PETER KÆRGAARD ANDERSEN
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Shell Time
Video 13 min, 2020
Planet earth is changing. Movements of speed and slowness reconfigures the landscape. The time of living beings is composed by finitudes and time itself continously pushes towards the future. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s cosmicomic short story ‘Shells and Time’, the film explores how identity, culture, nature, technology and history can be imagened when not informed by the human eye and time scale. The short film Shell Time digs into ligurian coastal landscapes enacting a poetics of temporal and multispecies’ entanglements. It is a fragmented travellouge, narrated from the point of view of a prehistoric mollusc, passing through archeologic and geologic collections, artificial grottos, industrial film-archives, contemporary seaside landscapes, underwater lifeworlds, a seacow sleeping in the aqaurium and 3d animations. Speculating on the interconnections and coexistence between shell fossils and fossil fuels, seaside leisure time and seagrass extinction, plant heritage and industrial ruins. Drawing forward questions of pasts, presents and futures in the fragile environments of the anthroprocene.
Planet earth is changing. Movements of speed and slowness reconfigures the landscape. The time of living beings is composed by finitudes and time itself continously pushes towards the future. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s cosmicomic short story ‘Shells and Time’, the film explores how identity, culture, nature, technology and history can be imagened when not informed by the human eye and time scale. The short film Shell Time digs into ligurian coastal landscapes enacting a poetics of temporal and multispecies’ entanglements. It is a fragmented travellouge, narrated from the point of view of a prehistoric mollusc, passing through archeologic and geologic collections, artificial grottos, industrial film-archives, contemporary seaside landscapes, underwater lifeworlds, a seacow sleeping in the aqaurium and 3d animations. Speculating on the interconnections and coexistence between shell fossils and fossil fuels, seaside leisure time and seagrass extinction, plant heritage and industrial ruins. Drawing forward questions of pasts, presents and futures in the fragile environments of the anthroprocene.
Projects
What the World Eats / Rooibooooit Antecessorem
Experimental Video. Future scenario. Art, science, technology collaboration.
# - Food and technology, speculative futures, environment and materiality, robotics and humusities.
Digital Temporalities / Diorama #1
Print - ongoing trajectory. # Media and memory, digital archives, geology and digitalism.
A Garden - Lines, Traces and Threads
Garden Workshops, art/poetry/essay publication and more. # Gardening, fabulation, fieldwork of lines, onto-sympaties, eros and garden-kinships.
Sea Moon Traveller
Video
# Seaside archives and heritages, memory and landscape, tourists and moths, origin stories, water and life.
Botanical Relics
Tapestries / Installation
# Coastal Landscapes, plant, pathway and industries’ archives.
Facsimile
Textiles, photographies & film. # Urban intercultures, fieldwork, repitition and difference.
Selam Selam / When Stranges Move In
Essayistic documentary, workshops.
# Participatory filmmaking, fieldwork, mobiilty, becoming and identity.
Poster Campaigns
Urban interventions, posters, video & performances.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, participatory design, street vendors, urban space and play.
The People’s Park / African Cup of Nations
Events, posters, video & performance.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, football, soap opera, streaming, open air cinema.