{"id":2208,"date":"2023-10-20T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/us\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2024-01-27T04:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:09:35","slug":"the-swamp-observatory-at-the-serenissima-east-exhibition-centre-for-contemporary-art-znaki-czasu-torun-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"The Swamp Observatory at the Serenissima East exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toru\u0144, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two from four of the Swamp Observatory<\/a> instruments are on display at the SERENISSIMA EAST – an international contemporary art exhibition, curated by Krzysztof Stanis\u0142awski and Arvydas \u017dalpys at the Centre for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toru\u0144, Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of the exhibition refers to Serenissima, or the Most Serene, that was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but also the Republic of Venice. More: on the SERENISSIMA EAST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swamp Observatory installation plays with the idea of the return of the swamp. Two figures presented at the SERENISSIMA EAST are made of peat\u2014decomposed and carbonized vegetation and organic matter found in peat bogs. As an altered sensorial organism, the installation acts beyond exclusive human control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olfactory Crevasse is a lung-shaped entity suspended from the ceiling. Forming several cavities that visitors can explore with their sense of smell, it provides an opportunity to discover mischievous scents that simultaneously allure and repel, which were created with smell researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Time Stack consists of seven layers of memory that mark seven millennia of Lithuanian peatlands. Peat bogs are the archives of Earth: in their anaerobic medium they perfectly preserve spores, pollen, insects, plants, and even human bodies. Just as peat is a keeper of environmental information, so does the Time Stack open up layers of shared planetary memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swamp Observatory (2020):
Concept: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, architecture: Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117, fabrication: Rytis Urbanskas, Simona Ka\u010dinskait\u0117, research: Nikola Boji\u0107, processing programming: Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, AI module: Jonas Kubilius, smell: Jurga Katakinait\u0117-Jakubauskien\u0117 and Reda Valentinavi\u010dien\u0117, producer: MIT Climate Visions, scienti\ufb01c advisors: J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117, Vesta Aleknavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Onut\u0117 Grigait\u0117. Special thanks: Gintaras Rapkauskas, Sigita Kantautien\u0117, Remigijus Daubaras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swamp Observatory (2020) was commissioned by ZKM for the\u00a0 Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics, curated by Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour with Martin Guinard. Supported by Arts at MIT and Philip Khoury, Associate Provost for the Arts, UAB Durpeta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Wojtek Szabelski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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