stomach contents XXL

Vending machine filled with plastic toys that have been ingested by Laysanalbatrosses in the Pacific Ocean. The objects were found in the bolus of dead albatrosses on Midway and Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, stomach contents XXL, 2014, plastics, metal, height: 145 cm]

Fotos: Alexander Burzik

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HAPPY WORLD OCEAN DAY!

[Swaantje Güntzel, Spring cleaning / Fårö (Sweden), Persona Beach, 2011, intervention]

Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe

Realized during an Artist Residency at Bergmangårdarna på Fårö (Sweden).

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#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #worldoecanday #worldoceanday2025 #fårö #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #performance #intervention #beach #personabeach #ingmarbergmann #bergmangårdarna #bergmangårdarnapåfårö #sweden #schweden #putzfrau #springcleaning #frühjahrsputz #artistresidency #artistinresidence #felsen #rocks #cleaninglady #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel

Mary Kelly's Lacunae (2023) at the 2024 Whitney Biennial. One of the pieces that stuck with me. The artist, in her 80s, collages her personal calendars, which show dates of many recent friends' deaths, with drawings made from ash.

The deaths are both startling and take over the calendar month visually and emotionally, but also a constant and repeating presence. Is there comfort in the pattern?

More on the work: https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/whitney-biennial-2024-even-better-than-the-real-thing-mary-kelly/

#death #foundart #conceptualart #contemporaryart

Things the Golden Records (#Voyager) don´t show - or how I transmitted a sanitation truck into space long before ESAs Blue Danube Waltz

Golden Record / image No. 117

When I was an Artist-in-Science at the European Space Agency - ESA / ESOC in #Darmstadt in 2022 I mainly focussed on our waste culture and how we brought this culture into space (#orbitaldebris). At the same time, I also looked at how we have been turning a blind eye to the waste we produce for decades and continue to do so today. I found it extremely revealing to see that back in 1977, when #NASA made a selection of images to supply the data collection stored on the #GoldenRecords which were designed to inform possible #extraterrestials about the existence of the earth and its inhabitants, the images described many aspects of human existence, but left the reality of our modern life, such as the production of waste in large parts unnoticed.

Which is why I decided to change that and send an extra image into space to be understood as addition to the collection of the 116 diagrams and pictures generated by NASA in 1977 : On October 20th, 2022 the image of a sanitation truck (#JamaicaBay, #NY) from the year 1973 was uplinked through the tracking network of European Space Agency (#ESA) in the direction where the “Golden Records” attached to the NASA Voyager space probes are currently traveling in interstellar space.

We will now see what the extraterrestials will make of it. A sanitation truck floating through space to the beat of the Blue Danube Waltz.

ESA / #BlueDanubeWaltz: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_transmits_the_Blue_Danube_Waltz_into_deep_space

[Swaantje Güntzel, Golden Record/image No. 117, 2022, color photograph, 29.5 x 23 cm]

Installation view "Swaantje Güntzel INSTANT PARADISE" 25.5. - 13.8.2023, Villa Dessauer.
Fotos: Tobias Hübel
Image sanitation truck: EPA / Alamy Stock Foto

#art #conceptualart #deepspace #space #sanitationtruck #waste #sanitationtruck

CrossBirds (Artwork)

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SMART 1 / crash site

Replica of a work by the painter Donato Creti (1671-1749) from the series ‘Astronomical Observations’ (1711), which was commissioned by the artist - painted and minimally altered by a copyist. The copyist added a small shadow to the depiction of the moon that refers to the crash site of the lunar probe SMART 1 (ESA), which was deliberately destroyed in 2006 after a mission lasting several years. The outlines are based on a photograph taken by NASA's lunar probe ‘Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’, which captured the crash site.

The work was realized in the frame of an Artist-in-Science Residency at European Space Agency - ESA / ESOC in Darmstadt in 2022, hosted by Kultur einer Digitalstadt e.V..

[Swaantje Güntzel, SMART 1 / crash site, 2022, oil on canvas, 51 x 35 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel
Foto crash site: P. Stooke/B. Foing et al 2017/ NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #womenartists #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #painting #malerei #astronomie #astronomy #donatocreti #smart1 #crashsite #mond #moon #astronomicalobservations #copyist #kopist #esa #nasa #mondsonde #lunarprobe #artistinscience #lunarreconnaissanceorbiter #artistinscienceresidence #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #artistresidency #esoc #darmstadt #kultureinerdigitalstadt #spacedebris #orbitaldebris