MagNetZ With Louis Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska (2022/04/20) - ‘Out of Focus’ - Paleomagnetic Listening
Channel: MagNetZ
Date: 2022-04-20

‘Out of Focus’ — Paleomagnetic Listening

The video is also available for download at: https://earthref.org/ERDA/2524/
and can be referenced with the doi: 10.7288/V4/ERDA/2524

Title: ‘Out of Focus’ — Paleomagnetic Listening
Author: Louis Braddock Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands

An insight into the upcoming audiovisual project ‘Out of Focus’, which navigates the entanglements of geological events, mineral extraction, and post-colonialism in Northern Greenland. Through a multi-sensory approach inspired by indigenous cosmology, the audience is brought to the intimate proximity of climate change and its impact on both local and global communities. The presentation will include experiences from the field research on Meteorite Island and the results of art-scientific experiments done in collaboration with Paleomagnetic Laboratory (Utrecht University).

Biography: 

Louis Braddock Clarke and Zuzanna Zgierska work as an artist duo. As researchers and creative practitioners, they survey the landscapes of geological anomalies, anthropogenic displacement, and technocultures. Using original, experimental techniques, they challenge and explore the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in times of accelerated geographies. Louis and Zuzanna are both lecturers at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

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00:00 - Intro
01:33 - Presentation
31:54 - Questions
41:53 - Announcements