{"id":13326,"date":"2024-06-03T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?post_type=projects&p=13326"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:59:56","slug":"galadriel-gonzalez-romero","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/verkefni\/galadriel-gonzalez-romero\/","title":{"rendered":"Galadriel Gonz\u00e1lez Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A Portal to the End of the World
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    Galadriel Gonz\u00e1lez Romero is a human being who uses art, research, folklore and earth-related research to explore the relationship between humans and ecosystems in times of climate disasters. By inviting other creatures from their ecosystem to collaborate, they create art that is rooted in the earth, art springs from, but also speaks into the wider context of the life that surrounds it. Furthermore, she, i.e. art, proposes ways to develop sustainable polyandry relationships, our post-apocalyptic reality.<\/em><\/strong>
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    \nA Portal to the End of the World is a series of exhibitions in three parts where I collect, in collaboration with soil, seeds, hidden people, v\u00f6lva, geophysicist and botanists, soil from Akureyri's Lystigar\u00f0. I help the soil to travel in time, to its past and future by heating it to 29.4\u00b0C over a longer period of time. This temperature is the highest measured temperature in Akureyri over time, but according to weather forecasts, there will be a typical summer peak around the year 2300.
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    \nObservations of this soil time-travel experiment in a greenhouse and research on the effects of warming on Icelandic tundra and grasslands allowed me to temporarily assume the role of the v\u00f6lva in the V\u00f6lusp\u00e1 \u2014 Iceland's story of the end of the world, which was written in the 10th century. century \u2014 and to compose four interconnected poetic sections related to a specific place in the Lystigar\u00f0ur in Akureyri. In the second part of this project, presented in this exhibition, this new doomsday prophecy is recited. We bear witness to the seed of a new story that will be planted into the local folklore.
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    \nWhen I return the soil to its original place in the amusement park, I will also plant a laurel seed \u2013 plant that I chose in collaboration with a hidden woman called P\u00eda. This seed does not grow in the climate that prevails in Iceland today, but global warming will enable it to grow in the garden and then it will testify that irreversible climate change has taken place in Akureyri. Soil and seeds will merge into an oracle that heralds the climate impact and the end of the world.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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    Galadriel Gonz\u00e1lez Romero is a human using art, research, speculative folklore, and ground-responsive investigation to explore relationships between humans and their ecosystem in an era of climate catastrophe. By knowing other things from their ecosystem as collaborators, they make art that is rooted in the ground it emerges from, but also speaks to the broader context of life around it and prophecies ways in which to develop sustainable multi-being intermediary relationships in our post-apocalyptic reality.<\/strong><\/em>
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    \nA Portal to the End of the World is a three chapter exhibition series where\u2014in collaboration with soil, a seed, a hidden person, a v\u00f6lva, a soil scientist, and botanists\u2014I gathered soil from the Akureyri Botanical Garden and assisted it to time travel to its past and future by heating it up to 29,4\u00b0C for a prolonged period of time. This is historically Akureyri\u2019s highest temperature, and, according to climate predictions, will become a typical daily maximum in the summertime around the year 2300.
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    \nObservation of the soil\u2019s journey in an incubator, and research into the effects of global warming on Icelandic tundra and grassland landscapes, allowed me to temporarily adopt the role of the v\u00f6lva (seer) in V\u00f6lusp\u00e1\u2014Iceland\u2019s own tale of the apocalypse, dating back to the 10th century\u2014and formulate four parallel stanzas: a prophecy relating to this specific spot in the Akureyri Botanical Garden. During this project\u2019s second chapter, presented in this exhibition, this new apocalyptic prophecy is uttered. We witness the seed of a new story that will soon be planted into the local folklore.
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    \nWhen I return the soil to its original spot in the botanical garden, I will plant in it a Laurus nobilis seed\u2014a plant I selected in collaboration with a Hidden woman named P\u00eda. This seed doesn\u2019t grow in Iceland\u2019s current climate, but when global warming causes it to sprout in the garden, it will signal an irreversible change in the climate of Akureyri. Together, soil and seed will become an oracle-portal to gather collective urgency and announce the climate apocalypse.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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    The world is ending.
    \nBelow,a seed splits open,
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    Triumphant, a sprout stretch towards the sun.
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    \nburrows away from the hot surface.
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    Grass grows longer and
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    \nThe seed becomes tree: a messenger.<\/p>\n

    Soil
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    \ngrass will grow far. <\/p>\n

    The tree will become tall: a witness
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    \nPlants, worms, humans, mushrooms, moss, elves, and soil. <\/p>\n

    Gather around.<\/p>\n

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