Architecture shaped by climate change - casting glacial ice in concrete
Studio Other Spaces' proposal for Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Greenland
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The Ilulissat Icefjord Park uses the melting of ice to shape space. Studio Other Spaces has created a unique design strategy where ice is at once the formwork of a concrete structure and the focal point of the resulting space. For the Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Studio Other Spaces uses naturally calved icebergs harvested directly from the nearby ice fjord to create an exhibition building, called the Ice Void, which harbours in its walls the memory of the ice that was used to shape it. Together with the Ice Void, and linked to it outdoors by a 360-degree path, the Sun Cone building defines the Icefjord Park. The light glass structure of the Sun Cone positions the visitor centre directly in the landscape and offers guests a spectacular panoramic view of the surroundings and the Arctic sun. The park helps make the overwhelming experience of visiting the ice fjord comprehensible – providing visitors with a scale for contemplating and relating to the awe-inspiring ice fjord.
Encounters with Ice Watch. Featuring dancers from Paris Opera Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor
More about the Ice Watch project here: www.icewatchparis.com
Harvesting glacial ice that has broken off from the Greenland ice sheet #PresenceofAbsence
"At first we feel nothing, we are insensitive, we are naturalized. And then suddenly we feel not something, but the absence of something we did not know before could possibly be lacking"
Excerpt from Bruno Latour "Air"
The presence of absence opens 9 December at neugerriemschneider, Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgH0ZzZ6Oo&feature=youtu.be
Minik Rosing, professor in Geology, talks about glacial rock flour
Video by Underground Channel
Tribute: Gunnar Örn, Icelandic artist (1946-2008)
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Deutscher Zukunftpreis 2016 - Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck
Pentagonal Landscapes opens February 8, Emma Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdVijr10DZ0
Inspirational project: Artificial glaciers in Himalaya
Still river, 2016, Long Museum, Shanghai. A film by SHIMURAbros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4Isy8dshU
Discussing the Green light project with anthropologist Andreas Roepstorff at TBA21—Augarten, Vienna
Green light travels to Moody Centre for the Arts, Houston, 24 February—May 2017
Check out this website for more artists climate conversations: www.acclimatize.modernamuseet.se
