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Ice hunting on board the Usisog
19 February 2010
"...The man who was standing weighed these words and then erased them in the air before him with a slow fanning motion of his forefinger. He said that the jovenes could hardly be expected to apportion credence in the matter of the map. He said that in any case a bad map was worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveller a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside those instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. He said that to follow a false map was to invite disaster. He gestured at the sketching in the dirt. As if to invite them to behold its futility.”
The Border Trilogy: The Crossing Cormac McCarthy
Jens Skaerland on board the Usisoq – hunting ice. Something in the region of one million tons of ice breaks into the fjords around Narsaq each day.
Posted by Neville Gabie at 1:02 PMGuest Writer
Rebecca Geldard
Rebecca is a London-based art writer currently contributing to online and print publications including ArtReview, phillipsartexpert.com, Time Out and MAP. She is a London correspondent for Saatchi Online and her writing has also appeared on the Guardian Blog, in Asia Tatler and Modern Painters. Rebecca is on the advisory board of London artist-run Gallery Coleman and is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics).
Neville Gabie
Neville is developing new work for the Biennial. From the middle of February, he will be traveling to Greenland to 'harvest' a three ton block of ice, which will be shipped to Liverpool and relocated at Tatton Park. His experiment will continue in the grounds as he attempts to keep his ice frozen for five months within a bespoke unit employing solar panels and cool water.