Ambulante 2008 Trailer

 The working title for this project, ultimately developed in three moments in time: the artist's actual journey to Antarctica in February 2005; the Central Park musical based on that journey, which was presented and filmed at dusk on October 14 in the Wollman Rink; and the film made using footage shot on those two occasions. The artist and more than ten people set sail from the Port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the Southeast point of Argentina. The team embarked on a search for an unknown island and a unique solitary creature.
After weeks of sailing in hostile environment, facing a tremendous storm and getting stuck in the ice, the team finally found the island. After landing on the shore, they built a temporary sound and light station that was specially designed to translate the physical shape of the island into sound. The Morse code-like stream of sound that it produced was not unlike the unique vocal displays that animals use to communicate with one another. Therefore, the team hoped that it would call out to the elusive creature, an albino penguin.

France | 2006 | English | 22' | Color

Production: Corinne Castel, Melissa Dubbin
Sound: Francesca Grassi
Music: Joshua Cody, Elliot Sharp, Wollman Ice Rink Symphonic Orchestra

 

Pierre Huyghe (Paris, 1962) now lives and works in New York and Paris. In 2002 he received the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and in 2001 he received a Special Award from the Jury of the Venice Biennale. His typically complex and multidisciplinary projects include This is not a time for dreaming (2004), a film and marionette opera telling the story of Le Corbusier's architectural commission and Huyghe's own work at Harvard. Streamside Day-a public event, a film, and an exhibition that traced the formation of a burgeoning community located in the Hudson Valley that invented a local custom and celebration-was on view at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea in 2003. In 2006 he had a solo show at the ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and at the Tate Modern.  

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