Unsettling the Ground
Logged by: Amelyn Ng
exhibition contribution, print-publication, online-publicationYEAR:
2023
TYPE:
Lunar Dust entry and Dust Spill sample. Invited research contribution to "Down to Earth,” exhibition, Luxembourg Pavilion, 18th Venice Biennale 2023. Part of How-to: Mind the Moon, a research workshop with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
PARTICIPANTS:
Lev Bratishenko (CCA), Francelle Cane (curator), Anastasia Kubrak, Jane Mah Hutton, Marija Marić (curator), Amelyn Ng, Bethany Rigby, Fred Scharmen
LINKS:
online publication
Biennale exhibition
Photos by Anita Cariolaro & Antoine Espinasseau
2023
TYPE:
Lunar Dust entry and Dust Spill sample. Invited research contribution to "Down to Earth,” exhibition, Luxembourg Pavilion, 18th Venice Biennale 2023. Part of How-to: Mind the Moon, a research workshop with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
PARTICIPANTS:
Lev Bratishenko (CCA), Francelle Cane (curator), Anastasia Kubrak, Jane Mah Hutton, Marija Marić (curator), Amelyn Ng, Bethany Rigby, Fred Scharmen
LINKS:
online publication
Biennale exhibition
Photos by Anita Cariolaro & Antoine Espinasseau
INFO:
The material library “offers another way of reading five lunar materials: regolith, lunar dust, solar wind, seconal sodium, and aluminium. A perversion of the format of a material sample and datasheet—technical documents commonly used in material science to describe chemical and mechanical properties of materials—the workshop outlines another kind of material library, that which goes beyond the perceived scientific neutrality of materials. Instead, it frames the political, social, environmental, and cultural conditions of materials, both as a physical matter and a form of fiction.”
The outcome of the workshop — a material library — was exhibited as part of the exhibition Down to Earth at the 2023 Luxembourg Pavilion in Sale d’Armi, Arsenale di Venezia for the 18th Venice Biennale.
The material library “offers another way of reading five lunar materials: regolith, lunar dust, solar wind, seconal sodium, and aluminium. A perversion of the format of a material sample and datasheet—technical documents commonly used in material science to describe chemical and mechanical properties of materials—the workshop outlines another kind of material library, that which goes beyond the perceived scientific neutrality of materials. Instead, it frames the political, social, environmental, and cultural conditions of materials, both as a physical matter and a form of fiction.”
The outcome of the workshop — a material library — was exhibited as part of the exhibition Down to Earth at the 2023 Luxembourg Pavilion in Sale d’Armi, Arsenale di Venezia for the 18th Venice Biennale.