Synopses & Reviews
Archeology encompasses Mark Dion's most recent work, largely comprising the 'digs' he has been concerned with over the past years - History Trash Dig, History Trash Scan, Raiding Neptune's Vault and most recently, the Tate Thames Dig, Beachcombing on London's Foreshore. Texts have been abstracted from interviews between Mark Dion and the books editor, Alex Coles, as well as from the diverse lecture programming which took place at the Tate Gallery in conjunction with the Tate Thames Dig.
Synopsis
This unusual book presents the world of excavations as art and theatre. The majority of this slim volume presents images from Mark Dion's Tate Thames Dig on the Thames foreshore in 1999 accompanied by texts by archaeologists and artists, notably Colin Renfrew, Jonathan Cotton and Robert Williams, on the merit of science as art and Thames finds, among other subjects.