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NAgnes Meyer-Brandis trains a flock of astronauts
Photo: MOBILE MOON, Astronaut Training Method No. V, video still “Moon Goose Colony”, 2011 © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bild-Kunst. (Image courtesy the artist) Video: “Moon Goose Colony”, 2011 © Agnes Meyer-Brandis.
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Agnes Meyer-Brandis lives and works in Berlin. She comes from a background of both sculpture and new media art. Her award-winning work is at the experimental edge of art and science, exploring the zone between fact and fiction. Meyer-Brandis is the founder of the “Forschungsfloss FFUR / Research Raft for Subterranean Reefology”, a small institute whose chief aim is to explore and confirm subterranean phenomena and unknown lifeforms. She realized an artistic experiment in weightlessness in cooperation with the German Space Agency DLR.
“THE MOON GOOSE ANALOGUE: Lunar Migration Bird Facility” by Agnes Meyer-Brandis was commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and FACT, in partnership with Pollinaria and in coproduction with Z33. “The Moon Goose Colony, P1” is a Pollinaria project by Agnes Meyer-Brandis. “The Moon Goose Experiment” is part of the Curated Expediton No.1 by Capsula.
Since the total solar eclipse of August 2008, the German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis has been working on a project to train a flock of geese to fly to the moon. The project’s impetus came from the English bishop Francis Godwin’s 1638 book The Man in the Moone in which (you guessed it) moon geese tow a chariot into the sky. The first steps of Meyer-Brandis’ ongoing experiment were naturally to name each of 11 goose eggs after a famous astronaut or space character, and then to imprint the goslings onto herself as soon as they hatched. Since their fledgling years the birds have learned to fly in formation – but more impressively they have learned to handle space conditions like weightlessness and lack of oxygen in a special facility: a moon “analogue” or practice arena. Since 2011 they have been rehearsing their eventual space-flight in their home on a farm in Pollinaria, Italy. I (ew)
Photo: Moon Goose Experiment, 2008 © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bild-Kunst. (Image courtesy the artist)
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