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Aerial Farm is part of Auckland artist Phil Dadson’s Polar Projects, a series of sound and video installations that capture through aural and visual imagery a sense of what it is like to exist in the Antarctic.

Dadson, a sound, video and performance artist, camped for a week in the Dry Valleys, recording the visual and audio elements of the landscape as part of his 2003 Artist Fellowship in Antarctica. Dadson wrote his diary: 'Mostly the valley seems silent, with only a background hiss of pink noise to accompany the intrusive sounds of my body, my footsteps. No bird or animal noises, only occasional ice snaps and explosive retorts from the splintering glacial-face and the lakes of frozen seepage from the melt.'

Aerial Farm is an image of communications apparatus, the wing blowing through the multiple wires, creates a mesmerising, almost meditative sonic sound, while the image portrays the harshness of the environment juxtaposed with the efforts to which human beings go to keep in touch.