Antarctic Village

The first edition of the Biennial at the End of the World in Ushuaia City, Argentina . The event is a joint project between Argentina and Brazil and is actualized by the Argentinean Fundación Patagonia Arte y Desafío with the institutional support of the Fundação Memorial da América Latina from São Paulo, Brazil. The Biennial’s theme can be summarized as ”pondering at the end of the world, what other world is possible” (Pensar en el fin del mundo, qué otro mundo es posible). An aesthetic discourse articulated by linking art and politics with poetry, ecology and technology and announces the First Contemporary Polar Museum of Art, Technology and Environment of the End of the World, to be built in Tierra del Fuego. This year marks the start of the much-awaited ‘International Polar Year’, which will run until March 2009. During this period numerous international scientific experiments and expeditions will be conducted to gain a greater understanding of the roles the Polar regions play in Earth’s weather patterns and environmental state. Commissioned as a special project, Lucy and Jorge Orta will exhibit the installation ‘Antarctic Village’ and the film projection of their expedition in the historic Old Prison, one of the principal exhibition locations designated by biennale. From March through April the installations will be spread throughout Ushuaia City, and the artists will intervene the landscape including the shore of the Beagle Channel.