Moon Geese and Beyond – blending art and science
Thursday 14 November 2019, 7 pm
— A conversation between artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis and curator Ulla Taipale
- Speakers
- Agnes Meyer-Brandis and Ulla Taipale
- Venue
- CosmoCaixa
- Language
- English
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This illustrated conversation between artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE) and curator Ulla Taipale (FI) digs into the process and making-of behind the long-term project and performance with the fantastic Moon Geese. English bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633) discovered “Moon Geese”, a special migration bird species that instead of traveling to the South, head their yearly flight to the Moon. Meyer-Brandis and Taipale tested the descriptions of Godwin in Siberia during the Expedition to the total solar eclipse in 2008 and after the promising results of this Russian moon flight with local Moon Geese, Meyer-Brandis continued working with her own geese colony on an Italian farm, to train them for future space travels. The audience has a chance to see unedited material from the expedition to Russia, and of the Moon Goose astronaut in Italy, amongst others.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
- Artist, Speaker
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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
Ulla Taipale
- Curator, Speaker
Ulla Taipale is Finnish curator, researcher and artist based in Barcelona and Finland. Her curatorial and artistic work is often situated at biological field stations, botanical gardens, zoological parks and cemeteries, building bridges between art and science communities and facilitating dialogue between artists, scientists, and the general public. She works as Art&Science Curator at University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Earth System Reserach (INAR). In 2011-14 she was project manager of Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts at Aalto University. She holds a BSc in Environmental Engineering and a Master of Arts. Art&Science projects, exhibitions and workshops by Taipale has been shown internationally; at CCCB (Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Spain) (2006-2008), Santa Mónica Art Centre, Barcelona (2006-7), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (2009), Pixelache Festival (Finland) 2009-2016, at European Capital of Culture Turku2011 program, Fundación Joan Miró Barcelona (2018), 1000 Ecologies Biennale, Geneva (2019), among others.
