Tide

Kovats, T (2015) Tide. In: One and All: A Voyage Through Sight, Sound and Sea, Somerset House, London, UK, 4 November - 13 December 2015.

Item Type: Exhibition
Creators: Kovats, T
Abstract: Tania Kovats’ work ‘Tide’ uses real-time data to create a digital drawing tracking the tide as it moves around mainland Britain. Her 12-kilo bronze bell, cast on Porthcurno Beach in Cornwall, rang daily at high tide over the River Thames as part of the Somerset House exhibition.
Date: November 2015
Event Location: Somerset House, London, UK
Note:

Commission for the National Trust’s celebration of Project Neptune, and their custodianship of coastal landscape. In collaboration with Sound UK, the National Trust invited sound artist Martyn Ware (founder of The Human League and Heaven 17), poet Owen Sheers and visual artist Tania Kovats to take inspiration from their Neptune Coastline Campaign to acquire and care for coastal land, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015.

Divisions: Bath School of Art, Film and Media
Date Deposited: 19 Aug 2019 10:27
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2021 09:53
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