Tuesday February 23, 2021
7:00 p.m.
KAUST Cinema
Limited registration
The Office of Enrichment programs is thrilled to invite you to a film screening and Q&A with the artist in residence at KAUST Julian Charrière on Tuesday, February 23, 2021.
Julian is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin whose work includes working in remote places with acute geophysical identities. He is now at KAUST as part of the third edition of the residency exchange artists-in-labs program. During three months, Julian will exchange and develop ideas at the Red Sea Research Center with Professor Francesca Benzoni.
He will introduce the audience to his film “Towards No Earthly Pole” (2019).
About the film
Glacial landscapes have never before had such a strong visual presence in popular culture, where they serve as prominent symbols of anthropogenic climate disturbance. Although few people have visited their remote geographies, glacial regions loom large in the collective imagination as a last stronghold and melting ideal of a fantasized reality. “Towards No Earthly Pole” was conceived in 2017 when Julian Charrière was invited aboard a Russian research ship as part of the first Antarctic Biennale.
The video footage for the film was recorded with self-developed technological equipment at night. Eerie sounds of cracking ice and water flowing remind us that this frozen landscape is very much alive, breathing, moving and constantly evolving. All of these elements combined underline an otherworldly presence and a scenario in which one begins to lose all sense of grounding or scale, highlighting that the Western human’s limited experience and, at times, falsely constructed perception of the polar regions is both reinforced and challenged.
About the artist
Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss artist born in 1987 in Morges, Switzerland, and based in Berlin, Germany. Charrière’s research-based work varies between photography, performance, intervention and sculpture. His artistic practice includes working in remote places with acute geophysical identities such as volcanos, ice-fields and radioactive sites. He investigates the relationship between human civilization and the natural landscape.
He has exhibited his work at museums and institutions worldwide, including the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne in Switzerland; Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo; The Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India; 12th Biennale de Lyon in France and at the 57th Venice Biennale in Venice.
About the artists-in-labs program
As part of KAUST Academic Affairs, the Enrichment Office’s mission is to enhance the student experience, expand student horizons and enrich the broader KAUST community.
To connect art and science, in 2016, KAUST started a partnership through the Enrichment Office with the artists-in-labs program (AIL) of ZHdK. The partnership brings a collaboration between scientists and artists to enhance the dialogue between art and science. It is co-financed by KAUST, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Since 2016, the artists-in-labs program brings artists and scientists together in an experimental framework to bring inspiring ideas to the public. It has brought the collaboration between artists and KAUST.
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