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The project is a continuation of my other work that utilizes inflated rubber structures and sound transformed into visual movement. For the Migration Addicts exhibition in Venice I chose to use an iceberg as the inflated shape for several reasons first since icebergs actually migrate. In the Atlantic it is called the IRD Belt and about 90 percent of Canadian icebergs originate from Greenland - a 2－3 year Mmigration. I was also inspired about the recent story about two large icebergs off the coast of New Zealand, an occurrence that has not happened in over 75 years but immediately triggered our human skin deep desire for conquest and ownership when the Australians planted their flag and claimed the iceberg!
Even though these iceberg migrations have not officially been linked to global warming they are a reminder of it. In the past changes or migrations have occurred in societies that climate crises have played a role in, includes the demise of the Vikings during the little ice age at the beginning of the 1300s when Greenland cooled off enough to make travel there impossible and only 175 years ago when the Potato Famine, partly induced by climate change, caused the starvation of one million people in Ireland and triggered migration. We are still to see what changes and migrations the effects of global warming will trigger in the future and I find it especially appropriate to address the issue in the city of Venice that is notoriously threatened by the raising sea levels. It is with this in mind I chose to bring attention to what is in and under the water and to use these sounds to be the dictator of the movement of the piece.
On a social level the "iceberg" in summer in Venice symbolizes to me and many more fellow Migrating Addicts the well known feeling of being out of place and vulnerable as an immigrant to a new place.
Iceberg, Right Ahead, 2007
installation
site: Campo Santo Stefano
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