{"id":3989,"date":"2011-04-29T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2022-03-13T04:42:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T11:42:24","slug":"mars-was-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/2011\/04\/29\/mars-was-a-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars was a Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HD Video, 2011<br>Video work in collaboration with Markus Lantto. A remote and unidentified landscape slowly sweeps in front of the camera while we hear the word exchange between the two artists. The conversation reflects on ideas of journey, maps, dislocation and the difficulty in the attempt to carry out a long distance dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; I remember being transfixed by the first lander image to show the horizon of Mars. This was not an alien world, I thought. There were rocks and sand drifts and a distant eminence, as natural and unselfconscious as any landscape on Earth. Forever after, Mars would be a place.&#8221;<br>Carl Sagan, <em>Cosmos<\/em>, 1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-hondartza-fraga wp-block-embed-hondartza-fraga\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3sm75MpUTa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/2011\/04\/29\/mars-was-a-place\/\">Mars was a Place<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Mars was a Place&#8221; &#8212; Hondartza Fraga\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/2011\/04\/29\/mars-was-a-place\/embed\/#?secret=EA3WALNVjt#?secret=3sm75MpUTa\" data-secret=\"3sm75MpUTa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Mars was a Place (with Spanish subtitles)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibition history<\/strong><br>2012 Selected for Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York<br>2012 <em>That Uncertain and Fragile Centre<\/em> (solo show), GreySpace Galleries, Leeds<br>2012 Shortlisted for Woolgather Art Prize, Leeds, 2012<br>2011 Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Official-Selection_web-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2643\" title=\"Official-Selection_web\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Official-Selection_web-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Official-Selection_web.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HD Video, 2011Video work in collaboration with Markus Lantto. A remote and unidentified landscape slowly sweeps in front of the camera while we hear the word exchange between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}