ABSTRACT
Remote Performances consisted of six days of live radio broadcasts from Glen Nevis by 20 invited artists who work with sound, visual art or text, along with broadcasts by people from the local community in Fort William and Lochaber. The six days of broadcasts created a portrait of this specific place, but a portrait with echoes and resonances for many places elsewhere. Miraculously Remote Performances only fell off-air for a few short bursts during the six days, occasionally affected by the vagaries of weather conditions. The technology had to work with and adapt to its surroundings. The twenty artists working with sound, visual art and text, who made work for Remote Performances, addressed the current state of Nature through creative research rather than scientific study. The artists in Remote Performances explored the terrain bringing back diverse reports: Patterson's sound compositions of organisms from mollusks to the human animal.
