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Andrew Stones' installation is based on video and audio material recorded at CERN, the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire in France.
This vast organisation houses some of the world's largest machines that are deployed in the search for matter's smallest particles.
Using seven projection screens and multi-channel sound, 'ATLAS' depicts three zones of the CERN nuclear research complex: the underground 'Atlas' detector chamber, an underground particle accelerator (the 'Super Positron Synchrotron'), and the offices of two CERN-based physicists.
CERN's 'Atlas' detector chamber is a huge collective civil engineering project, revealed in Stones' installation as a frieze-like triptych whose images crawl continuously across three large screens. For Stones, this gargantuan concrete chamber is reminiscent of certain fabulous building projects, such as Noah's Ark or the Tower of Babel, which the scholars and artists of earlier centuries attempted to re-imagine and re-engineer.
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Chisenhale Gallery, 29-Jun-04 to 15-Aug-04
64 Chisenhale Rd
London
E3 5QZ
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