{"id":1656,"date":"2011-01-18T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2011-08-31T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:16:00","slug":"ii-aquilon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"II. Aquilon"},"content":{"rendered":"

VESSELS II “AQUILON” : New Zealand International Arts Festival <\/span><\/strong>| <\/span><\/strong><\/span>2010<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Festival: New Zealand International Arts Festival<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
Location: <\/span>Museum of Wellington City & Sea \u2013 Wellington Museums Trust<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
Dates: 26 February – 18 April 2010<\/span><\/address>\n<\/div>\n
Media: Glass water vessels, metal frame, burnt ash, gold leaf, sound, light, digital animations<\/span><\/address>\n
Dimensions: 4000mm x 7000mm<\/span><\/address>\n

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VESSELS \u00a9 2010\u00a0Daniel K. Brown<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
Music \u00a9 2010 Mark K. Johnson<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
<\/a><\/span>Digital animation assistance: Johann Nortje<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
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<\/a><\/span><\/span>VESSELS<\/span><\/a> was a world premier interactive multimedia installation commissioned by <\/span>Museum of Wellington City & Sea \u2013 Wellington Museums Trust <\/span><\/a>for the 2010 <\/span>New Zealand International Arts Festival<\/span><\/a>. It consists of four movements: I. Vessel, II. Aquilon, III. Tidings, and IV. Innocence<\/span><\/p>\n

VESSELS was inspired by Dante<\/a>\u2019s early-14th<\/sup> century epic poem, Divine Comedy<\/em><\/a>, which predicted that directly opposite Jerusalem in the great oceans of the southern hemisphere lies an island, above which shines a constellation of four stars in the shape of a cross. Atop this island sits the original Garden of Paradise. The mythological location of this island is where New Zealand now lies. According to Dante, an angel in the form of a divine white bird eternally pilots vessels of souls from the underworld to the island shores. Ripples of light emanate from the vessels, so radiant that the eye can barely endure them.<\/p>\n

In the second movement, ‘Aquilon’, (which means north-west wind), reflections of the wind and water converse with each other in song – first in echoes and imitation, and then evolving into a dialog of queries and answers on the duality of life and afterlife. As the movement comes to a close, it revisits the main theme from the first movement and foreshadows the themes of the third movement. (Duration 5.41)<\/span><\/p>\n

Purgatorio, Canto 4, Lines 55-60<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>
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\u2018To the low shores mine eyes I first directed,<\/address>\n
Then to the sun uplifted them, and wondered<\/address>\n
That on the left hand we were smitten by it.<\/address>\n
The Poet well perceived that I was wholly<\/address>\n
Bewildered at the chariot of the light,<\/address>\n
Where ‘twixt us and the AQUILON it entered.\u2019<\/address>\n
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The installation was composed of 33 vessels of water suspended upon the central atrium wall of the museum<\/span>, illuminated by spotlights from above. The vessels are arranged in seven lines of five, with two missing. The wall forms a backdrop upon which a myriad of water reflections emanate from the vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/address>\n

The movements of visitors and the overtones of the music created vibrations within the vessels and resulted in changing patterns of water ripples above. <\/span><\/span>This interactive work represents the threshold separating land and sea, light and darkness, time and eternity \u2013 the intermittent zone between life and afterlife. The piece is activated by the touch of music and the touch of visitors, witnesses to the world of souls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Original music by <\/span>Mark K. Johnson <\/span><\/a>established the sounds of a ghost vessel silently approaching the shore, and then eternally receding once again. The music contained the whispers of the tide; the sounds of the sea repeating in endless cycles; the haunting echoes of a ship\u2019s bell in the distance, warning of obstacle<\/span><\/span>s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition Construction and Project Management: Workshop e Ltd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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