Research Catalog

Title

Incoming / Richard Mosse.

Author

Mosse, Richard

Publication

• [London] : Mack, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
• Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.
• MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. Moving from footage of a live battle inside Syria, in which a US aircraft strafes Daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting DNA from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the Aegean island of Leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. This super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. The camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the bare life of stateless people.

Subject

• Mosse, Richard, 1980-
• Refugees > Middle East > Social conditions > Pictorial works
• Refugees > Mediterranean Region > Social conditions > Pictorial works
• Video installations (Art) > England > London
• Refugees > Social conditions
• Video installations (Art)
• Bürgerkrieg
• Dokumentarfotografie
• Flucht
• Flüchtling
• Thermografie
• Video-Installation
• Artists' books
• England > London
• Mediterranean Region
• Middle East

Genre/Form

• Film stills.
• Documentary photographs.
• Photobooks.
• Pictorial works.
• Artists' books – Great Britain – 21st century.

Note

• Includes essays by Richard Mosse and Giorgio Agamben.
• The book includes film stills from "Incoming" by Richard Mosse, a three screen video installation, 52 minutes, 10 seconds, with sourround sound. The video work documents the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. The images are taken with a military camera designed to detect the human body from a distance of 30 km. The installation was commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery and can be seen there from February 15 to April 23, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

MEMZ (Mosse) 18-1586

ISBN

• 9781910164778
• 1910164771

OCLC

966807221

Author

Mosse, Richard, artist.

Title

Incoming / Richard Mosse.

Publisher

[London] : Mack, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- writer of supplementary textual content.

Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Research Call Number

MEMZ (Mosse) 18-1586