The Galileo Affair
The Galileo Affair (duration: loop)
Ivan Riascos
Found slides and slide projectors
In 1609 Galileo began championing the idea of Copernican heliocentrism (the Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun), based on the observations he made through a telescope he had helped to develop. His position met with some opposition within the Catholic Church and astronomers, with Galileo being investigated and prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition in 1615. Many view it as the inevitable clash of two ideologies of science and religion. Still, research has shown that it was more complicated than just a clash of two modes of thinking. At the time, a rigid social and political system was the context. This theory challenged the established physics and theology of its time.
This body of work takes its name, The Galileo Affair, from this contrast which continues today.
The slides were found in an abandoned notebook in a Central Florida neighborhood where I reside. I believe the book belonged to Spanish Pentecostals, who used them for as a presentation for a sermon. There were over two hundred slides labeled into categories such as churches, idols, Jesus, crucifixion, universe, paganism, nature, etc.
I took all the slides and separated them into two categories: secular and non-secular. I then edited them down to 80 slides for each category. I am purposely clashing two ideologies with no specific order or narration to reflect humanity over the years. We are currently amid a worldwide mass vaccination for the Covid-19 Pandemic, racial tensions, economic division, and extreme political viewpoints with many of us trying to come to terms, reason, or an understanding of our place in society.
Ivan Riascos
Found slides and slide projectors
In 1609 Galileo began championing the idea of Copernican heliocentrism (the Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun), based on the observations he made through a telescope he had helped to develop. His position met with some opposition within the Catholic Church and astronomers, with Galileo being investigated and prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition in 1615. Many view it as the inevitable clash of two ideologies of science and religion. Still, research has shown that it was more complicated than just a clash of two modes of thinking. At the time, a rigid social and political system was the context. This theory challenged the established physics and theology of its time.
This body of work takes its name, The Galileo Affair, from this contrast which continues today.
The slides were found in an abandoned notebook in a Central Florida neighborhood where I reside. I believe the book belonged to Spanish Pentecostals, who used them for as a presentation for a sermon. There were over two hundred slides labeled into categories such as churches, idols, Jesus, crucifixion, universe, paganism, nature, etc.
I took all the slides and separated them into two categories: secular and non-secular. I then edited them down to 80 slides for each category. I am purposely clashing two ideologies with no specific order or narration to reflect humanity over the years. We are currently amid a worldwide mass vaccination for the Covid-19 Pandemic, racial tensions, economic division, and extreme political viewpoints with many of us trying to come to terms, reason, or an understanding of our place in society.
