Cartography of Night I

2020, 10min, 2K/FHD, single channel video, b&w, 1:1 / 1:1.85

When the sun sets on Earth, the rovers on Mars awake and move according to their planned routes. They ascertain their own locations through photographs. Cartography of Night I is a map-film constructed from photographs of the Mars surface taken by these rovers. Each image and set of coordinates corresponds to an actual location on Mars, and feels out the world of the night. The first map consists of data photographed through a Camera by Curiosity, which still lives on Mars. The second map consists of data taken through a camera by Opportunity and Spirit, both of which are currently ‘dead’ and no longer in action. This film, which will continue to proliferate, comprises nights with and without documentation. These two form a kind of spectrum, so that on nights with movement, images are constantly generated. On nights without movement, nothing is recorded. I generate a specific duration of darkness to match the number of nights without documentation. A moving-image-map that the Mars rovers produce bit by bit through the feelers they put out into the dark.

Installation view @ Space Onsu, 2020
Minha Park’s solos exhibition “Cartography of Night”
            

Installation view
                   

Installation view

Poster design by Moonsick Gang


Cartography of Night
Minha Park Solo Exhibition production credit

Directed and Edited by Minha Park
Camera Dongsuk Yu
Lighting Taeho Kim
Cast Sukjung Kim / Eungyo Son / Seahyun Lee
Choreographer Sukjung Kim / Eungyo Son / Seahyun Lee / Eynjung Lim
Sound production  Inchul Cho
Research Assistant Yereum Nam / Suyun Lee
Translation Yeajung Park
Coding & Programming Jin Jung
Glass production Sejin Song
Design Moonsick Gang
Spatial Design Soosung Lee
Equipment Kyungho Kim
Support Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Production year 2019-2020

Stills from Night Operators


Night Operators choreography map 

for three Mars rover operators


Installation view