Excavating scores

Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | Durlston scores (work in progress) | 2021  

Here is a set of scores quarried from the Durlston Country Park online Daily Diary between Monday 4 January and  Friday 8 January 2021, with an additional compilation from Monday 11 January 

Every day (apart from Christmas Day) the Durlston rangers record their early-morning observations from the site and post them online. Text from these posts has been systematically excavated and reassembled by myself and Megan Calver to create a series of scores for action. 

Durlston is a 320-acre park and nature reserve on the outskirts of Swanage, Dorset. It includes the remains of two quarries: one for Purbeck Stone and the other Portland Limestone.

Every day for five days we created an instruction from the Daily Diary entry and then each enacted it in our own homes, working under the restrictions of lockdown and improvising with what was to hand. 

A selection of the outcomes were documented on Instagram: rapid ‘sketches’ made with a view to creating more ambitious future works with and for the site. 

https://www.durlston.co.uk

blue visible

Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | blue visible (work in progress) | 2021

'blue visible'

Monday 4 January - Friday 8 January 2021

A series of actions and small works created with Megan Calver in response to the Daily Diary for Durlston Country Park.

Durlston is a 320-acre park and nature reserve on the outskirts of Swanage, Dorset.

Every day (apart from Christmas Day) the Durlston rangers record their early-morning observations from the site and post them online. Text from these posts has been systematically excavated and reassembled by us to create a series of scores (instructions) for action.

Every day for five days we created an instruction from the Daily Diary entry and then each enacted it in our own homes, working under the restrictions of lockdown and improvising with what was to hand.

A selection of the outcomes were documented on Instagram: rapid ‘sketches’ made with a view to creating more ambitious future works with and for the site.

Quarrying at Durlston

skitter Peregrine a shelter | Monday 4 January 2021 

Work in progress with Megan Calver. One of a series of scores (instructions) for action, quarried from the Durlston Country Park online Daily Diary, in which rangers record their observations from the site.

Durlston is a 320-acre park and nature reserve on the outskirts of Swanage, Dorset. It includes the remains of two quarries: one for Purbeck Stone and the other Portland Limestone.

Both Megan and I know the site well as we share family connections with Swanage. We had worked together as artists for some time before we discovered this coincidence. This year, instead of visiting our relatives, we are connecting with the site remotely via the Daily Diary and using it as a source of new collaborative work.
https://www.durlston.co.uk