O Milk Project

O GPS mapea as vidas dos granxeiros Martins Treimanis e Zaiga Treimane

O Milk Project é un proxecto iniciado pola artista holandesa Esther Polak. Polak explora as posibilidades visuais do GPS para a narrativa documental. Do dossier de prensa de Milk Project:

(…) In one of her recent projects – AmsterdamREALTIME – [Esther Polak] recorded the daily routes taken by some of the participants over one week and projected them in real time into the gallery room.

In the exhibition Making Things Public in the ZKM Karlsruhe she introduces her latest work, MILKproject (…) Via GPS the MILKproject tries to capture the movements of milk from the Latvian farmer and milk transport driver to the Latvian cheese manufacturer and finally to the Dutch cheese merchant. The participants who are confronted with their own traces after completing their work give insights into their history and situation. In the end this sketched line Latvia – Holland with all its sections is representative of the many routes that are covered everyday in the international food business – a map that is redrawn every day.