agnes-meyer-brandis//THE MOON GOOSE COLONY



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INTRO Th

The Moon Goose Colony (MGC) is based on the Moon Goose Experiment (MGE), which took place in Siberia in 2008. The project aims to breed, imprint and raise Moon Geese, in order to travel with them.

With the help of imprinting (see Konrad Lorenz), the artist is able to built up a very close relation ship to the moon geese and can teach these endagered specie, how to find safer migration routes around all space junk to the moon and later on fly together.

The Moon Goose Experiment (MGE), project background
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THE MOON GOOSE COLONY - Short Film Th
In documentary film "The Moon Goose Colony" the artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis develops an ongoing narrative based on the book "The Man in the Moone", written by the English bishop Francis Godwin in 1638, in which the protagonist flies to the Moon in a chariot towed by ‘moon geese’. Meyer-Brandis has actualised this concept by raising eleven moon geese from birth in Italy, giving them astronauts’ names, imprinting them on herself as goose-mother, training them to fly and taking them on expeditions and housing them in a remote Moon analogue habitat.	The Moon Goose Colony (MGC), videostill, HD, 20min, 2012 - click on the image to go to the MGC webside -	>>> more here: THE MOON GOOSE COLONY

BREEDINGTh

Breeding took 29 days in our COSMO incubator, the artificial breeding machine.During these 30 days, the eggs had to be turned around 180 degree three times a day, as well as special cooling periods two times a day.

Moon Goose Eggs, St. Emillia, Italy, 2011
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HATCHINGTh

Hatched eggs, May 12th 2011, Pollinaria
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MOON ANALOG TRAINING

Moon Analog Training, May 23th 2011
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ASTRONAUT TRAINING

Astronaut Training with V-Flight Formation tool
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THE TEAM

AMB with Juri, Svetlana and Kaguya
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HABITATh

First Moon Goose Habitat
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LIFE ON EARTH

Life on Earth
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LINKSTh
The Moon Goose Colony P1 is a Pollinaria project by Agnes Meyer-Brandis. Konrad Lorenz / Imprinting The Moon Goose Experiment Conservation activities for endangered migration birds Italian Space Agency Other geese breeder: Marion Bohn SV Deutscher Gaensezuechter
all images copyright by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst 2011


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