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Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time


Everything Begins to Melt Here 
  1. Tega Brain
  2. Chen Xin
    & Zhang Wenxin
  3. Chen Zhe
  4. Fragmentin
  5. He Zike
  6. Ayoung Kim
  7. Johannes Langkamp
  8. Zoe Li
  9. Long Pan
  10. Anastasia Mityukova
  11. Christoph Oeschger
  12. Jaehun Park
  13. Susan Schuppli
  14. Shi Zheng
  15. Jakob Kudsk Steensen
  16. Pocono Zhao Yu

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  1. To Melt
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©2022 Iris Long
Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time


Everything Begins to Melt Here 
  1. Tega Brain
  2. Chen Xin
    & Zhang Wenxin
  3. Chen Zhe
  4. Fragment.in
  5. He Zike
  6. Ayoung Kim
  7. Johannes Langkamp
  8. Zoe Li
  9. Long Pan
  10. Anastasia Mityukova
  11. Christoph Oeschger
  12. Jaehun Park
  13. Susan Schuppli
  14. Shi Zheng
  15. Jakob Kudsk Steensen
  16. Pocono Zhao Yu
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©2022 Iris Long

The Other Side of Ice
冰的背面




Christoph Oeschger,The Other Side of Ice,2021,photography,framed text plates,461.5x153cm,image courtesy of the artist克里斯托夫·奥什格尔，冰的背面，2021年，摄影，文字装裱，461.5x153cm，图片版权归属艺术家

The historical scientific findings as well as the romanticized narratives and images of the Arctic strongly influence our perception of this part of the world today. With retreating ice, formerly inaccessible places and resources become accessible, the invisible becomes visible, national borders are shifting and new claims to resources are made. The Arctic is changing as never before, away from a romantic, idyllic image of wild, raw nature towards a technological place full of economic interests. The Arctic is turning into a hotspot, a place where both art and science have to form a new image and find a new understanding of this part of the world.

Through global warming, the Arctic is awakening new desires in land and sea distribution, raw material extraction and new global trade routes. The symbolic conquest of the seabed under the North Pole started in 2007: With a largescale diving operation at the North Pole, Russia has asserted its claim to the rich oil and gas reserves in the Arctic. An important player in this game is science. With its measurements and data it paves the way for the distribution of seawater, which in turn is used for infrastructure projects and the extraction of raw materials. The work will be a research on the polar regions and their transformation from an untouched wilderness to a new key economic location in a globalized economy.

历史上的科学发现以及对北极的浪漫化叙述和形象强烈地影响着我们今天对世界这一地区的看法。随着冰层的退缩，以前无法进入的地方和资源变得可以进入，不可见的东西变得可见，这对资源提出了新的定义。北极正在发生前所未有的变化，从一个浪漫的、田园诗般的野生自然形象转向一个充满经济利益的技术性场所。北极正在变成一个“热点”，一个艺术和科学都必须关注，并找到对世界这一地区的新理解的地方。这项工作将是对极地地区的研究，探索了北极从无人问津的荒野到全球化经济中新的关键经济地点的转变。