The Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency presents an exclusive screening by two French artists. Their cinematic works involve encounters between sublime terrains and speculative fictions.
The current Te Whare Hēra artist in residence Etienne de France shows
Tales of a Sea Cow ( 2012) - which takes its inspiration from actual scientific research to re-discover an extinct sea mammal off the coast of Greenland.
A Journey That Wasn’t (2005), by Pierre Huyghe - a renowned multimedia artist, noted for his reuses of film and media footage, stages an Antarctic voyage in search of an albino penguin. The penguin is said to live on an island recently made visible due to climatic changes responsible for the environments ice melting. Huyghe then re- creates the expedition as a theatrical light and sound show on an ice-skating rink in New York’s Central Park.
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Tales of a Sea Cow / A Journey That Wasn’t, Massey University. 2016. Photograph by Daniel Boobyer.
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Tales of a Sea Cow / A Journey That Wasn’t, Massey University. 2016. Photograph by Daniel Boobyer.
