Almost annually since 2006, Studio Olafur Eliasson has hosted a get-together called Life is space (formerly Life in space). For this day-long event, scientists, artists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners, and movement experts come together with the Institut für Raumexperimente participants and the studio team to share, discuss, present, and experiment. These meetings are only loosely planned in advance and are largely left to intuition and serendipity.
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Take a 24 hour trip around Iceland with Sigur Rós
The presence of absence - open until Saturday at neugerriemschneider, Berlin
The adjacent possibilities. Cube meets octahedron. #studio
Motion perception, a film by artist Benjamin Skop
Catching black holes with X-rays #NASA
Everyday planetary awareness #studio
Life Is Space: Christine de Smedt and Eszter Salamon perform lioning exercise, 2011
Life Is Space: Hildur Guðnadóttir makes a drawing with her cello, 2011
The book documenting this event was made in collaboration with Graphic Thought Facility and Peter Saville, the publication employs a special randomisation principle to make each book in this limited edition a unique object. More about the book here
Life Is Space: Eric Ellingsen performs two poems, 2011
Life is space: Ann Lislegaard presents Time Machine, 2011
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In memory of John Berger: Watch or re-watch his seminal Ways of Seeing, 1972
I grew up in solitude and silence, 1991
Inspirational project: Ice stupa artificial glaciers by Sunam Wangchuk
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Artificial glaciers shaped like "stupas", whose shape keeps them frozen until spring, when water in the Himalayas become sparse because of retrieving glaciers. Architect Sunam Wangchuk first began constructing the ice stupas in Ladakh, and is now collaborating with architects and glaciologist to take the idea to other places. Here he is working with a Swiss team, including landscape architect Günther Vogt.
The global impact of Little Sun
Rainbow assembly, 2016, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul - A film by SHIMURAbros