- Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Sean Coyle
PIPA, Performing Arts, Faculty Member
Dedicated to Iraqi asylum seeker Omid Masoumali, who self-immolated while in detention on Nauru Island (April 2016), this installation detains visitors's bodies at the threshold while withholding their view of a fiery figure wrapped in an... more
Dedicated to Iraqi asylum seeker Omid Masoumali, who self-immolated while in detention on Nauru Island (April 2016), this installation detains visitors's bodies at the threshold while withholding their view of a fiery figure wrapped in an emergency blanket who stands on the fossil cliffs on Maria Island looking into the rising sun.
'Island Icarus' was created for the Remanence exhibition, which examined how fire shapes the Tasmanian landscape and impacts on the psyche of people whose homelands are affected by its ravages.
'Island Icarus' was created for the Remanence exhibition, which examined how fire shapes the Tasmanian landscape and impacts on the psyche of people whose homelands are affected by its ravages.
