Mark Pezinger Books
Stefan Karrer: Calypso Cave Black Forest Library Nr. 5 is about the Calypso Cave on Malta, a magical place where the beautiful nymph Calypso kept Odysseus a prisoner of love for seven years.
Softcover, 10.5 × 14.6 cm, 224 pages
Edition: 800, design: Astrid Seme with Liza Borovskaya-Brodskaya, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-903353-08-4
€16
On October 6th 2020, Instagram celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Shortly after the social photo sharing app was launched in October 2010, Calypso's Cave on the Maltese island of Gozo was closed off to the public after a partial collapse due to geological movement. [read more]
While the “stabilisation and conservation project” announced by the Ministry of Gozo is still awaiting completion, the cave on the opposite side of the bay has become increasingly popular amongst the social media community – and is now also being tagged – as #calypsocave.
Swiss media artist Stefan Karrer approaches Calypso Cave through its photographic reception on social media platforms. In doing so he has tracked down a comedy of errors and humorously shows us how social platforms influence and change our travels and the way we consume landscape and its cultural heritage. [show less]
