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Ariana, The last tour & Travelling Amazonia

The French artist Marine Hugonnier made three video works that show the artist’s exploration of the entanglement between history, geography and its representation. The question of ‘viewpoint’ is addressed in a different way in all three of the films.

 

Ariana (2003)

Ariana questions the implications of the panoramic shot, its relation to political power, and at the same time tells the story of a trip and an undertaking that was never completed. Its failure is the film’s central theme.

Marine Hugonnier, Ariana

 

The last tour (2004)

The Last Tour is a fiction in the near future, showing the ‘last’ voyage in a hot air balloon over the Matterhorn national Park. The film seems to introduce the moment that scenic outings will defintively belong to the past, at “the end of the society of the spectacle”.

Marine Hugonnier, The last tour

 

Travelling Amazonia (2006)

The film’s narrative is centered around the Transamazonia highway, a massive project devised by the Brazilian government in the seventies to establish a route that would bisect the Amazon forest and connect the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. The objective of Hugonnier and her team is to build a dolly and tracks with the same materials as were employed in building the highway. The construction of the Transamazonia generated an industry around the extraction of natural resources like metal, wood and rubber. Hugonnier and her team make use of these materials to film upon the very same road a 'travelling shot', which re-enacts the linearity of the Transamazonia highway and which recalls the pioneering ideals that this colonialist project embodied.

Marine Hugonnier, Travelling Amazonia

 

 

text via kunsthalle-bern.ch

images from artnet.com

more on  frieze.com

this post will be updated if the artists website comes online again.

 

Harm Van Den Dorpel, Ostrich

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Harm Van Den Dorpel, Ostrich

The cliché thought about ostriches is their hiding behavior, putting their head in the ground. I like to do this too in my work. by hiding or taking the original meaning away, the only meaning left is that of a bare and empty visual language. I think there is a lot of beauty in these residues.

Katie Paterson, Vatnajokull (the sound of)

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Katie Paterson, Vatnajokull (the sound of)

An underwater microphone lead into Jökulsárlón lagoon - an outlet glacial lagoon of Vatnajökull, filled with icebergs - connected to an amplifier, and a mobile-phone, which created a live phone line to the glacier. The number 44(0)7757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, the listener put through to Vatnajökull. A white neon sign of the phone number hung in the gallery space.