On the occasion of its second collaboration with LOOP, CosmoCaixa hosts a proposal by German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, whose work waves scientific facts and fiction with a personal touch of poetic imagination. Resulting from a commission by the ‘Arts Catalyst’ and ‘FACT’ Liverpool in 2011, THE MOON GOOSE ANALOGUE: Lunar Migration Bird Facility (MGA) is a multidisciplinary project that dramatizes the 1638’s novel by Francis Godwin The Man in the Moone, where the protagonist flies to the Earth satellite in a chariot towed by ‘moon geese’. Inspired by the book, Meyer-Brandis raised eleven moon geese from birth, giving them astronauts’ names, imprinting them on herself, and training them to fly in a remote Moon analogue habitat. As illustrated in the project’s documentary film The Moon Goose Colony (MGC), the artist carried out a potential interplanetary journey with the accuracy of scientific research, leaving viewers with a sense of wonder and the fascination for outer space.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE), lives and works in Berlin, DE. She comes from a background of both sculpture and new media art. Her work, exhibited worldwide and awarded, is exploring the zone between fact and fiction – an artistic research on the quest for a degree of reality within constructions. Selected Exhibitions: “Hors Pistes”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, 2019 / “Strata-Rock-Dust-Stars” York Art Gallery, UK, 2018 / “Cloud Cores, Moon Geese and Wandering Trees”, House of Electronic Arts HeK, Basel, CH, 2017 / „No Such Thing as Gravity“, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2017 / ”Setting Out“, apexart, New York City, 2016 / ”COSMOS“, Daejeon Museum of Art, KOR, 2016 / “Globale / Exo-Evolution” ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2015 / “Republic of the Moon”, Oxo Tower London, 2014 / Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2014.
Last update 15th October 2019