"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"
Harvesting glacial ice that has broken off from the Greenland ice sheet #PresenceofAbsence
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
Glacial rock flour garden, 2016, Palace of Versailles.
Listen to Rosing's talk about the material below or click on image to learn more about the artwork
The circular space in the middle of the Bosquet de la Colonnade in the the Gardens of Versailles was filled with a thick layer of moraine – granite that was ground into a fine grey powder over centuries by moving glaciers. The claylike material surrounds the sculpture of Pluto abducting Persephone, the goddess of fertility. The installation is one result of Eliasson’s ongoing dialogue with geologist Minik Rosing, who is developing plans to export moraine from Greenland to tropical and subtropical areas, where it can be used to revitalise the depleted soil, as it is a rich source of the mineral nutrients that sustain crops and other plants.
