On the occasion of the Global Climate Action Summit taking place in San Francisco from Wednesday - Little Sun friends and partners Rebecca Foon and Jessie Paris Smith are hosting another Pathway To Paris concert, and Olafur and Little Sun will be there alongside a great line up of musicians and activists
We're very excited to share our radically re-designed video platform: SOE.TV – created by designer and developer Alan Woo in collaboration with the studio. Reaching out to a global audience, SOE.TV offers glimpses into the experiment-based, research-driven work at the studio and the activities of SOE Kitchen, as well as documentation of Eliasson’s artworks, architectural projects, and exhibitions. SOE.TV also includes rich archival footage from workshops, events, and symposia hosted by the studio and IFREX, the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments). As the platform grows, it will expand to host films by a range of artists, thinkers, filmmakers, researchers, and more.
Happy Ethiopian New Year! We are celebrating with these lovely memories from this year’s poetry jazz collaboration. Read World Literature Today and find more contributions and poems.
Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold is an experimental get-together of acclaimed poets and musicians, joining in an exercise of styles and improvisation. They engage in investigations of geographical places that are based on a plethora of acoustic sources, ranging from traditional flute playing to the latest urban field recordings. Continual shifts in languages, reiteration, fragmentation, translations, and re-translations, as well as changes in metres and rhythms, create awareness of the subtle divergences of meaning that can be attributed to social and cultural influences, while exploring the gains and losses of such unspoken and outspoken interactions – find out more here: Institut for Spatial Experiments
Spencer Tunick's Bodø Bodyscape installation, with Little Sun Diamonds, part of Bodø Biennale, Norway
How to build a sphere out of cubes, 2018, Texas A&M University.
How can we push our governments to take real climate action?
Video by Anttii Lipponen
Olafur’s solo exhibition ‘WASSERfarben’ (WATERcolours) at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is on view for one more week, until 2 September. An accompanying book published by Walther König, ‘Eliasson: WATERcolours’, is also for sale at the exhibition and online.
Tomorrow at SOE KITCHEN 101 in Reykjavik – Björk Bjarnadóttir will offer a guided tour to forage Icelandic herbs and wild berries near Brennholt farm. Björk Bjarnadóttir and Tomas Ponzi are tomato-growing masters, and they are supplying SOE Kitchen 101 with fresh salads, tomatoes, and herbs. The tour will end with a final get-together at Brennholt, in Tomas and Björk’s amazing garden and greenhouses with a hot drink and the handpicked berries as toppings for homemade muffins.
Closing on Saturday: 'Reality projector' at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Tomorrow at SOE KITCHEN 101 in Reykjavik – artist Raul Walch is conducting a kite-making workshop. Since 2015, Raul Walch has been developing various flying objects and kites with students, refugees, and artist groups. Continuing his engagement with SOE Kitchen 101, Walch is initiating a participatory kite-making workshop that will lead to collective flying experiments. During the workshop, families are welcome to build their own polymorphic and colourful objects, which will float above the Reykjavik harbour at the end of the workshop day.
#climaterefugees #assistedmigration When the climate changes, so do the living conditions for living species. People and animals can, to a certain extent, migrate on their own, but are plants able to migrate at a fast enough speed, and could assisted migration or augmented ecology play a role? Artist Theun Karelse did an experiment in ‘assisted-migration’ at Nida Art Colony by introducing a sample of three lichen species from Portugal to Lithuania as official climate refugees, in association with Neringa Forestry Department. Theun writes in his Fieldguide to Next Doggerland: ‘For some species, keeping up with the northward shift of habitats may be challenging. A bird can migrate quite easily, but mosses for instance might be far too slow. Assisted migration is a controversial ecological technique that proposes to help the slower species reach northern grounds by manually taking them there. During the Techno Ecologies residency in Nida Art Colony I brought a lichen sample collected during a previous project in Spain to present it officially at the National Park as a climate refugee. The small lichen sample, containing three separate species, served as a starter for this complex discussion. The request for asylum was officially accepted by the head of the forestry department, who assumed the little guys would die immediately in winter. After an extensive visual survey of the Curonian Spit lichen populations, I found a wonderful spot close to the Art Colony where all three species on my little branch had Lithuanian cousins. Remarkably, this is at the site of a prehistoric settlement. The specimen thereby joined a rich local history of climate travellers. During the Techno Ecologies symposium in spring the next year I immediately went to pay my Spanish friends a visit, and you know what? They survived the winter!' www.theunkarelse.net
Come join us at the long table at SOE KITCHEN 101, Marshall House, Reykjavik
Opening Satuday: SOE KITCHEN 101, Marshall House, Reykjavik, 2018. Video by Timothee Lambrecq
Closing this weekend: Your sound galaxy, The unspeakable openness of things, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, 2018. Film by SHIMURAbros. Music by Mouse on the Keys
SOE KITCHEN 101, Marshall House, Reykjavik, 2018. Video by Timothee Lambrecq
Film by Elias Hjörleifsson - Victoria Eliasdottir and Olafur Eliasson's father. Elias worked as a chef on a fishing boat and was also an artist.
On the road in Iceland with SOE KITCHEN 101 and Victoria Eliasdottir visiting local suppliers. The culinary project opens on Saturday.
By climate scientist Ed Hawkins via The Climate Museum