BREATHING CORAL - TOUR
Year: 2024 Type: Travelling Exhibition
BREATHING CORAL is an aesthetic journey into a macroscopic underwater world of coral existence and silent extinction.
In a close collaboration with international coral researchers, visual artist and documentary filmmaker Maja Friis has used macro optics to discover distinctive personas in coral species and to pass on stories about slow life, transformation and extinction from a place, which the naked eye can’t reach. BREATHING CORAL is a video and sound installation that creates a sensitive portrait of the planet’s disappearing coral individuals.
The corals have been filmed over several weeks. This thorough process has made it possible to follow their circadian daily rhythm and capture each animal’s unique personality and distinctive behaviours – as well as visually capturing responses to climate change stressors that haven’t been detected and captured in real time before.
The work is created in close collaboration with an international team of coral scientists: Michael Kühl, professor at the University of Copenhagen, Postdoc Elena Bollati, post.doc Cesar Pacherres, PhD Gabriel Ferreira and Post.doc Tom Schlesinger.
Charlotte Ammundsens Plads 3
1359 København K
Opening hours:
Friday 16th March
16.00 – 21.00
Saturday 17th March
09.00 – 22.00
EVENTS
Science café
Friday 16th march 15.00 – 16.00
In collaboration with GLOBE, University of Copenhagen, we invite you to join us for an informal conversation about research communication and the intersection between science and art.
Dronningemaen 30
5700 Svendborg
23. march – 9th of april
EVENTS
Coral Corner everyday at 11.00
Opening hours:
Everyday: 9.00-16.00
Krydsfeltet
Allegade 2
3000 Helsingør
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Saturday – Sunday 10.00 – 16.00
EVENTS
Thursday 18th April 17.00 – 19.00
EVENTS
Talk
Friday 30th August 12.00 – 12.40
Josephine Klougart and Maja Friis in a conversation about art & nature
Thursday October 24th 19.30
Conversation between artist Maja Friis and coral researcher Elena Bollati
about the process behind Being Coral and the Art-Science collaboration.
Tuesday October 29th 19.00-20.30
Can films make us see the world with new eyes – perhaps even those of an octopus?
Join us as CPH:DOX program director Mads K. Mikkelsen gives a talk on film’s
ability to challenge our perspectives – generously illustrated with clips that remind us we are not alone on this planet.
Thursday October 31st 17.00-18.00
Meet artist Maja Friis in the exhibition as she takes guests on a
walk through her beautiful, sensory video portraits
of the planet’s vanishing corals.
DROP-IN FAMILY WORKSHOP: MAKE CORALS OUT OF CLAY
Saturday November 2nd 10.00-16.00
Join a creative underwater journey with clay and organic forms when ceramic artist Anne Mette Edeltoft
invites you to an inspiring family workshop in connection with the exhibition “Being Coral”.
Sunday November 3rd 16.00-17.00
Meet artist Maja Friis in the exhibition as she takes guests on a
walk through her beautiful, sensory video portraits
of the planet’s vanishing corals.
Wilhelm Meyers Allé 10
8000 Aarhus C
Opening hours:
Every day: 10.00 – 16.00
Credits
Visual artist: Maja Friis
Scientists: Michael Kühl, Elena Bollati, Cesar Pacherres, Gabriel Ferreira, Tom Schlesinger
Cinematographer, Denmark: Anders Nydam, Brian Curt Pedersen
Cinematographer, Israel: Tom Schlesinger
Construction of scenography: Morten Just Hansen
Composer and sounddesign: Martin Dirkov
Text and poem: Pernille Kaufmann
Colorist: Anders Vadgaard Christensen
Producer: Sofie Mønster
Thanks to
Breathing Coral is supported by
