Title: Das Eismeer aus Licht NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day, Feb 8, 2011 Image Credit: © Charles Stankievech + Anna Sophie Springer, 2011 Questions + Requests for permission for publication: studio@stankievech.net
Sunday, May 20
7pm
$5 admission
Lecture and audiovisual presentation by Charles Stankievech
Over the Rainbow, Under the Radar is an audiovisual presentation of artist Charles Stankievech’s experience of the Arctic as a hybrid zone of brute reality and fantasy projection. Combining archival material, scientific theories, geopolitical maps and the artist’s own fieldworks, the lecture engages ideas of military colonialism and communication technology embedded in the sublime landscape. Stemming from Stankievech’s time living in Northern Canada and travelling to remote military outposts, Over the Rainbow draws from primary research ranging from his visit to the archives at Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology as well as a residency with the Canadian Department of National Defense at the northernmost settlement in the world (the Signals Intelligence Station ALERT). The resulting material includes images and video taken by the artist published by NASA and commissioned by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, as well as shown in museums and galleries from Palais de Toyko, Paris to the Musee d’art Contemporain in Montréal. The lecture was originally commissioned for the Phyllis Lambert Seminar 2011 at Université de Montréal.
This event is co-presented by Observatory and SP Weather Station. For more information visit: SP Weather Station