82 Pure Freude an Wasser Central to our understanding of the seas are tales of explo ration migration and travel from the voyages of Captain Cook to contemporary news images of migration Janaina Tschäpe uses books or more accurately concertina like fanfolds as her medium The artist illustrated marine biologist David Gruber s descriptions of deep sea life forms from bacteria to monstrous fish Merging fact and fiction her drawings allude to the botanical and faunal drawings of 18th and 19th century explorers Drawing from his own experiences is Alexander Lee also a participant in the TBA21 expedition that took him to his native French Polynesia The resulting video Me ti a An Island Standing 2017 uses documentary images from a boat expedition by Lee and his collaborators to Mehetia the volcanic hotspot east of Tahiti from which all of the Society Islands have emerged This footage is merged with the legend of Vaita a Raiatean priest who prophesied the landing of British naval officer Samuel Wallis in Tahiti seven years before his actual arrival in 1760 an event that changed the fate of the region forever Jana Winderen traveled from the North Pole to the Pacific to make underwater field recordings Her sound installa tion bára 2017 references whales crustaceans and fish and reflects on the dangers of noise pollution Darren Almond in contrast focuses on the Antarctic as a void a white space characterized by the absence of humanity His video A 2002 from the TBA21 collection shows an area devoid of humans yet its menacing soundtrack re minds us that rising temperatures will inevitably destroy this pristine space while melting ice and accompanying sea level changes will wreak global havoc These artworks all take the swirling motion of Brath waite s title and build rivers of understanding from its eddying motion where the waves of the future are still washing over us TUE GREENFORT In Tamoya Ohboya 2017 Tue Greenfort presents an aquarium with living jellyfish exploring the consciousness of these mysterious aquatic organisms that have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years P ho to p 8 1 S ile nc in g of t he R ee fs J an a W in de re n 2 01 3 p ho to J os e A le ja nd ro A lv ar ez A ll th is p ag e In st al la tio n vi ew T ue G re en fo rt Ta m oy a O hb oy a Ti da le ct ic s T hy ss en B or ne m is za A rt C on te m po ra ry V ie nn a 2 01 7 p ho to J or it A us t

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