Imagining Antarctica: Two Cosmic Pivots - Jerusalem at the South Pole

 

IMAGING ANTARCTICA

Antarktis - Vorstellung und Wirklichkeit

Nordico - Stadtmuseum Linz

20 June 1986 - 31 August 1986

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Two Cosmic Pivots: Jerusalem at the South Pole^[16] This environmental artwork juxtaposes the pivot point at the South Pole around which our planet rotates with Jerusalem, a pivot point from which spiritual energies radiate from the three Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Alexenberg collected earth from two sites in Jerusalem that span two millennia, from the Western Wall where the Temple stood to the college Mercaz Harav founded by Israel’s first chief rabbi Kook. This mixture from the past and future was placed at the South Pole for the exhibition “Imagining Antarctica” at the Nordica Stadtmuseum Linz, Austria, in 1986.