VIDEO: Study for Solaris by Thomas Mulcaire

South African born artist, Thomas Mulcaire’s 2007 video piece, Study for Solaris, is a sublime visual voyage across planet earth’s southern most continent overlying the South Pole, Antartica. The piece was filmed between Dec 2006 – Feb 2007 onboard the South African research ship SA Agulhas en route from Cape Town to Neumayer Bukta and RSA Bukta, and on surface and air transport in Dronning Maud Land within 200km of SANAE and TROLL bases.  Study for Solaris is stunning in it’s composition and movement and offers a deep meditation on sound, silence, water, land and sky – a stark contrast to the human drama of city life.

Study for Solaris debuted at the Govett-Brewster Museum in Taranaki, New Zealand, in an exhibition called New Nature curated by Rhana Devenport. It’s next screenings will be during the inaugural Johannesburg Art Fair from March 13-16, 2008 and as part of the Arts Unlimited show, which will take place during the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, June 2008. Watch the video!

Study for Solaris is an ITASC production for the International Polar Year.  Email Thomas.