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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.

 

From one to many

via transmediale.de

Yvette Mattern, 'From one to many' (2010)
A giant straight laser powered rainbow appeared in the nightly sky above Berlin at Futurity Now, last year at Transmediale.10 (2 - 6 february 2010).
The colorful beams started fairly low at the 'Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt' in the 'Tiergarten' and three kilometers further, ending high at the 'Fernsehturm' (TV tower) at the 'Alexanderplatz'.

see also: solargraph

Driessens & Verstappen, Fulgurites Endoscopy (2001)

Driessens & Verstappen, Fulgurites Endoscopy (2001)
A fulgurite is a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning. The immense heat in the core of the beam makes the sand vaporize, and a beautifully glazed inner surface remains. A machine is developed to observe these inner structures of fulgurites. The objects, mounted on an XY table can be viewed through an endoscope.