Stonehenge 2007 - Janet Hodgson
On the Stonehenge excavations Hodgson made several film pieces that reordered the sequences assembled by archaeologists. Hole Pour was a looped piece in which an excavated feature mysteriously filled and emptied itself. Time Nap reworked film of an archaeologist’s hands as they refitted pieces of struck flint. Hodgson also began a project which studied the social life of the archaeological team, turning archaeological tools onto archaeologists themselves. Uber Arch is a piece made using laser scan technology on the bodies of the Stonehenge site team. She also mapped and “excavated” the stratigraphy of social interactions in the trenches, producing personal Harris matrices (the charts commonly used to analyse site stratigraphy) for members of the team. This “excavation of an excavation” is a kind of drawing that plays with the technical mapping and plotting skills of archaeologists.