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  • Wandering the Magnetosphere*
  • Ingrid Koenig (bio)

Navigation notes: These emergent drawings–excerpts from a visual essay–take up the complex network of impacts across physical forces entangled with bio-geo-political time. A key element for this work is a living cosmography to depict movement across time, and to visualize wandering on a planet, in the magnetosphere, and between the internal energy of Earth and the solar energy of the cosmos. Physicists say there are no things, there are only relations between things.

Q: Hello ancient stone - may I unfold you like a book? Do you carry a message from deep time? A: Yes, what you’re holding is not a thing, but a process.


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Drawing from Svalbard, Day 17 expedition, 2019

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Drifting on a rocky planet, between the internal energy of Earth and the solar energy of the cosmos–we live within a “cosmo-tectonic circulation” —Jerome Gaillardet, geo-chemist.


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Geocosmic Logic

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How Entropy is Time (detail)


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Magnetic Story

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Message From Deep Time 3


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Message From Deep Time 1

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Looping Matters 1 (Litli-Hrutur, Iceland)


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Looping Matters 2

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Mother Rock Waves (Miradalir Valley, Iceland)


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Mother Rock in Time

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Volcanic Logic (Miradalir Valley, Iceland)


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Sonic Lava (Miradalir Valley, Iceland)

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Waves Across Time (Miradalir Valley, Iceland)


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Disorientations

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Message From Deep Time 2


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Gravitational Thought

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Magnetic Thought (Miradalir Valley, Iceland)


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Distance Ladder Collapse

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Mattering Logic 3


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Mattering Logic 4

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How We Make Time into Space


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How Entropy is Time (detail 2–Svalbard)

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Ingrid Koenig

Ingrid Koenig is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. She was the inaugural Artist in Residence (2011 to 2021) at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator center, and co-organizes processes of collaboration between artists and physicists in a project called Leaning Out of Windows. Her studio and research practices traverse the fields of physics, social history, feminist theory, and narratives of science. Her drawings explore the complex phenomena of physics and involve intuitive responses to specific sites through fieldwork in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, Germany, Iceland, Arctic Circle art + science expeditions, and through collaborations with physicists. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Goethe Institute, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. She co-edited the recently published book, Leaning Out of Windows: An Art and Physics Collaboration (Figure 1 Publishing, 2023).

Footnotes

* Excerpts from Wandering the Magnetosphere–drawings by Ingrid Koenig, 2019 to 2023, and ongoing

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