I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIDNIGHT / I WOULD LIKE TO BE SKY

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Artwork Description:

Who determines the protocol for looking at the sky? Like moss and fungi, animals and plants, and indeed most living beings, the sky does not have borders. It moves and is part of a larger system that includes the moon, the sun, and the stars. MIDNIGHT is a companion project of SKYWORLD/CLOUDWORLD, a more extensive series by Amelia Winger-Bearskin. MIDNIGHT continues to explore themes of a communication network throughout the skies using video, musical compositions, and physical installations. The artist was inspired to make this work when she heard a politician lay claim to the “universal ethical protocol” for looking at the sky. This led Amelia to contemplate various notions of owning the sky: the laws that treat airspace as territory or an extension of the land, the regulations governing what kinds of frequencies we can emit across the open air, the geographic information systems whose satellites we can see if the night is clear enough. This series of work includes large-scale multichannel video installations at museums, live opera performances with video, a short film, digital artworks, and large-format prints.

Project Collaborators:

Video, Photos, Music and Singing by the artist/director: Amelia Winger-Bearskin