Hacking Antarctica ...

• Main Author: Perez, Alejandra
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Westminster 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Strauss; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.34737/qyy62; https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/qyy62/hacking-antarctica

Hacking Antarctica is an investigation focused on rendering aesthetic responses to Antarctica beyond normative representations of the sublime and the imperceptible. It is based on fieldwork in polar and subpolar areas over the last 9 years. At its core, the research uses Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement as a way of understanding what is meant by the sublime and from that develops a practice that examines what a Kantian lack of access to nature implies. This key Kantian concept is explained and devised into art works and then tested through concepts such as translation, transduction, infection and representation, using hacking methodologies informed by bricolage (L ´ evi-Strauss 1968), and diffraction (Barad 2007). The research expands on the taxonomies of the polar to reconsider the Antarctic as a border and periphery, bringing a conjunction of hacking methods and site-specific art that enables a performative causality with which to study the production of site. In other words, a performative approach ...