past exhibition
Hauling Ice: Cryptid-Powered Transport of Glacial Offcasts
a new research project by Davis & Davis Research Labs
05.03.19 - 05.25.19
Opening
Reception: Friday, May 3rd, 7pm-10pm
Gallery hours Saturday 12pm-4pm
In
2008, a Scientific American blog quoted CUNY biologist Mike Hickerson
as saying that, due to global warming, sasquatches may be moving
north in search of cooler climates. In 2011, a NBC News story told of
eco-entrepreneur Georges Mougin’s plan to tow icebergs to
drought-stricken areas for drinking water.
According
to Davis & Davis, Hickerson is wrong about the sasquatch
migration motivation. West coast sasquatches, inspired by Mougin, are
actually moving north in order to tow icebergs back to
drought-stricken California.
For
the research phase of this project, Davis & Davis traveled to
Alaska and Newfoundland, Canada to study iceberg formation. They also
visited the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, California to study
sasquatch habits and habitat.
Davis
& Davis Research Labs have created their Elephant installation as
an experimental setup, featuring a 1/12 scale model animatronic
sasquatch rowing a small, wooden boat in a small wading pool with a
large, scale model iceberg in tow. A spring balance attached to the
tow rope will measure the force exerted by the rowboat upon the
iceberg.
Their
experiment will attempt to answer the question: "Can a sasquatch
tow an iceberg with a rowboat?”
Davis
& Davis Research Labs has been at the fraying edge of fringe
science since 1997 with exciting, original research in the areas of
Parapsychology, Ufology, Sexology, and now Cryptozoology. They have
presented their research projects at the Huntington Beach
(California) Art Center, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena,
California, The Black Dragon Society, Herbert Gallery, Newspace, the
I-5 Gallery, TELIC, and Gallery 207 in Los Angeles, California, the
Catherine Clark Gallery, the Yerba Buena Center and the Lab in San
Francisco, California, the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle,
Washington, EBC1 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and at ISEA2015 in
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Denise
Davis & Scott Davis are the principal researchers at Davis &
Davis Research Labs. Their research can be found online at
www.ddrl.us
