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      Simon Faithfull

      Ice Blink: An Antartic Essay

      128 pages | Full colour | 164 x 215 mm, Soft cover | 2006 | Edition of 1,500 copies
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Traveling to Antarctica on RSS Ernest Shackleton from RAF Brize Norton via Ascension Island and the Falklands, Simon Faithfull recorded the displaced and disorienting world he encountered by filming the view out of his cabin porthole and with daily Palm Pilot drawings, transmitted each day to email inboxes around the world. Combined with diary entries and notes, these drawing and films have been incorporated into a series of lectures presented in Edinburgh, Helsinki, Norwich, Berlin and London.

Reproduced in book form, Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay is a dispatch from nowhere, exploring the Antarctic as a hole in the imagination by combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories.

Co-published by Book Works with The Arts Catalyst.


イギリスの調査船RSS Ernest Shackletonは、ブライズノートン空軍基地からアセンション島とフォークランドを経由して、南極大陸をめざしていた。Simon Faithfullは自身が船の客室の窓から撮影した情景や、パームパイロットを日常的に描くドローイング、日々世界中から届くe-mailを通じて目の当たりにした、退廃的で完全に混乱した世界を記録した。日記も兼ねて書き記された記述 ドローイングや映画は、エジンバラ、ヘルシンキ、ノーリッジ、ベルリン、そしてロンドンの各編で繰り広げられる。

Ice Binkが本として再現した。 とある南極大陸のエッセイは警告なしで特派され、議論の対象となった未踏の領域のイメージとともに、南極の神話やフィクション、植民地としての労苦の歴史、氷山のライフサイクルや温暖化問題の実質効果などとあいまったイメージで南極を探索する。

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