related art works 2
Melting Men by Nele Azevedo
Melting Men is a series of art installations from the Minimum Monument project created by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo. Since 2005, Azevedo has been setting up her Melting Men is various countries around the world. Although originally intended as a critic of the role of monuments in cities, environmentalists around the world are adopting her work as climate change art. We caught up with Nele Azevedo to ask her for a bit more information about her popular art installations.
Here is interview
VINYL by Lyota Yagi
“VINYL” is a record made of the ice.
Lyota Yagi makes vinyl records from ice. First he models a record in resin then puts water and freeze it. After water turns into ice the record is ready for playing.
Yes, record is listenable but the sounds in slowly disappearing cause ice is melting. While ice is melting sound becomes gradually dimmer.
In our point of view “VINYL” by Lyota Yagi has really strong artistic concept. First of all, making music with ice is quite novel and interesting idea. Second, the disappearing sound and temporal state of installation could be interpreted as limitation of natural resources and our lives. Everything has its end.
As a parallel between our project and “VINYL”, in “Experiment Arctic” ice acts as a controller for medium too. On the other hand, frozen water plays an important role in the concept.
Some more projects related to Polar Regions:
- Capefarewell is a research project where art is one part of it.
http://www.capefarewell.com
- Lutz Fritsch is making art with throghing a snow ball from Antarctis to Arcic:
http://www.lutz-fritsch.de/Fritsch/Lutz_Fritsch_Schneeball.html
