Hollow earth art & recap
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The document discusses the revived interest in the hollow Earth theory, which posits that the Earth is hollow and capable of sustaining life. It highlights historical figures such as Edmund Halley and modern artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, who explore this concept through field studies and art installations. Expeditions continue to seek tangible evidence of a hollow Earth, with recent high-tech explorations being planned to locate its supposed entrance.
Hollow earth art & recap
- 1. 010405: Hollow Earth Theory (Revived) Field Studies 1 & 5 David Haines + Joyce Hinterding
- 2. David Haines + Joyce Hinterding Hollow Earth Theory (Revived) Field Studies 1 & 5 Hollow Earth Theory is nothing new in the whose novel Mt Analogue is all about history of ideas. The famous British seventeenth climbing an imaginary mountain. century astronomer, Edmund Haley believed that the inner earth was hollow and lit by a luminous atmosphere. Edgar Rice Burroughs Jules Verne wrote The Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864. It was with Vernes text that David Haines has been a practising artist wrote a cycle of novels set in the hollow earth. for over a decade, exhibiting in museums, Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of we began our own Pataphysical journey of discovery to imagine the interior of an inhabited festivals, and alternative exhibition the Earth as part of a series of journey novels. spaces, and has created installations for John Cleves Symmes, an American nineteenth hollow earth. This has been manifested as a series of ongoing field studies, in this case we galleries all over the world. Haines has century eccentric believed that the earth was been awarded several Australia Council open at the poles and that the interior of the have decided to show the phantom city and the upside down mountain climbing sequence. grants for various projects in the area of earth was inhabited. In 1906, William Reed New Media and Visual Arts, including a added his book Phantom of the Poles within We would rather not discuss too much about the way that these images have been made, residency at The Australia Councils Tokyo which he claimed to be able to prove his theory Studio. that the earth was not only hollow but able except to say that they are a collapsed universe to sustain life. There is it seems a long list of of image and sound making a combination of people who have set out to prove or discover digitally fabricated composites, field recordings or real time camera footage with minimal Joyce Hinterding has exhibited that the world is indeed hollow. In more recent extensively both nationally and times the Nazis where also curious and sent Dr intervention. internationally been including a number Heinz Fischer, an expert on infrared rays to the of international biennales. She has Baltic to photograph the British Fleet by turning Vimy Lane, Parap. Vimy Lane, Parap. been awarded several Australia Council GPO Box 28 Darwin NT, Australia 0801 GPO 28 Darwin NT, Australia 0801 his cameras upward and shooting across the grants for various projects in the area of hollow earth. New Media and Visual Arts, including a tel + 61 8 8981 5368 fax ++ 61 8981 5547 tel 8 8981 5368 fax 61 8 8 8981 5547 residency at The Australia Councils Green email: 24hrart@24hrart.org.au email: 24hrart@24hrart.org.au St Studio in New York. url: www.24hrart.org.au url: www.24hrart.org.au People are still mounting expeditions to find out if the earth is hollow. Worthy of a plot from the filmmaker Werner Herzog, an adventure Their collaborations have produced major company is mounting a high-tech expedition works that have been shown in Tasmania, to the Arctic Circle to locate the entrance of the Sydney, and Madrid and Sao Paulo, and inner earth complete with a Russian nuclear featured in the opening exhibition for the powered ice breaker. This type of adventure Australian Center for the Moving Image tourism seems to follow firmly in the footsteps and Federation Square in Melbourne. 24HR ArtArtassisted by thethe Commonwealth Government through the 24HR is is assisted by Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisoryfunding and advisory body, by the Northern Territory Arts Australia Council its arts body, by the Northern Territory Government through of the great Pataphysical author Reme Daumal NT Government through Arts NT and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, State and and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, Territory Governments. an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.