Blue Marble
NGBK, Berlin, DE
Mar 2008 -
May 2008
Marjolijn Dijkman
Examples of images used in Blue Marble
Title: Blue Marble
Duration: 3 minutes
Realised by: Marjolijn Dijkman and Visual Music
The "Katastrophenalarm" exhibition examines media fabrications of this kind and the appropriation of environmental disasters by politics. Artists were invited to analyse the mechanisms used to convey a sense of danger and the visual presentation of catastrophes. Some chose to take actual images or situations from the media as their starting point – for instance, the reporting of Hurricane Katrina or the environmental situation around California's salt-contaminated Salton Lake; others adopt a theory of culture approach to discuss the meaning of catastrophe as a concept, the effect it has on society or to go in search of the new vocabulary produced by the specific rhetoric of disasters. Many businesses make use of this language too and claim in their advertisements to have a 'green awareness'.
Curated by: Sophie Goltz, Christine Heidemann, Anne Kersten, Vera Tollmann, Ingo Vetter / Architektur: Oliver Clemens, Sabine Horlitz
Participating artist: Dave Hullfish Bailey (USA), Margit Czenki / Christoph Schäfer (D), Christoph Draeger (USA/CH), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Azin Feizabadi / Kianoosh Vahabi (D/IR), Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (CH), René Lück (D), Eva Meyer Keller (D), Claudia Mucha (D), Lisi Raskin (USA), Lise Skou / Nis Rømer (DK), spector cut+paste (Markus Dreßen / Anne König / Jan Wenzel) (D), Andrei Ujica (D/RO), Ingo Vetter (SE/D)
Location: NGBK, Berlin, DE
Duration: 3 minutes
Realised by: Marjolijn Dijkman and Visual Music
The "Katastrophenalarm" exhibition examines media fabrications of this kind and the appropriation of environmental disasters by politics. Artists were invited to analyse the mechanisms used to convey a sense of danger and the visual presentation of catastrophes. Some chose to take actual images or situations from the media as their starting point – for instance, the reporting of Hurricane Katrina or the environmental situation around California's salt-contaminated Salton Lake; others adopt a theory of culture approach to discuss the meaning of catastrophe as a concept, the effect it has on society or to go in search of the new vocabulary produced by the specific rhetoric of disasters. Many businesses make use of this language too and claim in their advertisements to have a 'green awareness'.
Curated by: Sophie Goltz, Christine Heidemann, Anne Kersten, Vera Tollmann, Ingo Vetter / Architektur: Oliver Clemens, Sabine Horlitz
Participating artist: Dave Hullfish Bailey (USA), Margit Czenki / Christoph Schäfer (D), Christoph Draeger (USA/CH), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Azin Feizabadi / Kianoosh Vahabi (D/IR), Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (CH), René Lück (D), Eva Meyer Keller (D), Claudia Mucha (D), Lisi Raskin (USA), Lise Skou / Nis Rømer (DK), spector cut+paste (Markus Dreßen / Anne König / Jan Wenzel) (D), Andrei Ujica (D/RO), Ingo Vetter (SE/D)
Location: NGBK, Berlin, DE
Blue Marble
Original Negative (70 mm) AS17-148-22727
The first ‘Blue Marble’ photo was taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers or about 18,000 statute miles. This image became one of the most widely distributed images in the world. This project investigates the appropriations and impact of this image. Instead of a single neutral image of the whole world this videowork reveals a collective image compiled of over 1500 images representing all sorts of projections on the world as a whole.
The photo ‘Blue Marble’ was originally taken ‘upside down’ in that the north pole was at the bottom of the photo. This is because of the orientation in which the astronauts were traveling at that moment. Since its release it has been used by ecological movements to illustrate the 'fragile' position of the planet Earth. background info (pdf)
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