Antarctic Biennale

The 1st ART expedition to the South Pole!

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THE ART WORLD EXPLORES NEW TERRAIN
"This exceptional voyage explores virgin territory for the art world. Adjusting the Venetian tradition of artists representing countries, the Antarctic Biennale isolates art in a region that is not owned by any nation." https://t.co/lHWcfeKKv4

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PENGUIN SELFIE OFFERS BIRD'S EYE VIEW
The best-dressed animals may also be the vainest — at least if their propensity for selfies is any indication. A new video shows two emperor penguins in Antarctica interacting with a camera left on the ice! https://t.co/jtP68s5y6w

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MARCH 7, 1912: IT'S AMUNDSEN

Even in his moment of triumph after reaching the South Pole, Amundsen felt he would have preferred to be planting his flag at the North Pole: "No man has ever stood at the spot so diametrically opposed to the object of his real desires."

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HISTORY OF ANTARCTICA

Captain James Cook invited the artist William Hodges to join his second voyage in search of Antarctica in 1772. This expedition brought back more images related to the anthropology, geography and zoology of Oceania than all prior navigations combined!

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WORLD WILDLIFE DAY
In 2018 it is celebrated under the theme “Big cats: predators under threat" but we'd like to show you the wild Antarctic species that also deserve our protection! Enjoy the video and turn on the music! #worldwildlifeday #iprotectbigcats https://t.co/gQmAsVEA32

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Space Specials Broadcast
III. VESTIBUL
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, a Brazilian sculptor based in New York, and Shama Rahman, British singer-songwriter, sitarist, storyteller, performance artist with her latest music album Truth to be told.
https://t.co/VlpcKkYszj

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At a certain point of our expedition last March we lost the sense of time. We couldn't take our eyes off these magnificent landscapes. Watch our video and feel this amazingly slow pace of life in the middle of nowhere! https://t.co/8bi4uSIOaR
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WORLD WHALE DAY
World Whale Day is a celebration of some of the planet’s most-fascinating, well-loved, and yet elusive creatures, looming large in the popular imagination but still in many ways a scientific mystery. Here are 6 facts about  amazing whales! https://t.co/E29o4Cp6e9

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“The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica is the light. It’s like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.”
JON KRAKAUER

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Juliana Cerqueira Leite:
"On a ship seasickness is a disagreement of your senses. The environment seems still: you see a still horizon, you see the still interior of the ship, the water doesn’t seem to be moving. But, the whole ship is rocking forward and side to side."

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Humans aren’t the only ones who need some extra attention. Look at this charming photo of a mother and father emperor penguin with their chick! And the photo of a seal pup kissing mom! And how about these two lovely albatrosses?..
#antarcticwildlife

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AB VISION CLUB, Miguel Petchkovsky:
"Crossing over from political thinking into artistic vision was the main objective of this project that has created a global creative window into the art, science, philosophy and cultural thinking."
#expedition #contemporaryart

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On January 19 the participants of international art expedition to the shores of Antarctica came to Moscow to join the round table and discuss the outcomes of the Antarctic Biennale project that took place in March 2017. Watch now! https://t.co/jD3jlqzvNI

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MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER WORLD
The images below are the first of creatures found in a previously unexplored region of the Antarctic seabed offering a fascinating glimpse of life in one of the most remote and pristine places on the planet. https://t.co/8RIDWWq2Xv #southpole

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Lou Sheppard
Artist, participant of the 1st Antarctic Biennale:
"In my practice I��ve been thinking about the ideas, working with the ideas of wilderness. Wilderness as a concept is really about a space that has no meaning or a space of the lack of meaning."

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AB VISION CLUB, Barbara Imhof:
"I want to burn into my brain a couple of panoramas. I stare for a long time at one section of the landscape which I like and I imagine how this image will stay in my memory for a long time. The landscape is breathtaking."
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#Antarctica #polar

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EARLY DAYS OF ANTARCTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Herbert Ponting is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole (1910–1913). He captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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ICE CAVE IN ZARYADYE PARK
Right now the commissioner and the leader of the 1st Antarctic Biennale Alexander Ponomarev is taking active part in the construction of an ice cave with a labyrinth that recreates the atmosphere of Yakutia, the coldest region in Russia.
#Zaryadye #art

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“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.”
ANDREW CHRISTOPHER DENTON

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AB VISION CLUB, Susmita Mohanty:
"I remember the inspiring Antarctic soundtrack on day 9 of our  expedition - the extraordinary glacial groans and iceberg calving we  listened to, while on Paradise Bay."
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