Live Fire Exercise (Djibouti) 2011

As with the other works in the Exercise series, Live Fire Exercise has been developed from a single image: a photograph from what is known as a 'live fire exercise' by the US Military, or an exercise using explosives. The photograph was sourced on the US military media interface site Defence Video and Image Distribution System: www.dvidshub.net
In the work a single explosion occurs each afternoon - producing a form which is held sculpturally until burning out in twenty five minutes - the time of the original performance. 

Producer: Werner Poetzelberger
Programmers: Helmut Bressler, Matthias Strohmaier
Vehicle / Landscape Modellers: Martin Hebestreit, Ulrich Radhuber
Lead Vehicle Animator: Christoph Staber
Vehicle Animator: Patrick Zeymer
Object fabrication: Jakob Illera - Inseq

Exhibitions

Live Fire Exercise at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2015

28 April – 11 October 2015
John Gerrard 'Exercise'

A survey of the Exercise series - including Exercise (Djibouti) 2011 as object. 

2015 · LIVE FIRE EXERCISE / KUNSTHALLE DARMSTADT
2015 · LIVE FIRE EXERCISE / KUNSTHALLE DARMSTADT

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