Esther Kokmeijer
conceptueel - documentair - cross-over - ecologie - wetenschap & techniek
In my work as an artist, explorer and designer, I mainly focus on the ‘Global Commons’. A term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains. Global commons include the earth’s shared natural resources, such as the high oceans, the atmosphere and outer space and the Antarctic in particular.
For many of my works I collaborate with scientists and other professionals from different background. I’m interested in how art and science can reinforce each other. With these collaborative projects I am hoping to open up alternative routes to lucid and ‘visual comprehension’ of scientific research.
Seasonally I work as an expedition photographer and polar guide, in the Arctic and Antarctic. I’m the founder of ANTARKTIKOS, a magazine that is solely dedicated to Antarctica and brings together art and science, (antarktikos.com), co founder of Cosmic Water Foundation (cosmicwaterfoundation.com) and part of the art collective If Paradise Is Half As Nice (ifparadiseishalfasnice.com).
