The Lagoon Cycle

bys Helen Mayer Harrison / Newton Harrison, Carter Ratcliff, Michael de Certeau, Thomas W. Leavitt

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Author(s)

The Harrison Studio (Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison), Carter Ratcliff, Michael de Certeau, Thomas W. Leavitt

Publication, year

New York : Office of University Publications, Cornell University, 1985

Scope

110 Pages, illustrated, 23,5 x 29,5 cm.

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Extensive catalog of a mural in over 50 parts, by the Harrison studio, partially commissioned by and in the collection of John Kluge, Metromedia.This 360 foot long and eight foot tall mural is an extended semi-autobiographical dialogue, with stories and anecdotes, plays between two characters, a ‘Lagoon Maker’ and a ‘witness’, and serves to establish the philosophical basis for the ecological argument in many later works. It looks at experimental science, the marketplace and megatechnology, finally posing the question, “What are the conditions necessary for Survival” and concluding that it is necessary to reorient consciousness around a different database.

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Person as subject

The Harrison Studio (Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison)

Location

Cabinet 23 - 2: Kunst, natuur en landschap