Shinyshinycloud: Narrative of Landscape

This is the title of paper for ISEA in Instanbul in 2011 and sums up many of the notions and concerns of the shinyshinycloud projects.

  Extreme elements of weather has provided an ongoing dialogue about the interactions with the environment forming a narrative of the landscape that Dr Lisa Anderson has explored through references to the past associations of place and it’s story created by the cultural and weather interactions.

This project shinyshinycloud documents, questions and plays with our relationship to the environment and has formed the basis for several residencies and fellowship/visiting artist programs undertaken internationally. The shifts explored detail past tales and magic, past weather events and future possibilities in the stories of these events forming the new architecture, identity, culture and landforms.

  In 2007 Dr Anderson was the artist-in-residence on the Kapitan Khlebnicov a working Russian Icebreaker on expedition through the Northwest Passage, and further to Inuit communities, science/weather stations and the last point of contact for the High Arctic. The film work, drawings, recordings, paintings and a video installation work The Truth About Snodomes which has been included in several international curatorial programs pushes into our ideas about place, extreme environment shifts causing and shifting identity.

Many Images have been developed for this work including  IVU, a print shown in Ends of the Earth at Bicha Gallery. http://www.bicha.co.uk

Portrait of Istanbul
This work was created while
Dr Anderson was visiting
Istanbul for ISEA and the Istanbul
Biennale.

Dr Anderson spent and afternoon
 with a group of women sharing culture
and the views of their mosque and hamman
which was undergoing restoration.