Magnetic Realm

Primal Tourism: Tour (2016), 10min. 48sec. is a 360 virtual reality video, that takes you on a first person journey through the imagined future landscape of Borabora developed by Jakob Kudsk Steensen. In the work, only ambiance sound effects are heard such as wind, leaves moving in the wind, water flowing and the eerie sound of an empty airport. As a virtual tourist experiencing the work, you will journey from subaquatic landscapes to mountaintops and abandoned future trashy tourist combined with primal lush tropical landscapes. As the work emphasizes the natural elements, experiencing the tour in VR delivers a corporal way of relating to human influences on landscapes

Embrace of the Serpent  2015, Ciro Guerra

Paintings by Angela Lane, 2015, oil on wood

A single horizontal pan in the rainforest and a teque-teque bird singing is pieced for an exploration of the structure of the medium and its physicality presence. Each teque-teque trill the image changes direction, turns, inverts flips or changes its focus, making along the 38" of the video all the possible combinations. The work comes accompanied with a small text in the press release about the bird teque-teque with a geometric drawing on it (see below). The text reads: "Also known as sebinho, ferrerinho or marrequinha, the Teque-teque is an insectivorous bird typical of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil Orinetal. Is a small bird (9cm.) easily recognizable by the yellow node in the chest, head bluish gray with yellow spots in the temples. Hunting invertebrates at the bottom of the treetops, downs to 1 meter above the soil. Like his fellow birds, feeds on small fruits and catch insects in midair. builds a wisted nest hunging on the tips of the branches (pendular) of about 30 cm. Bird of light habits, almost never stands still. Endangered."

From ‘Earth Without Aura: Notes on the Psychology of Contemporary Landscape’ By Zachary Cahill for Mousse Magazine

The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness, 2014 Super 16mm film transferred to Full HD video. 11 min. 09 sec.

Jonathas knows no other place than the Amazon, where he lives and works with his family. As a living being with its own will, the jungle has a fascinating attraction for tourists and also forms a seductive threat for Jonathas. Enchanting low-budget debut.

‘As its point of departure, [Shadowland] takes locations that in some way or another have been prominent in certain early Hollywood films as places of otherness or, to put it differently, places that have been used as stand-ins for other parts of the world. We see mostly depopulated or deserted landscapes, sceneries shot from vast vistas, images of seascapes and geological formations. The sound work is a dense mix of field recordings, partly voices of people telling stories about the places depicted as well as some sounds from the original films. Shot in the vicinity of Los Angeles – on grainy black and white 16 mm film stock, »Shadowland« is a subtle, yet forceful new addition to the already impressive filmography of this emerging major filmmaker.

Plastiglomerate has been acknowledged by key researchers as potential evidence of the Anthropocene era. Press can be found here:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/earth/future-fossils-plastic-stone.html?_r=0

FOREST retreat by Uhlik Architekti, České Budějovice, Czech Republic This hideaway located in the countryside was constructed from wood from a nearby forest and local sources from local craftsmen. Resting freely on boulders with a stern raised on a huge boulder, the enclosed black pavilion made of charred wood contains one interconnected multi-functional room with standing space, a view, seating benches, and a double bed.

Joan Ross ‘The history of the other world’, 2013 hand painted pigment on cotton rag paper 60.7 x 100 cm