MOTHER NATURE & THE TUNING OF THE WORLD
Island: 22 Artists on Iceland
Eastern Michigan University Gallery,
Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Curators: Amy Sacksteder and Greg Tom
The video stills you see above come from a new video work that were inspired by a song – ‘The Garden’ , written by the German postindustrial
and experimental noise band - Einsturzende Neubauten in 1989.
The retake recorded by the artist herself is a soulful, musically layered track
that introduces the viewer to a female creature who is known as ‘Mother
Nature’.
And who is ‘Mother Nature’? Perhaps, a female creature, part human, part spirit who guards and protects us against landscape predators?
Almost all early cultures revered nature and fearfully regarded her revenge and
destruction as an act of provocation, that resulted in mother nature unleashing
her wrath.
All instruments and voice-over have been recorded by the artist and
accompanying local musicians from Montreal. The video footage reveals layers
of the Icelandic landscape and its myths, its smells and its sounds. It can also
be a meditation on the psyche of things and the decline of the natural
environment around us. As a cultural construct, nature as always been
regarded with a measure of ambivalence, although celebrated as a spiritual
place, it has often simultaneously been feared as the abode of evil. In either
case, nature as in life has been regarded as a sanctuary for outsiders of every
kind at odds with their society.
Eastern Michigan University Gallery,
Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Curators: Amy Sacksteder and Greg Tom
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The video stills you see above come from a new video work that were inspired by a song – ‘The Garden’ , written by the German postindustrial
and experimental noise band - Einsturzende Neubauten in 1989.
The retake recorded by the artist herself is a soulful, musically layered track
that introduces the viewer to a female creature who is known as ‘Mother
Nature’.
And who is ‘Mother Nature’? Perhaps, a female creature, part human, part spirit who guards and protects us against landscape predators?
Almost all early cultures revered nature and fearfully regarded her revenge and
destruction as an act of provocation, that resulted in mother nature unleashing
her wrath.
All instruments and voice-over have been recorded by the artist and
accompanying local musicians from Montreal. The video footage reveals layers
of the Icelandic landscape and its myths, its smells and its sounds. It can also
be a meditation on the psyche of things and the decline of the natural
environment around us. As a cultural construct, nature as always been
regarded with a measure of ambivalence, although celebrated as a spiritual
place, it has often simultaneously been feared as the abode of evil. In either
case, nature as in life has been regarded as a sanctuary for outsiders of every
kind at odds with their society.