Chris Wainwright

Robyn Hitchcock + KT Tunstall

On the Disko Bay voyage, 2008, Robyn Hitchcock wrote the song ‘There Goes The Ice’ after Chris Wainwright asked him to spell out ‘Here Comes The Sun’ with semaphore lights on the deck of the ship. Robyn took the song fresh to KT Tunstall in the next- door cabin and they recorded it there and then.

Lucy + Jorge Orta

In the work of Lucy + Jorge Orta, Vitrines and Windows on the World are focal points drawing our attention to a specific subject or issue. We usually find a photographic reference and a series of metaphorical objects inside or suspended from the structures. In these two works, the artists’ dphotographs from their expedition to the Peruvian Amazon are enlarged or fragmented; in the case of the antique Spanish window frame, whose doors and shutters open in an Alice in Wonderland voyage, revealing the different Amazon landscapes. The Vitrine makes reference to the artists’ longstanding research focus on the subject of water, containing bottles from their water purification projects in Rotterdam and Venice, as well as the iconic pierced gourds and containers.

David Buckland in Conversation with Chris Wainwright

In September 2008 Cape Farewell mounted its seventh expedition to the Arctic, taking a team of forty artists and scientists of Disko Bay on the west coast of Greenland to see the Jakobshavn Glacier, which is losing 20 million tons of ice every day. On the trip were artists Lori Anderson, Sophie Calle, misicians Jarvis Cocker, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Feist, Martha Wainwright and KT Tunstall, architect Sunand Prasad, poet Lemn Sissay, and Chicago-based filmmaker Peter Gilbert.

Marije de Haas

During the 2009 Cape Farewell trip to the Peruvian Andes and Amazon, Marije tracked the crew’s physical reaction to the various climate extremes they were put through: altitude, humidity, cold, heat, diet, exertion and wildlife. The results are logged on this chart showing the intensity of the crew’s experiences.