{"id":33419,"date":"2019-03-14T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33419"},"modified":"2019-03-12T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:47:31","slug":"pekka-niittyvirta-timo-aho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/pekka-niittyvirta-timo-aho\/","title":{"rendered":"pekka niittyvirta &#038; timo aho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33420\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33420\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Niittyvirta_Aho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Niittyvirta_Aho.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Niittyvirta_Aho-80x300.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Niittyvirta_Aho-274x1024.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This gave me chills. Can you guess what that blinding band of light represents?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The installation explores the the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is specifically relevant in the low lying island archipelago of Uist in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, and in particular to Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum &amp; Arts Centre in Lochmaddy where the installation is situated. The centre cannot develop on its existing site due to predicted storm surge sea levels.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This powerful light installation, titled <em>&#8220;Lines (57\u00b0 59\u2032 N, 7\u00b0 16\u2019W)&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>is a collaboration between Finnish artists\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niittyvirta.com\">Pekka Niittyvirta<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timoaho.org\/\">Timo Aho<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org\/\">Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum &amp; Arts Centre<\/a>. Heartbreakingly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\">designboom<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gave me chills. Can you guess what that blinding band of light represents? &#8220;The installation explores the the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,596,285],"tags":[480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33422,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419\/revisions\/33422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}