THE ARKnA site specific installation by Romain Tardy and Squeaky LobsternProyecta Oaxaca, Ethnobotanical garden of Oaxaca, MexiconnConcept &...
THE ARKnA site specific installation by Romain Tardy and Squeaky LobsternProyecta Oaxaca, Ethnobotanical garden of Oaxaca, MexiconnConcept & Visual design by Romain TardynMusic composed by Squeaky LobsternProject management & production by Nicolas BoritchnnThe Ark is a site specific installation, commissioned by and presented during Proyecta Oaxaca, festival de diseño y artes digitales.nnThe Ark is built around the cacti that line the Aljibe, at the heart of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca.nnAdopting a poetic approach, The Ark gives voice to the garden’s plants, participants in the work, the beating heart of the space and an unpredictable choir.nnTelling their story, revealing their fantasised and fantastical character, The Ark is the mise-en-abîme of the trail. A three part audio-visual installation, it unfolds like a movie set in space, in which the wandering spectator plays the role of the camera.nnMore info at www.antivj.comnnnProyecta OaxacanOn the invitation of Proyecta Oaxaca, several artists from the ANTIVJ visual label have devised four visual and sonic works to be installed at the heart of the Ethnobotanical Garden in Oaxaca. Conceived of as a trail of light, these in-situ works offered the chance to (re)discover a singular and magical location in a particularly unique way – by opening the garden to the public at night.nnA trail of the senses, in several variations, it also presents spectators the perspective of four artists on this atypical space, in which ancient nature and new technology come face to face, like a distant echo of the ancestral techniques that have allowed for its conservation.nnThe trail consisted of the following four works:nOnion Skin, by Olivier Ratsi & Thomas VaquiénThe Ark, by Romain Tardy & Squeaky Lobstern3Destruct | Oaxaca, by Yannick Jacquet, Thomas Vaquié & Jeremie PeetersnRéplica, by Laurent Delforge & Thomas VaquiénAll projects managed by Nicolas Boritch.nnProyecta Oaxacancontent director: Manuel Alcalanproducer: Samuel Riverantechnical director: Azael Saenz Less