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INFORMATION
Contact: Laura Kurgan
Links: Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin
Status: Complete
DESCRIPTION
Laura Kurgan collaborated with Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin on Exits: a project in two parts, a multi-media installation which was on view at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, France from November 2008 – March 2009 as part of “Elsewhere starts here,” conceptualized by Paul Virilio. The project was part of a larger exhibition, Terre Natale: Stop Eject.
Global populations are unstable and on the move. Unprecedented numbers of migrants are leaving their countries for economic, political and environmental reasons. Exits, a project in two parts was created to quantify and display this increasing global trend. The first part offers an aesthetic reframing of the media’s coverage of global migrations. 48 computers hanging from the gallery ceiling store and display a living archive of news footage, photographs and documentaries about global migration and its causes. The clips are choreographed according to content and a variety of visual parameters, and programmed to move within the grid of screens. The 2nd part immerses the viewer in a dynamic presentation of data documenting contemporary human movement. Statistics documenting population shifts are not always neutral and the multiple efforts to collect them are decentralized and incomplete. Here the data are repurposed to build a narrative about global migration and its causes. The viewer enters a circular room and is surrounded by a panoramic video projection of a globe which rolls around the room printing maps as it spins. The maps are made from data which has been collected from a variety of sources, geogoded, statistically analyzed, re-processed through multiple programming languages and translated visually. The presentation is divided into narratives concerning population shifts, remittances, political refugees, natural disaster and sea-level rise.
In collaboration with Jeremy Linzee, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Stewart Smith; Aaron Meyers, Michael Doherty, and Hans-Christoph Steiner.
Terre Natale - Population Shift (Pixel Flock) from Stewdio on Vimeo.
Terre Natale - Population Shift (Graph) from Stewdio on Vimeo.
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