| Multimedia Performance Italian Premiere by and with Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
visual design A. J. Weissbard editing and image search V-Factory commissioned by
BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
for Next Wave 2009, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dartmouth College, UCSB Arts & Lectures produced by
Change Performing Arts and Music+Art Management executive production CRT Artificio D.J. Spooky is a conceptual artist, writer and musician who lives and works in New York. His articles have been published on “The Village Voice”, “The Source”, “Artforum”, “Raygun”, “Rap Pages”, “Paper Magazine” and many other periodicals. As a media artist his work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial, at the 2000 Venice International Architecture Exhibition, at the Ludwig Museum of Cologne (Germany), at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, at the Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh and in many other museums and galleries. | Antarctica is the only uninhabited continent in the world. It doesn’t belong to any government nor is annexed to any territory. Many states claim sovereignty over the different strata of this wide continent, truth is though that the area between 90° and 150° west latitude is the only part of the Antarctic continent, and of the world, that doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of any state. The latest project of Paul D. Miller (also known as DJ Spooky) is a multimedia performance that aims at creating a space for the Antarctic continent in everyone’s imaginary by rebuilding it with the use of digital technologies. With a portable recording studio and high definition cameras, DJ Spooky spent weeks capturing sounds and images of this ever-changing continent. Various materials converge into his sound and visual palette: historical maps, centuries old logbooks, ice sound frequencies and the earth’s magnetic poles. The result is a true visual and sound “experience” of the Antarctic continent. In the era of satellites, wireless connections and optical fibres, Dj Spooky’s Antarctic Suite comes across as the portrait of a territory made of geography and complex ecological interactions: a seventy minutes performance capable of creating a unique and powerful suggestion on the interaction between man and nature. |
