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Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas
Andrew Peckler
Artwork 2018
Installation photograph from the ‘Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. In the middle, Andrew Pekler’s sound and print media installation 'Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas’.
Artwork: Andrew Pekler, Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas (2018). Digital and print media, sound, books. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Andrew Peckler Title Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas Date 2018 Materials Digital and print media, sound, books Dimensions Dimensions variable Credit Courtesy of the artist

Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas was commissioned for the exhibition Fourth Worlds: Imaginary Ethnography in Music and Sound. Produced with the Support of Jeu de Paume and DICRéAM, CNC.

Phantom Islands are artefacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but their existence has never been ultimately verified. Poised somewhere between cartographic fact and maritime fiction, they haunted seafarers’ maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas interprets and presents these imaginations in the form of an interactive map which charts the sounds of a number of historical phantom islands.

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