Antipodean media ecologies: journeys to nowhere and back
In summer 2005 the Association of Freed Times (AFT) published an article in Artforum. "El Diaro del Fin del Mundo: A Journey That Wasn't" described environmental damage to the Antarctic ice shelf and the subsequent mutations occurring within the Antartic ecosystem. One of these mutant...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:creartspapers-1359 2023-05-15T13:46:34+02:00 Antipodean media ecologies: journeys to nowhere and back Ballard, Su 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/creartspapers/351 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1359&context=creartspapers unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/creartspapers/351 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1359&context=creartspapers Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive) ecologies journeys media back antipodean nowhere Arts and Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences presentation 2008 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T10:26:21Z In summer 2005 the Association of Freed Times (AFT) published an article in Artforum. "El Diaro del Fin del Mundo: A Journey That Wasn't" described environmental damage to the Antarctic ice shelf and the subsequent mutations occurring within the Antartic ecosystem. One of these mutants is rumoured to be a solitary albino penguin living on an uncharted island near Marguerite Bay. The article documents French artist Pierre Huyghe's journey to find the island and its mysterious inhabitatnt, and forms the first part of an event that culminated in a musical on the Wollman ice rink in New York's Central Park, where "in accordance with a principle of equivalence, a symphone orchestra 'plays' the form of this island" (Leydier 2006, 33). The expedition, film, installation, narrative and performance A Journey that Wasn't documents European imaginings of elsewhere, while at the same time suspending relationships between ficition and reality. Questions remain over whether Huyghe and his team undertook the trip, and if so, what it was they found there. "Perhaps, they reasoned, desire itself might produce the island" (AFT 2005, 299). Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic antartic* Ice Shelf University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Antarctic Freed ENVELOPE(164.333,164.333,-71.483,-71.483) Marguerite ENVELOPE(141.378,141.378,-66.787,-66.787) Marguerite Bay ENVELOPE(-68.000,-68.000,-68.500,-68.500) The Antarctic |
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In summer 2005 the Association of Freed Times (AFT) published an article in Artforum. "El Diaro del Fin del Mundo: A Journey That Wasn't" described environmental damage to the Antarctic ice shelf and the subsequent mutations occurring within the Antartic ecosystem. One of these mutants is rumoured to be a solitary albino penguin living on an uncharted island near Marguerite Bay. The article documents French artist Pierre Huyghe's journey to find the island and its mysterious inhabitatnt, and forms the first part of an event that culminated in a musical on the Wollman ice rink in New York's Central Park, where "in accordance with a principle of equivalence, a symphone orchestra 'plays' the form of this island" (Leydier 2006, 33). The expedition, film, installation, narrative and performance A Journey that Wasn't documents European imaginings of elsewhere, while at the same time suspending relationships between ficition and reality. Questions remain over whether Huyghe and his team undertook the trip, and if so, what it was they found there. "Perhaps, they reasoned, desire itself might produce the island" (AFT 2005, 299). |
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