Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858)
Janet Biggs
Analix Forever, Chêne-Bourg
Première
- Title
- Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858)
- Gallery
- Analix Forever, Chêne-Bourg
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 12 min
- Format & Technical
4K video, 16:9
- Contact
analixforever@bluewin.ch
- Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858) is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm.
This immersive multi-channel video installation follows the path of a historic solar eclipse through the Amazon rainforest, blending personal memory, indigenous history, and ecological urgency. Inspired by her late mother’s experience with dementia and supported by National Geographic/Lindblad, Biggs’ work offers a powerful meditation on connection, transformation, and the fragile balance between humans and the natural world.
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Janet Biggs is a research based, interdisciplinary artist known for her work in video, film and performance. Biggs’ work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations, navigating the territory between art, science and technology. Her work has taken her into areas of conflict and to Mars (as a member of crews at the Mars Desert Research Station and Mars Academy USA). Biggs has worked with institutions from NOAA to NASA and CERN. She has collaborated with high energy nuclear physicists, neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers and astrophysicists.
Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Visionary Woman Award, the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, the Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Art Matters, Inc.,the Wexner Center Media Arts Program Residency, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award.
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Analix Forever
- Address
- Rue du Gothard 10, 1225, 1204, Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland
- Phone
- +41 22 860 03 72
- analixforever@bluewin.ch
- Website
- www.analixforever.com
Founded in 1991 in Geneva by Barbara Polla, Analix Forever is an independent art space, where images (still and moving), poetry, drawings, music and performance art freely bloom. It has been promoting video art through gallery and institutional exhibitions, series of talks and video shows entitled “Video Forever” that travelled the world, and its annual video award to first year students of Le Fresnoy (France). Women video artists are particularly celebrated, notably with the exhibitions ‘Moving Women’ and ‘Fucking Beautiful’, as well as animation films as they combine the gallery’s main focuses, moving images and drawings. Analix Forever believes that working with artists is a long-term commitment, and accompanies them over different life steps, sometimes over decades. Analix Forever believes in “acting utopias”: it acts, locally and internationally, on the ideals it defends. Since 2023, Analix Forever shares ideas and creative methods to elaborate peace experiments together with artists.