Holoturian - Ariel Guzik
Triscott, N. 2015. Holoturian - Ariel Guzik. Edinburgh Art Festival 30 Jul - 30 Aug 2015
Triscott, N. 2015. Holoturian - Ariel Guzik. Edinburgh Art Festival 30 Jul - 30 Aug 2015
| Creators | Triscott, N. |
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| Description | This new project, artwork and exhibition was curated by Nicola Triscott, Artistic Director of Arts Catalyst, and commissioned and produced by Arts Catalyst with Edinburgh Art Festival 2015. ‘Holoturian’ is an underwater resonance instrument designed by Guzik to communicate with whales and dolphins in the deep seas. For the last 10 years, the artist, musician, illustrator and inventor Ariel Guzik has searched for a way to communicate with whales and dolphins. Guzik’s project has encompassed the creation of underwater instruments, expeditions to contact whales and dolphins off the coasts of Baja California, Costa Rica and Scotland, sound recordings, and numerous fantastical drawings of this cetacean civilisation and underwater ships and gardens. Guzik’s extraordinary vision is to build a manned underwater ship – the Narcisa - with the intention of enabling encounters between humans and cetaceans as inhabitants of parallel civilisations, free from hierarchies or intentions of domination or subordination, and devoid of utilitarian or practical research interests. For this show, his first exhibition in the UK, commissioned by Arts Catalyst and Edinburgh Art Festival 2015, Guzik constructed a beautiful capsule, the Holoturian, designed to send a living plant and a string instrument for a period of time into the depths of the sea. Imagined and re-imagined in extraordinary drawings made by Guzik over the past decade, this ship has instrumentation, which expresses life, space, harmony and brightness as primary messages, and is dedicated to sperm whales and other deep ocean creatures. The installation was part of Edinburgh Art Festival's 2015 commissions programme, presenting new work by leading Scottish and international emerging and established contemporary artists, and will be displayed at Edinburgh’s gothic kirk Trinity Apse. |
| Year | 2015 |
| Web address (URL) | http://www.artscatalyst.org/holoturian |