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"Eisbergfreistadt":
Overview:
Kahn/Selesnick's newest project, "Eisbergfreistadt"
documents "the creation of this principality which is inspired by an
actual incident in 1923 when a mammoth iceberg ran aground in the Baltic
port of Lubeck, towering over the town and terrifying the populace.
Many decided (not unreasonably) that the iceberg caps were melting and the
apocalypse coming. This event inspired gloomy cafe songs and penny
dreadfuls, even a deck of playing cards.
The Apollo Prophecies:
Overview:
The Apollo Prophecies Project has been in development and
production since 2002, when it was started at Toni Morrison's Atelier
Program at Princeton University. Working with 15 students, Kahn/Selesnick
built three major sculptural and architectural installation pieces, The
Mind Rocket, Lunar Explorer and the Moon Cabinet. A revelatory text
was created in collaboration with a brilliant physics graduate student,
Erez Lieberman. This text was altered by Kahn/Selesnick so that American
and Russian Astronauts involved in the 1960's-70's Aquarian lunar
expeditions became Gods for the Edwardian expedition members who were
waiting for them in their Mind Rocket. Initial props and costumes
were drawn and created.
Text excerpt
from "City of Salt" Exhibition: The city of salt now lies
quietly on the flats; its formerly bustling alley ways are now destitute,
its market places and squares buried. The city was built by a king
in the distant days of the third dynasty. According to local legend,
the king had once wandered his capital one night during a time of plague,
the more he wandered the more he became enamoured of the deathly silences
and stillness that held sway over the capital. By morning he had
resolved to build a deserted city as a funerary monument, a city where he
could wander in solitude for eternity. In
addition to the long panoramic photograph there is a mass installation of
small drawings and photographs. These feature Edwardian photographs of
moon rocks, schematic drawings and design notes, portraits of astronauts,
beaked and “debeaked” i.e. Edwardian and Aquarian, ephemera, etc. Also
featured is the visionary text.
Text excerpt from "Scotlandfuturebog"
exhibition:
In a certain sense, it is irrelevant to speculate on the origins of the
bogdwellers because they have become free of the tyranny of history.
For this reason traditional written and spoken languages have been
abandoned in favour of obscure non-hierarchical acts. In the grand
scheme of things the moving of a stone from a bleak hillside to a gloomy
valley a long distance hence has more significance than that of a
stupendous invention of the invasion of one territory by its neighbour or
even that of the apocalypse itself.
THE SIBERIAN EXPEDITION
OF 1944 - 46. An Introduction: In late 1942, former glider pilot and REC member Peter Hesselbach was reported missing in action during the
Russian offensive that repelled the German Army back across the Dnieper
River. When The Corp's head, Gordon Bindon-Bhore, received the news
he immediately assigned a team of psychics to search for Peter using an
obscure technique called remote viewing. Several days later, an REC
remote viewer named Tyler McWeeks became convinced that Hesselbach was
still alive and lost wandering in the vast remote region of Siberia east
of the Indigirka River. A three man expedition consisting of Bindon
MacRupert, Ian Brockman, and Gerrard Wescott was organized to travel to
Siberia and attempt to rescue Peter; as a secondary objective they were to
study indigenous tribal shamanism.
View Boston Globe art review by Cate McQuaid
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