[spectre] HMKV Video of the Month: Agnes Meyer-Brandis: 42 - The Large Meteor T-R-A-P

[Inke Arns]

Dear Spectres,

in the series its "Video of the Month“ series HMKV presents current video works by international artists for the duration of one month each. In April, the exhibition "The Mechanical Corps. On the trail of Jules Verne" will open at HMKV (April 10, 2015).


This month we are featuring:

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Agnes Meyer-Brandis
42 - The Large Meteor T-R-A-P (Terrestrial Rerouting Array Pad)
DE 2014, video, 4:02 min. 

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42 - The Large Meteor T-R-A-P (Terrestrial Rerouting Array Pad) investigates the possibilities of calculating and steering a meteor safely down to Earth. 

On October 7th 2008 the first meteor ever to be predicted impacted in Sudan exactly on time. Many scientists are working on Near-Earth Object (NEO) studies, such as the “NEO Survey and Deflection Study“, or the “Neoshield“. They will try to find technologies and strategies to protect the Earth from asteroids and large meteor impacts. Slow push technologies and concepts such as the “Gravity Tractor“, “Mass Driver“ or “Space Tug“ will be explored as well as impulsive deflective technologies with nuclear explosive contact. 

42 is a new approach in the attempted control of meteors and their possible landing on our home planet. The technology is installed outside the city of Marrakesh, Morocco. An array of spiral antennae, extending deep below the earth’s surface, creates a magnetic hole in the earth’s atmosphere. Passing meteors attracted to the antennae are being caught, slowed down and hopefully descend into the magnetic hole. (Agnes Meyer-Brandis)

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Agnes Meyer-Brandis (*1973 in Aachen, lives and works in Berlin) studied at the Art Academy Maastricht, the Art Academy Düsseldorf and the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne. With her total concept „Forschungsfloß für Unterirdische Riffologie u. V.“ she develops a new artistic language and defines her role precisely as that of a researcher into poetics. 

www.ffur.de 
www.forschungsfloss.de

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Curated by Inke Arns

More information on the series can be found at:
http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2015/Video_des_Monats/2015_Video_des_Monats_April.php


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Dr. Inke Arns
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Agnes Meyer-Brandis: 42 - The Large Meteor T-R-A-P
HMKV, Dortmund
1 - 30 April 2015

The Mechanical Corps. 
On the Trail of Jules Verne
HMKV, Dortmund
11 April - 12 July 2015
Opening: 10 April 2015

Re-Discovery 4: 
Erik Bünger, Peter Rose, Katarina Zdjelar
Autocenter, Berlin
23 May - 20 June 2015
Opening: 22 May 2015

His Master’s Voice
La Panacée, Montpellier
20 June - 20 September 2015
Opening: 19 June 2015