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circumsolar, migration 1
anchorage museum
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. thurs - sat
12 p.m. – 6 p.m. sun
dec 8, 2020
(Single-channel video installation. 26:20 minutes)
projected onto the museum façade, this video by rebeca méndez, artist, designer and a professor in the department of design media arts at ucla’s school of the arts and architecture, follows the migration of the arctic tern, a small sea bird that has the longest migration of all living beings on earth, flying from the arctic to the antarctic and back again each year. as such, it experiences two polar summers of 24-hour daylight each year, which makes it the one creature in the world that lives the most daylight. with the tern as its protagonist, circumsolar, migration 1 looks to explore larger themes critical to our time, such as the unstoppable force of migration; the ecological concern of climate change and other man-made detritus; the geopolitics of the changing landscapes of coastal lands and the arctic and antarctic regions; and at the limit of what is known, the role of the archetypal explorer, who goes beyond to bring back the boon to benefit all.
anchorage museum:
https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/circumsolar-migration-1/
