Koester, Joachim
Nordenskiöld and The
Ice Cap
The search of the Finnish-Swedish explorer Nils Nordenskiöld
(1832-1901) for the temperate hidden heartland in the Greenland ice cap where
Norse settlers were believed to have survived was conducted in expeditions
during 1870 and 1873. Koester’s eponymous slide installation superimposes text fragments from Nordenskiöld's unpublished diaries on images of glacial landscapes.
14 slides are illustrated here, accompanied by two essays. The first essay, Of Reduction and Hyperbole by Lars Bang Larsen considers Koester’s
ice narratology, and the second, Images Of Ice and Thought by Anders
Kreuger needs no further explanation. The book concludes with a selection of
pertinent quotations, some inevitable (Spufford) and some pleasantly surprising
(Malevich, Pynchon).
Space Poetry: Copenhagen, 2005
Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. 72
pages, 19.5 x 14 cm
ISBN 87-7603-034-2
(€19.50)
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