Of Whales is an installation by Wu Tsang I had the pleasure of working on. It premiered at the 2022 Venice Biennale and was later featured at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, the SFMOMA Hass Atrium in San Francisco, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
I directed and animated COSMOS, a 26 minutes long sequence repeated 8 times through this 6 hours long looping installation.
Composers: Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda
Horns: Tapiwa Svosve, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Miao Zhao
Harp and vocals: Ahya Simone
Creative technologist: Ferdinand Dervieux
3D artist: Aby Batti
Sky Box: Daniel Balage
Lead VFX artist and additional modeling: Alexandra Radulescu
VFX artist: Camille Petit
COSMOS sequence directing and animation: Abel Kohen
Sound design: Nicolas Bredin
Music spatialization: Dave Rife and Gabe Liberti
Additional integration: Small by MacGuff Vincent Gutman, Marine Le Borgne, Florient Salabert
Produced by ATLAS V—Arnaud Colinart
Virtual production by ALBYON
With support from VIVE Arts; VIA Art Fund; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Antenna Space, Shanghai; Cabinet, London; and LUMA Foundation
Here are some short excerpts from the sequence: