Sunday July 28, 3-4:30 pm,
The Mine at the Snyder estate, Rosendale NY
DaDa spill experimental event will be staged within the vast half-acre interior space of an abandoned cement mine. This monumental room and pillar style mine consists of enormous sloping bedrock, 18’ wide and 30’ tall standing stone pillars and an expansive groundwater lake. This multi media installation, performance, crowd project will investigate the extraordinary local/global phenomenon of data storage and specifically the repurposing of mines for document storage. This event, presented in the spirit of Dada, will have numerous overlapping presentations, sounds and visual images resulting in a massive Dada data spill. There will be 2 scenes of a play by Elana Greenfield performed on ladders standing in the interior lake. Documents will be created, exposed, processed, discarded, stored, recovered, and eaten. The title of this event refers to the term: ‘data spill’ – a security breach – the intentional or unintentional release of secure information to an un-trusted environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach
‘Dada’ is the name of an art/literary movement that originated in reaction to the horrors of World War 1. Dada relies on intuition, nonsense and irrational thought in order to search for sense in a seemingly senseless universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm
We propose to blend the two ideas, to create a DaDa spill. DaDa spill will draw on the rich and crazy history of the mines of Rosendale that began as a geological layering of dolostone made of the compressed bones of billions of tiny sea creatures. The hay days of the Rosendale mines were from the 1830’s until 1950’s. Nineteenth century miners excavated many square miles of limestone to make cement to build cities. In the 20th century, there was a widespread move to fill the voids of former mines with high-security vaults for government and corporate data storage. During the cold war, many of these transformed mines were also developed into luxury bomb shelter housing for corporate and government leaders. The mines were also used for mushroom and trout farming before they were developed into bomb shelters and document storage.
