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The Bone (2019)
VR experience
Approximate duration: 15’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bone is a virtual reality interactive experience enabling the audience to be inside the skull of a wild salmon. Floating in the middle, a pair of otoliths will reveal the salmon's voice reflections as they grow interactively, accompanied by a sound design including a Sámi Yoik specially dedicated to this animal. These reflections relate to ethical and ecological questions regarding farming, domestication and inter-species coexistence with Atlantic Salmon, from an eco-philosophical and indigenous perspective. This artwork is part of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with respect to different tensions: the insertion, current aquaculture and impact of Pacific and Atlantic salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources; the coexistence and disappearance of stories and ancestral knowledge both of origin and destination in the contemporary context.

The Bone has been commissioned by Screen City Biennial 2019, produced by Interactive Media Foundation in cooperation with Artificial Rome in Berlin, Germany.


BIO

Michelle-Marie Letelier (b. 1977, Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, photographs, videos and drawings encompass orchestrated transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Her work juxtaposes different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.

Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, among others: CNB Contemporánea (Buenos Aires); Monumento a Los Héroes (Bogotá); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).


CREDITS
Idea and Concept: Michelle-Marie Letelier
Creative Directors: Ina Krüger, Dirk Hoffmann
Executive Producers: Diana Schniedermeier and Daniela Arriado
Script: Michelle-Marie Letelier & Martin Lee-Mueller
Art Direction VR: Robert Werner
3D Artist: Christian Rambow
Technical Lead: Thorsten Sperling
Programming: Dennis Timmermann
Sound Design: Christian Barth, Julian Ferreira da Silva
VR Project Management: Florian Köhler
Salmon's character voice: Martin Lee-Mueller
Yoik singer: Ánde Somby
Skull: Bergen University (UiT) Natural History Museum
Scanning: Bergen Academy, courtesy of BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Scientific advice: Professors Anne Karin Hufthammer, Arild Folkvord, Karin Limburg, Karin Pittman
& Johnny Magnussen
Research advice: Prof. Harald Gaski, Ánde Somby, Sápmi Center for Contemporary Art, Karolin Tampere and Daniela Arriado
Venue partners: Kolumbus

The Bone (2019)
VR experience
Approximate duration: 15’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bone is a virtual reality interactive experience enabling the audience to be inside the skull of a wild salmon. Floating in the middle, a pair of otoliths will reveal the salmon's voice reflections as they grow interactively, accompanied by a sound design including a Sámi Yoik specially dedicated to this animal. These reflections relate to ethical and ecological questions regarding farming, domestication and inter-species coexistence with Atlantic Salmon, from an eco-philosophical and indigenous perspective. This artwork is part of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with respect to different tensions: the insertion, current aquaculture and impact of Pacific and Atlantic salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources; the coexistence and disappearance of stories and ancestral knowledge both of origin and destination in the contemporary context.

The Bone has been commissioned by Screen City Biennial 2019, produced by Interactive Media Foundation in cooperation with Artificial Rome in Berlin, Germany.


BIO

Michelle-Marie Letelier (b. 1977, Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, photographs, videos and drawings encompass orchestrated transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Her work juxtaposes different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.

Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, among others: CNB Contemporánea (Buenos Aires); Monumento a Los Héroes (Bogotá); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).


CREDITS
Idea and Concept: Michelle-Marie Letelier
Creative Directors: Ina Krüger, Dirk Hoffmann
Executive Producers: Diana Schniedermeier and Daniela Arriado
Script: Michelle-Marie Letelier & Martin Lee-Mueller
Art Direction VR: Robert Werner
3D Artist: Christian Rambow
Technical Lead: Thorsten Sperling
Programming: Dennis Timmermann
Sound Design: Christian Barth, Julian Ferreira da Silva
VR Project Management: Florian Köhler
Salmon's character voice: Martin Lee-Mueller
Yoik singer: Ánde Somby
Skull: Bergen University (UiT) Natural History Museum
Scanning: Bergen Academy, courtesy of BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Scientific advice: Professors Anne Karin Hufthammer, Arild Folkvord, Karin Limburg, Karin Pittman
& Johnny Magnussen
Research advice: Prof. Harald Gaski, Ánde Somby, Sápmi Center for Contemporary Art, Karolin Tampere and Daniela Arriado
Venue partners: Kolumbus

The Bone (2019)
VR experience
Approximate duration: 15’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bone is a virtual reality interactive experience enabling the audience to be inside the skull of a wild salmon. Floating in the middle, a pair of otoliths will reveal the salmon's voice reflections as they grow interactively, accompanied by a sound design including a Sámi Yoik specially dedicated to this animal. These reflections relate to ethical and ecological questions regarding farming, domestication and inter-species coexistence with Atlantic Salmon, from an eco-philosophical and indigenous perspective. This artwork is part of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with respect to different tensions: the insertion, current aquaculture and impact of Pacific and Atlantic salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources; the coexistence and disappearance of stories and ancestral knowledge both of origin and destination in the contemporary context.

The Bone has been commissioned by Screen City Biennial 2019, produced by Interactive Media Foundation in cooperation with Artificial Rome in Berlin, Germany.


BIO

Michelle-Marie Letelier (b. 1977, Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, photographs, videos and drawings encompass orchestrated transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Her work juxtaposes different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.

Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, among others: CNB Contemporánea (Buenos Aires); Monumento a Los Héroes (Bogotá); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).


CREDITS
Idea and Concept: Michelle-Marie Letelier
Creative Directors: Ina Krüger, Dirk Hoffmann
Executive Producers: Diana Schniedermeier and Daniela Arriado
Script: Michelle-Marie Letelier & Martin Lee-Mueller
Art Direction VR: Robert Werner
3D Artist: Christian Rambow
Technical Lead: Thorsten Sperling
Programming: Dennis Timmermann
Sound Design: Christian Barth, Julian Ferreira da Silva
VR Project Management: Florian Köhler
Salmon's character voice: Martin Lee-Mueller
Yoik singer: Ánde Somby
Skull: Bergen University (UiT) Natural History Museum
Scanning: Bergen Academy, courtesy of BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Scientific advice: Professors Anne Karin Hufthammer, Arild Folkvord, Karin Limburg, Karin Pittman
& Johnny Magnussen
Research advice: Prof. Harald Gaski, Ánde Somby, Sápmi Center for Contemporary Art, Karolin Tampere and Daniela Arriado
Venue partners: Kolumbus

The Bone (2019)
VR experience
Approximate duration: 15’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bone is a virtual reality interactive experience enabling the audience to be inside the skull of a wild salmon. Floating in the middle, a pair of otoliths will reveal the salmon's voice reflections as they grow interactively, accompanied by a sound design including a Sámi Yoik specially dedicated to this animal. These reflections relate to ethical and ecological questions regarding farming, domestication and inter-species coexistence with Atlantic Salmon, from an eco-philosophical and indigenous perspective. This artwork is part of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with respect to different tensions: the insertion, current aquaculture and impact of Pacific and Atlantic salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources; the coexistence and disappearance of stories and ancestral knowledge both of origin and destination in the contemporary context.

The Bone has been commissioned by Screen City Biennial 2019, produced by Interactive Media Foundation in cooperation with Artificial Rome in Berlin, Germany.


BIO

Michelle-Marie Letelier (b. 1977, Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, photographs, videos and drawings encompass orchestrated transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Her work juxtaposes different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.

Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, among others: CNB Contemporánea (Buenos Aires); Monumento a Los Héroes (Bogotá); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).


CREDITS
Idea and Concept: Michelle-Marie Letelier
Creative Directors: Ina Krüger, Dirk Hoffmann
Executive Producers: Diana Schniedermeier and Daniela Arriado
Script: Michelle-Marie Letelier & Martin Lee-Mueller
Art Direction VR: Robert Werner
3D Artist: Christian Rambow
Technical Lead: Thorsten Sperling
Programming: Dennis Timmermann
Sound Design: Christian Barth, Julian Ferreira da Silva
VR Project Management: Florian Köhler
Salmon's character voice: Martin Lee-Mueller
Yoik singer: Ánde Somby
Skull: Bergen University (UiT) Natural History Museum
Scanning: Bergen Academy, courtesy of BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Scientific advice: Professors Anne Karin Hufthammer, Arild Folkvord, Karin Limburg, Karin Pittman
& Johnny Magnussen
Research advice: Prof. Harald Gaski, Ánde Somby, Sápmi Center for Contemporary Art, Karolin Tampere and Daniela Arriado
Venue partners: Kolumbus

The Bone (2019)
VR experience
Approximate duration: 15’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bone is a virtual reality interactive experience enabling the audience to be inside the skull of a wild salmon. Floating in the middle, a pair of otoliths will reveal the salmon's voice reflections as they grow interactively, accompanied by a sound design including a Sámi Yoik specially dedicated to this animal. These reflections relate to ethical and ecological questions regarding farming, domestication and inter-species coexistence with Atlantic Salmon, from an eco-philosophical and indigenous perspective. This artwork is part of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with respect to different tensions: the insertion, current aquaculture and impact of Pacific and Atlantic salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources; the coexistence and disappearance of stories and ancestral knowledge both of origin and destination in the contemporary context.

The Bone has been commissioned by Screen City Biennial 2019, produced by Interactive Media Foundation in cooperation with Artificial Rome in Berlin, Germany.


BIO

Michelle-Marie Letelier (b. 1977, Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, photographs, videos and drawings encompass orchestrated transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Her work juxtaposes different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.

Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, among others: CNB Contemporánea (Buenos Aires); Monumento a Los Héroes (Bogotá); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).


CREDITS
Idea and Concept: Michelle-Marie Letelier
Creative Directors: Ina Krüger, Dirk Hoffmann
Executive Producers: Diana Schniedermeier and Daniela Arriado
Script: Michelle-Marie Letelier & Martin Lee-Mueller
Art Direction VR: Robert Werner
3D Artist: Christian Rambow
Technical Lead: Thorsten Sperling
Programming: Dennis Timmermann
Sound Design: Christian Barth, Julian Ferreira da Silva
VR Project Management: Florian Köhler
Salmon's character voice: Martin Lee-Mueller
Yoik singer: Ánde Somby
Skull: Bergen University (UiT) Natural History Museum
Scanning: Bergen Academy, courtesy of BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Scientific advice: Professors Anne Karin Hufthammer, Arild Folkvord, Karin Limburg, Karin Pittman
& Johnny Magnussen
Research advice: Prof. Harald Gaski, Ánde Somby, Sápmi Center for Contemporary Art, Karolin Tampere and Daniela Arriado
Venue partners: Kolumbus

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Michelle-Marie Letelier – Outline for The Bonding

outline for the bonding

Michelle-Marie Letelier (CL)

outline for the bonding

Michelle-Marie Letelier (CL)

outline for the bonding

Michelle-Marie Letelier (CL)

outline for the bonding

Michelle-Marie Letelier (CL)

outline for the bonding

Michelle-Marie Letelier (CL)

Outline for The Bonding (2019)
16mm film transferred to HD, stereo sound
5’21’’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bonding will be a film documentation of an interaction between the artist and a farmed salmon, during its 2.5 year programmed life. This artwork is the focus of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern hemispheres in relation to salmon aquaculture. Letelier has worked with fishermen and scientists from the University of Bergen (UiB), in order to research the history of salmon aquaculture and current technologies, as well as to understand ethical and political contexts. Together with the UiB palaeontology department, they extracted otoliths from farmed salmons; unique crystals that serve as a chemical diary of a fish. Letelier then documented this process with 16mm film, reflecting on how the microscopic crystals of the film material arrange themselves under a photochemical process. This outline aims to translate the techno-antiseptic Cartesian environment constructed for a captive salmon through a grainy, imperfect 16mm film aesthetic. It is accompanied by an extract from a conversation with Sámi artist Ánde Somby in Tromsø, 2019.

Outline for The Bonding (2019)
16mm film transferred to HD, stereo sound
5’21’’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bonding will be a film documentation of an interaction between the artist and a farmed salmon, during its 2.5 year programmed life. This artwork is the focus of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern hemispheres in relation to salmon aquaculture. Letelier has worked with fishermen and scientists from the University of Bergen (UiB), in order to research the history of salmon aquaculture and current technologies, as well as to understand ethical and political contexts. Together with the UiB palaeontology department, they extracted otoliths from farmed salmons; unique crystals that serve as a chemical diary of a fish. Letelier then documented this process with 16mm film, reflecting on how the microscopic crystals of the film material arrange themselves under a photochemical process. This outline aims to translate the techno-antiseptic Cartesian environment constructed for a captive salmon through a grainy, imperfect 16mm film aesthetic. It is accompanied by an extract from a conversation with Sámi artist Ánde Somby in Tromsø, 2019.

Outline for The Bonding (2019)
16mm film transferred to HD, stereo sound
5’21’’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bonding will be a film documentation of an interaction between the artist and a farmed salmon, during its 2.5 year programmed life. This artwork is the focus of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern hemispheres in relation to salmon aquaculture. Letelier has worked with fishermen and scientists from the University of Bergen (UiB), in order to research the history of salmon aquaculture and current technologies, as well as to understand ethical and political contexts. Together with the UiB palaeontology department, they extracted otoliths from farmed salmons; unique crystals that serve as a chemical diary of a fish. Letelier then documented this process with 16mm film, reflecting on how the microscopic crystals of the film material arrange themselves under a photochemical process. This outline aims to translate the techno-antiseptic Cartesian environment constructed for a captive salmon through a grainy, imperfect 16mm film aesthetic. It is accompanied by an extract from a conversation with Sámi artist Ánde Somby in Tromsø, 2019.

Outline for The Bonding (2019)
16mm film transferred to HD, stereo sound
5’21’’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bonding will be a film documentation of an interaction between the artist and a farmed salmon, during its 2.5 year programmed life. This artwork is the focus of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern hemispheres in relation to salmon aquaculture. Letelier has worked with fishermen and scientists from the University of Bergen (UiB), in order to research the history of salmon aquaculture and current technologies, as well as to understand ethical and political contexts. Together with the UiB palaeontology department, they extracted otoliths from farmed salmons; unique crystals that serve as a chemical diary of a fish. Letelier then documented this process with 16mm film, reflecting on how the microscopic crystals of the film material arrange themselves under a photochemical process. This outline aims to translate the techno-antiseptic Cartesian environment constructed for a captive salmon through a grainy, imperfect 16mm film aesthetic. It is accompanied by an extract from a conversation with Sámi artist Ánde Somby in Tromsø, 2019.

Outline for The Bonding (2019)
16mm film transferred to HD, stereo sound
5’21’’
Courtesy of the artist

The Bonding will be a film documentation of an interaction between the artist and a farmed salmon, during its 2.5 year programmed life. This artwork is the focus of the ongoing project Transpose, which explores the relationship between Northern and Southern hemispheres in relation to salmon aquaculture. Letelier has worked with fishermen and scientists from the University of Bergen (UiB), in order to research the history of salmon aquaculture and current technologies, as well as to understand ethical and political contexts. Together with the UiB palaeontology department, they extracted otoliths from farmed salmons; unique crystals that serve as a chemical diary of a fish. Letelier then documented this process with 16mm film, reflecting on how the microscopic crystals of the film material arrange themselves under a photochemical process. This outline aims to translate the techno-antiseptic Cartesian environment constructed for a captive salmon through a grainy, imperfect 16mm film aesthetic. It is accompanied by an extract from a conversation with Sámi artist Ánde Somby in Tromsø, 2019.

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