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The Sun / Sunshine (2007) 26 Mar 2012 | 11:00 pm
In the near future, the Sun has entered its last phase and is dying. A mission is sent from Earth into space, with the aim of sending ‘a payload’ into the sun and hopefully restart it from the inside....
The Sun / Olafur Eliasson : Weather Project (2003) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:59 pm
An Englishman’s prerogative, to small talk about the weather. It is a Danish-Icelandic Artist’s prerogative to only install half a sun in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
The Sun / Solar Flares 26 Mar 2012 | 10:58 pm
Now that the ‘developed’ world is entirely dependent on software and electrical devices we can no longer look at space weather in the polar regions with awe, we must fear it for it will destroy our ci...
The Sun / Guilliaume Maraud : Twilight (2011) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:57 pm
1000 digitally manipulated versions of a single photograph played with a single sound saved 1000 times.
The Sun / Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller : The Sun of 1913 (2008) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:56 pm
The world’s first industrial-sized power plant was built in Maadi, Egypt in 1913. The artist’s Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller presented their research into these forgotten histories and a recreate...
The Sun / JG Ballard : Empire of the Sun (1984) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:55 pm
JG Ballard’s novel that chronicles a young British boy’s adolescence during the Second World War living under the Japanese occupation of Eastern China. The title is in reference to the etymological an...
The Sun / James Turrell : Roden Crator (1979) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:53 pm
Tunnelled through an extinct volcano in Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell’s Roden Crater is a monument to light and our perception of space. Akin to ancient summer solstice temples built for the worship of ...
The Sun / Ra 26 Mar 2012 | 10:52 pm
The ancient Egyptian sun god, who daily voyaged by solar boat from east to west through the heavens, like other ancient gods of creation worship of Ra by citizens ensured the god would perform their l...
The Sun / The Sun 26 Mar 2012 | 10:50 pm
IT’S A POPULIST RED TOP RAG, INIT MATE. At least 50% made up…
The Sun / Henri Matisse : Icarus (1947) 26 Mar 2012 | 10:48 pm
The mythological embodiment of man’s desire to take to the skies, Icarus’s hubristic flight on wings made from wax and feathers was foiled by the sun, causing him to plumet to his death in the Mediter...
