In early Spring 2012, Martyn Blundell and Mark Goodwin entered the disused quarter of Charnwood Quarry, near Loughborough. From the quarry rim they worked their way down … passed beneath the M1 Motorway … then entered abandoned workshops and offices …
… Entropy @ Charnwood Quarry, early Spring 2012 is a film-poem made from that ‘journey’ …
Film duration: approx 9 minutes
Film production: Martyn Blundell
Poetry, vocals and audio production: Mark Goodwin
Biographies
Martyn Blundell is a video artist who has, since 1995, exhibited his work widely, both in the UK and internationally. In his current video work, Martyn is interested in: ‘prompting reflection on the relationship between then and now, presence and absence; and looking for the emotional traces left behind from our everyday encounters with our environment and our species.’
http://martynblundell.blogspot.co.uk/
Mark Goodwin has published three full-length poetry collections, and three chapbooks. Much of his work is about ‘landscape’. Mark has a particular interest in ‘rurban’ rim-lands and the dilapidated. He has exhibited and often collaborated with Sheffield’s Longbarrow Press, through audio-recording poetry outdoors. The following is from Mark’s chapbook, Layers of Un, published by Shearsman Books:
a partly eradicated
stairwell to
a plain of waste
land droning
with a fizz
of worlds’
dissolving
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/goodwinA.html
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