Flyover

Flyover

Production country: 
us
Edition: 
2004
Format: 
installation

Flyover is a single-channel video work made from a sequence of aerial reconnaissance photographs produced in the mid-sixties to map the Antarctic. The pictures were shot from the bottom of a plane and include in the image itself a record of the time and where the picture was taken. The still images are accompanied by a voiceover reading the names given to the geographical areas. The images and text in Flyover are artefacts of a moment when a blank land was first harvested for information, a moment where the human urge to inscribe and name everything glided across thousands of miles of previously untouched ice.

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