thinkingblueskyagain


HOME THINKING BLUE SKY SKIES WHAT IS UP THERE? WHERE HAVE ALL THE GODS GONE? HOW TO TAME THE SKY? CORY ARCANGEL LISE AUTOGENA GASTON BACHELARD JAMES BENNING CORREGGIO GILLES DELEUZE SIMON FAITHFULL CAMILLE FLAMMARION WERNER HERZOG DEREK JARMAN GERHARD RICHTER JACQUES TATI JOELLE TUERLINCKX RICHARD WILSON PETER WEIR QUADRATURA WHAT OF OUR PLANETARY SKY? ABOUT REFERENCES	SKIES This section features a series of short essays addressing a diverse range of culturally and historically specific skies. The essays fall into two categories: some ask fundamental questions about the sky within contemporary culture and others explore specific images or accounts of the sky. However the two categories intertwine: questions are answered with reference to particular images and images are explored by drawing out fundamental questions. Historical periods are also mashed-up: Yuri Gagarin’s breaching of the heavens is compared to accounts of Flammarion's medieval missionary; Correggio's painting in Parma Cathedral is linked with Gemini IV's space documentation, and contemporary artist Joelle Tuërlinckx's sculptural blue holes are placed back into Paolo Veronese’s Christ Addressing a Kneeling Woman as if missing pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Read in conjunction these essays begin to sketch an image of our sky today, pin-pointing specific ways in which the sky is different from and similar to skies that have come before. All the essays are extracts from a larger research project.	Images (top to bottom): detail of a photograph taken from the International Space Station (Image Credit NASA); detail of a wood engraving from 'The Atmosphere' by Camille Flammarion (1888 edition)