In February 2015, Alessandro Carboni took part as a guest artist and expedition assistant in the Extreme Environments program of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, an experimental educational initiative based on learning through exploration. During the expedition, students and researchers explored endangered ecosystems to collect environmental data, later transformed into new media artworks aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues.
Carboni’s project focused on the application of the EM Tools method within the karst mountains of Phong Nha, Vietnam—an extraordinary and extremely fragile landscape. The exploration was designed in collaboration with members of the British Cave Research Association, who had only discovered these caves a few years earlier. Access to the site is regulated by Oxalis, the sole authorized operator, in order to protect the ecological integrity of the area.
The Phong Nha caves represent one of the last untouched places on the planet, a unique ecosystem inhabited by plant and animal species found nowhere else. Through the practice of the body as a mapping tool, Carboni translates the experience of the landscape into performative action, reflecting on the role of bodily perception in processes of knowledge and representation of territory. More info.

FULL PROJECT HERE