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Oona Stern
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ON EXHIBIT: monacobreen N79°31.14 E12°24.85
Oona Stern and Cheryl Leonard: Adfreeze Project
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Kurant Gallery, Tromsø, Norway
Insomnia Festival for Future Music and Techno Culture
October 21-22, 2011
In October 2011 visual artist Oona Stern and composer Cheryl Leonard sailed in the Svalbard archipelago with the Arctic Circle artist residency. We gathered material for Adfreeze Project, a series of portraits of select sites in the region.
Our first piece, Monacobreen, was delveloped for exhibition at the Kurant Gallery in Tromsø, Norway, in conjunction with the Insomnia Festival for Future Music and Techno Culture. This piece is based on the Monaco Glacier in Liefdefjorden, on the north side of Spitsbergen. A composition using field recordings is combined with video projected onto the floor of the gallery, overlaying a pattern of transported stones. A silhouette of the glacier is rendered on the walls.
The installation brings aspects of Svalbard's unique environment into the gallery, in a way which places the viewer into the glacial fjord itself, conveying the nature of light, sound, space, and time from a remote region. Combining scientific practices (research) with artistic ones (presentation), the goal of Adfreeze Project is to relate the characteristics of the Arctic: its temporal attributes, unique physicality, and spiritual presence. Adfreeze is part of a new generation of earthworks which seek not only to (re)present nature, but to facilitate the growing desire of people all over to live with nature rather than try to conquer it.
View the installation at:
http://vimeo.com/30934593
More on Adfreeze Project:
adfreezeproject.com
| RECENTLY ON EXHIBIT: the reluctant naturalist
Oona Stern: the reluctant naturalist
Monday, January 24 – Saturday, February 26, 2011
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FINE ARTS GALLERY
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FINE ARTS GALLERY invites you to an exhibition of new drawings and sculpture by OONA STERN, including a site-specific mural developed exclusively for this exhibit. Please join us for a reception and gallery talk with Oona Stern on Wednesday, February 2, from 11 am to 1 pm. Special guest Cheryl Leonard, sound artist and composer, will perform work developed in Antarctica.
In January 2009 Oona Stern travelled to Palmer Station in Antarctica as a fellow with the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The study of ice and its structures was the focus of Stern's Antarctic research, and the reluctant naturalist is the first solo exhibition of work based on her residency.
Palmer Station, on Anvers Island in the archipelago of the Antarctic Peninsula, offered easy observation of many forms of ice - from calving glaciers to fields of brash ice drifting on the tide out to sea. Motoring daily to different sites in a Zodiak boat, Stern produced dozens of field drawings and shot thousands of photographs. This research data is the source material for the work exhibited. The exhibit, which ranges from sketchbooks to sculpture, reveals both the visual tapestry of this rarely visited region, as well as the range of support services which makes such research possible.
The National Science Foundation created the Antarctic Artists and writers Program to facilitate work in the arts to promote the Antarctic heritage of humankind, increasing public understanding of the region.
| Palmer Station, Antarctica January 2009
A residency granted through the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program of the National Science Foundation.
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