A film by Mike Leggett of an event to celebrate the first anniversary of the Angela Flowers Gallery. The performance, was produced by Ian Breakwell, in which a group of labourers in a circle shovelled earth, over the course of an ‘8-hour day’, . On the second floor of the gallery, each man continuously shovelled earth onto the adjacent man’s mound of earth; the media installation deployed by Leggett, relayed the event via CCTV to their street-level window, while at the same time and by coincidence, the Apollo astronauts were digging up rock samples on the surface of the moon. While every TV shop window showed live footage of the activities on the moon, the media installation relayed the art event through the course of the day, as the all-white gallery space was reduced to a sea of mud, The images relayed from each event became almost indistinguishable from each other. The 16mm film record was restored to digital video in 2003.

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