This installation presents photographs of part of a 2503m ice-core drilled in 2005 at Dome Fuji in Antarctica.
Commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Latvia in Riga, for the exhibition "Conversations with Snow and Ice - observation/imagination in art and science," the Ice Core installation was presented in 2005/06, as part of a retrospective of the works of the snow and ice scientist Ukichiro Nakaya (1900-1962).
With cooperation of Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, National Institute of Polar Research in Japan, Takeo Hondo, Atsushi Miyamoto, Gorow Wakahama, and Fujiko Nakaya.
Ice Core
video installation
commissioned artwork for the exhibition "Conversations with Snow and Ice - observation/imagination in art and science"
[ group exhibition ]
- 2005. 11. - 2006. 1.
- "Conversations with Snow and Ice", Natural History Museum of Latvia / Riga, LATVIA
- 2008. 7. - 8.
- “Cape Farewell”, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo / Japan
- 2009. 7. - 9.
- “Ecology and Art - Thinking About the Earth Through Art: From Nearby to Far Away”,
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi / Japan - 2009. 12. - 2010. 1.
- “Earth: Art of a changing world”, Royal Academy of Arts / London, UK
- 2013. 4 - 5.
- "Kyotographie", Saigyo-an, Kyoto / Japan
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi / Japan
アイスコア・インスタレーション
『雪と氷との対話』展(ラトビア国立自然史博物館 2005)委嘱作品。
南極ドームふじで2005年に掘削された2503mの氷床コアの一部を撮影。
この作品は、雪氷学者・中谷宇吉郎(1900-1962)の回顧展の一部として、2005/06年にラトビア国立自然史博物館で開催された『雪と氷との対話ーobservation/imaginationー』展のために特別に制作されたものです。
協力：北海道大学低温科学研究所、国立極地研究所、本堂武夫、宮本淳、若濱五郎、中谷芙二子