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Incoming / Richard Mosse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosse, Richard, photographer, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Middle East--Social conditions--Pictorial works.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions--Pictorial works.
- Video installations (Art)--England--London.
- Video installations (Art).
- Refugees--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- England--London.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Film stills.
- Documentary photographs.
- Photobooks.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Mack [2017]
- Summary:
- The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. Moving from footage of a live battle inside Syria, in which a US aircraft strafes Daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting DNA from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the Aegean island of Leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. This super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. The camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the bare life of stateless people.
- Notes:
- Includes essays by Richard Mosse and Giorgio Agamben.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The book includes film stills from "Incoming" by Richard Mosse, a three screen video installation, 52 minutes, 10 seconds, with sourround sound. The video work documents the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. The images are taken with a military camera designed to detect the human body from a distance of 30 km. The installation was commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery and can be seen there from February 15 to April 23, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9781910164778
- 1910164771
- OCLC:
- 966807221
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