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the ecology of perception
Hart to Heart: reflection/réflexions
Interactive stereo 3D video installation
In an embattled northern watershed, a river takes us on a journey through human nature, wild nature, and leads us to… ourselves.
An interactive stereo 3D video installation inspired by a journey on the Hart River in the Yukon’s Peel watershed. In this place where human values in the land overlap and divide us, this journey ignites a question for urban and industrial culture:
how will we transcend our duality with the earth?
Hart to Heart: reflections is the first sketch created in 2015 in a series of visual, virtually tactile, and auditory meditations on the land and our relationship with it as an urban and industrial culture. Remote Sensibility VIII: the ecology of perception is the next iteration in development, incorporating the land, visual art and performance, with the insights of our elders and astronauts, in multi-screen installation. RSVIII opened at Yukon Arts Centre public gallery in December, 2019.
Directed, filmed and edited by marten berkman
Interactive design by Baptiste Bohelay
Sound design by Jordy Walker
Click here for a review of the installation which was part of the Mountain Art exhibit opening the 2015 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.
Other showings include In It, ISEA 2015, ALFF, DCISFF, and World Humanities Conference, Liege, Belgium
This installation is companion to a feature length documentary film of the same name also currently in development.
A commissioned project for the 30th anniversary of the Yukon Film Society, made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts and Government of Yukon.