow laden landscape.
All in all, a wonderful experience. You won't be disappointed.
(For a teleport to this installation, click the post title).
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