Notes:
- An intervention that plunged deep into absurdity as well as as an artistic enquiry of the lengths a project can be pushed and merged across a range of fields -- storytelling, science, imagination, practice, etc. A mystical tale meets a committed attempt -- carries a child-like approach but also a scientific/ pseudo--scientific line of enquiries.
Video: https://vimeo.com/38986659
"In order to successfully raise the geese, she (Meyer-Brandis) consulted with geese breeders in Germany and Italy -- "we got into the geese breeder network" -- and to successful train them as astronauts, she drew on conversations with Nasa scientists during her visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2010."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/moon-geese
- A collaboration -- people that expertise in the fields of research that the artist's explorations take her into. Farming, science, space research, building certain terrains for the geese to get familiarised with the lunar landscape. A human - animal collaboration, a different way of encountering extraterrestrial realms. Kind of a joke, but done with all seriousness. Relates my my own methods of making within a landscape, kind of apart from society and overlooked through neglect -- kind of like an otherworldly place. Also relates to the idea of making fun of conventional documentaries about nature, space, the worlds that are described to lie apart from the general human population.
A careful, planned, long term process. Differers somewhat in this way to my projects as they tend to be more improvised and casual. Planned on the day and executed in weekly/ bi-weekly interventions. These are small, quick processes that make up a larger project through time.
Perhaps if my project spreads to include the wider NZ terrains then it will change in structure to become more schemed.
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