William King, ‘Early Settler’ (2010)
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Trevor Paglen
Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.
Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. In 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI was launched into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.
The Last Pictures Artifact.
Some of the images on the disc.
EchoStar XVI launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, November 21st 2012.
Trevor Paglen, ‘The Last Pictures’ (2012)
Ken Burns
‘The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God’, a film by Ken Burns and Amy Stechler Burns.
They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them “Shakers.”
Willem de Rooij
Willem de Rooij, ‘Route langs 18 hoeken’ (Route Along 18 Corners) (1993)
A brochure setting out a route along 18 corners of galleries and exhibition spaces on the ground floor of the Stedelijk Museum building. The work was made before the building was renovated from 2004 – 2012 and depicts floors and walls that have since changed.
Jeremy Deller
‘The Battle of Orgreave’ (2001) by Jeremy Deller.
A large scale performance re-enacting a confrontation between the police and striking miners from the 1984–85 miners strike.