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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.

NCCA crater fieldThe 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.

NCCA crater fieldThe Moon Goose Colony (MGC), videostill,
HD, 20min, 2012
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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.


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

 

NCCA crater fieldHatched eggs, May 12th 2011, Pollinaria
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MOON ANALOG TRAINING

 

crater marmin sibirjiak streetMoon Analog Training, May 23th 2011
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ASTRONAUT TRAINING



NCCA crater sketch by AMBAstronaut Training with V-Flight Formation tool
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THE TEAM



crater marmin sibirjiak streetAMB with Juri, Svetlana and Kaguya
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HABITATh

 

stone stories workshop group pictureFirst Moon Goose Habitat
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LIFE ON EARTH


MonnWalkWorkshop Flyer by AMBLife 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 Italian Space Agency


Other geese breeder:
Marion Bohn
SV Deutscher Gaensezuechter

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all images copyright by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst 2011  
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