Moon Geese and Beyond – blending art and science
Dijous 14 novembre 2019, 7 pm
— Una conversa entre l'artista Agnes Meyer-Brandis i la comissària Ulla Taipale
- Speakers
- Agnes Meyer-Brandis i Ulla Taipale
- Espai
- CosmoCaixa
- Idioma
- English
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Aquesta conversa il·lustrada entre l’artista Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Alemanya) i la comissària Ulla Taipale (Finlàndia) se centra en el procés del projecte de llarga durada i la performance amb les fantàstiques “Oques de la Lluna”. El bisbe anglès Francis Godwin (1562-1633) va descobrir les “Oques de la Lluna”, una espècie d’ocell migratori especial que en lloc de viatjar cap al Sud, emprèn el seu vol anual cap a la Lluna. Meyer-Brandis i Taipale van poder comprovar la veracitat de les descripcions de Godwin, a Sibèria, durant l’Expedició a l’eclipsi total de sol el 2008. Després dels prometedors resultats de les proves fetes amb “oques llunars” locals, que emprengueren el vol cap a la lluna russa, Meyer-Brandis va continuar treballant amb la seva pròpia colònia d’oques en una granja italiana, per a entrenar-les per a futurs viatges espacials. El públic tindrà l’oportunitat de veure material inèdit de l’expedició feta a Rússia, i de l’astronauta de l’Oca Lunar a Itàlia, entre d’altres.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
1973
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, born in 1973, first studied Mineralogy at the RWTH Aachen. After one year she transferred to the Art Academy Maastricht, Netherlands to study Sculpture. From 1996 to 2000 she belonged to in the master class at the Art Academy Düsseldorf. After a working stay in New York she attended the Academy of Media Arts Köln from 2001 to 2003. She was awarded to various scholarships and prizes, e.g.: Villa Aurora resident Los Angeles 2010. Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Ekaterinburg & Moscow, 2009, Russia. HMKV, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, NRW grant, 2009, Germany, Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, grant, 2006, Brazil, transmediale06 winner first price 2006, Germany. Kunstraum Aarau, Science & Cite Award, winner first price, 2005, Switzerland, Kunststiftung NRW, grant, Prix Ars Electronica, honorary mention, 2007 and 2003, Austria. Numerous single and group exhibitions: 2009 “Biennale am Ende der Welt”, Argentinien, „Art On Site”, 3rd Moscow Biennale, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Moskau, Russland 2004 “Transmitter“, emaf – European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück; 2004 BEAP – Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia; 2005 Kunstraum Aarau, Schweiz; Kunstraum Düsseldorf; Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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.
