In one intense week of camping out with science teams in the Taylor and Garwood Dry Valleys, Dadson recorded over ten hours of unique video and sound, and produced the Rock Records, a series of some sixty drawings.

In one intense week of camping out with science teams in the Taylor and Garwood Dry Valleys, Dadson recorded over ten hours of unique video and sound, and produced the Rock Records, a series of some sixty drawings. In Polar Projects, Dadson offers his vision of a place that looks and sounds like no other on earth - a place so remote, so staggering in its scale, and so changeable in its forms that it defies conventional description.

Philip Dadson: Polar Projects Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 8 August - 19 September 2004

Antarctica's wide white landscape is revealed as an extraordinary soundscape in this project by Philip Dadson. Winner of a recent New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award for his work as a sound artist, Dadson is presenting for the first time the results of his 2003 trip to Antarctica. In Polar Projects, Dadson offers his vision of a place that looks and sounds like no other on earth - a place so remote, so staggering in its scale, and so changeable in its forms that it defies conventional description.

In Dadson's work - video, sound, performance, installation - audiences are alerted to extraordinary qualities of sound in found and familiar materials, and, equally, in his not so familiar invented musical instruments. In this Antarctic region of comparative silence, sound and the influence of active polarities continue to direct the way he sees and experiences. Polar Projects reflect a uniquely sonic vision.

Produced with generous support from Antarctica NZ, Creative New Zealand and Sony (NZ)