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Olafur speaking about energy access and Little Sun via Mashable
The unspeakable openness of things, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
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Firewood and battery-powered torches are the primary sources of light among the displaced community in Ethiopia, which prove to be challenging to collect or expensive to maintain. Internally displaced women and girls can be highly vulnerable to risks like gender based violence with displacement camps often located far from major infrastructure such as electricity.
Ader and her daughters say they always put it on when they head out to meet with neighbours after dark. “We have received water, food, and other essential items. Almost as important to us now is this light. It has become a real little sunshine in our house. We use it at night to cook and organize our place. Our house is much brighter. Now we spend hours talking around the light,” the mother said, explaining how the Little Sun has brought the family together around it. “Without this light it was dangerous to walk around outside at night.”
IOM - United Nations Migration Agency teamed up with Little Sun to bring an innovative, environmentally conscious alternative of solar lights to better equip displaced families to overcome such challenges. To date, over 20,000 Little Suns were distributed to internally displaced women in Ethiopia through IOM. The dignity kits accompanied 21,535 emergency shelter and core relief packages distributed by IOM in 2017.
Learn more about the Little Sun Foundation
Reality projector, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles.
Sound recordings at the studio. This audio library was sent to the musician and sound artist Jónsi, who selected, mixed, and arranged the material in dialogue with Olafur into an ambient soundscape to accompany the artwork Reality projector
Greetings from Addis Ababa - from the Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold.
Two unthought thoughts at the Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing. The exhibition The unspeakable openness of things opens on Sunday
Your embodied garden, 2013, Master of Nets Garden and the Lion Grove Garden, Suzhou, China.
"What particularly interests me about the scholar’s garden are its various temporal aspects: the creation of the garden, the cycle of changing seasons, but also the visitors’ physical moving-through its convoluted and intricately linked spaces. What I find so inspiring is that these different notions of time passing are taken as explicit co-producers of the garden. When I went into the scholar’s garden, I saw the garden, but I also saw the limits of what I could see; I saw the construction of my own way of seeing things. I used the garden to reflect myself. It was gardening me, so to speak, and it was also gardening Steen’s body. It directed his relatively minimal movements, with me giving choreographic input on an intuitive and emotional level: Steen ‘becoming’ a garden, a tree, or a rock, but also becoming a user of the garden, of its conditions. This meant inversing our perspective, to look at the body as a result of the garden, not the other way around." www.soe.tv
The unspeakable openness of things - opens 24 March at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
The newly launched Little Sun Foundation is an extension of the Little Sun social business. The Foundation’s mission is to bring solar energy to the most vulnerable communities worldwide who are off the grid and beyond the reach of entrepreneurial distribution models. These communities include remote schools, refugee camps, and people affected by natural disasters. The Solar Kids School Program is the Little Sun Foundation’s first official project and has already successfully raised funds for 3200 solar lamps in rural Rwanda Solar Schools Programme
Olafur on Reality projector - University of Southern California - Visions & Voices
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Excerpt from Buckminster Fuller - How Little I Know
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Oskar Fischinger, Optical Poem, 1938 - excerpt from above review: "Like an avant-garde animation by Hans Richter or Oskar Fischinger (an avant-garde artist who once worked for MGM), an abstract “movie” of sliding, blooming rectangles, parallelograms, triangles and trapezoids plays across the giant screen — minus the film stock, of course, and blown up to monumental scale. Traditional cinematic editing devices; wipes, dissolves, cuts — are produced by the overlapping, moving shapes, further enlivening the geometric imagery."
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Hans Richter, Rhytmus 21, 1921
Studio Visits: Oliver Morton shares his insights on terra-forming and geo-engeenering. www.soe.tv
Reality projector - opens today at The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Click on image for more. Photos: Joshua White
Fjordenhus - an artwork by Olafur Eliasson and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Vejle Denmark. Opens 9 June. Client: Kirk Kapital. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Studio Visits - with philosopher Timothy Morton
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Reality projector soundscape - Olafur recorded the sounds of a piano as it arrived and was set up at the studio and as he experimented on it with found objects. This audio library was sent to the musician and sound artist Jónsi, who selected, mixed, and arranged the material in dialogue with Olafur into an ambient soundscape to accompany the artwork Reality projector. Opens March 1 at The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Studio Kitchen Visits: Artist duo and resident filmmakers at the studio SHIMURAbros joined the kitchen team to make Shojin Ryori - a vegetarian, Japanese, Buddhist concept of using every part of the vegetables, not letting anything go to waste. See full film on www.soe.tv where you can also see some of the artistic work SHIMURAbros did for the studio
“Over centuries we’ve schooled ourselves in taking multiple perspectives through criticism and self-criticism. If the training takes, we are intellectually supple, trained not only by analytical argumentation but also by imaginative literature and films to envision the world with different eyes. We need an analogous suppleness for timescales, from the nanosecond to the eon and everything in between.” Time (and time again) a conversation with historian of science Lorraine Daston and Andrew Yang. Read full conversation on www.anthropocene-curriculum.org
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Lorraine Daston in conversation with Olafur Eliasson and Mohsen Mostafavi at Institut für Raumexperimente: The Passions in Which Time Stands Still: Horror, Terror, and Wonder
Driftwood compass, 2018