Remote Areas of Force, Beard and Ferguson 2009. Watch an excerpt from the video here.

Remote Areas of Force is a visual arts project by artist duo Richard Beard and Nick Ferguson. It takes as its starting point Untitled, 1985, an object in painted aluminium by the late American artist Donald Judd. Judd’s work was reconstructed from a catalogue image using plywood,  carried up Mount Snowdon, Wales from and dropped from a precipice. The scattered remains were photographed the following day. The title of the work borrows a phrase from Robert Smithson’s essay Donald Judd in which Smithson compares Judd’s constructions to geological forms and asserts in them the primacy of matter over space or motion. The gathered remains of the reconstruction, along side the photographs and video documentation of the event were exhibited within various group shows in London including APT Gallery, Creekside and Goldsmiths, University of London.