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Prosthetic Mythologies
Author(s) -
Davies Kate,
Vercruysse Emmanuel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.706
Subject(s) - mythology , wilderness , folklore , ecology , power (physics) , factory (object oriented programming) , environmental ethics , history , geography , sociology , ethnology , art history , archaeology , philosophy , biology , computer science , classics , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The forest wilderness of Kielder in Northumbria is one ofEngland's remotest areas. Sharing an ecology similar to much of northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Canada, it shares none of its native culture or folklore. Only planted in the 1920s, the conifer forests are relatively recent ‐ a graft on the natural landscape. Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse of LIQUID FACTORY describe how their site‐specific performance piece sought out the psychological power of the forest, embuing it with ‘Prosthetic Mythologies’. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.